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Pricing and Production Flexibility: An Empirical Analysis of the U.S. Automotive Industry
By: Antonio Moreno and Christian Terwiesch
We use a detailed data set from the U.S. auto industry spanning from 2002 to 2009 and a variety of econometric methods to characterize the relationship between the availability of production mix flexibility and firms’ use of responsive pricing. We find that production... View Details
Keywords: Empirical Operations Management; Flexibility; Pricing; Automotive Industry; Production; Price; Management; Analysis; Auto Industry; United States
Moreno, Antonio, and Christian Terwiesch. "Pricing and Production Flexibility: An Empirical Analysis of the U.S. Automotive Industry." Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 17, no. 4 (Fall 2015): 428–444.
- 2012
- Working Paper
Got Local Food? Understanding the Fresh Produce Supply Chain
By: Baris Ata, Deishin Lee and Mustafa H. Tongarlak
- March 21, 2022
- Article
Are the Risks of Global Supply Chains Starting to Outweigh the Rewards?
By: Willy C. Shih
The conflict in Ukraine is only the latest jolt to global supply chains. Disruptions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, climate-related events, and geopolitical tensions were already undermining their rationale. As companies rethink sourcing, they will have to consider... View Details
Keywords: Supply Chain Management; Supply Chain; Distribution; Globalization; Manufacturing Industry; Consumer Products Industry; United States; Asia; Europe
Shih, Willy C. "Are the Risks of Global Supply Chains Starting to Outweigh the Rewards?" Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (March 21, 2022).
- April 2024
- Teaching Note
Harvard University and Urban Mining Industries: Decarbonizing the Supply Chain
By: Shirley Lu and Robert S. Kaplan
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 123-076. View Details
- 2006
- Working Paper
Cross-Functional Alignment in Supply Chain Planning: A Case Study of Sales and Operations Planning
In most organizations, supply chain planning is a cross-functional effort. Functional areas such as sales, marketing, finance, and operations traditionally specialize in portions of the planning activities, which results in conflicts over expectations, preferences, and... View Details
Oliva, Rogelio, and Noel Watson. "Cross-Functional Alignment in Supply Chain Planning: A Case Study of Sales and Operations Planning." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 07-001, July 2006. (Revised October 2006, July 2008, February 2009.)
- 15 Mar 2023
- Podcast
How to upgrade the community college talent supply chain
What will it take to get two-year institutions and employers on the same page? Joe Fuller joins his Managing the Future of Work co-chair and podcast co-host Bill Kerr to discuss the project’s research on this critical workforce partnership. View Details
- 10 Jun 2022
- News
Lessons From Henry Ford About Today’s Supply Chain Mess
- 23 Feb 2021
- News
COVID-19 Shines New Light on Working Conditions in Supply Chains
- 2019
- Working Paper
Improving Working Conditions in Global Supply Chains: The Role of Institutional Environments and Monitoring Program Design
By: Jodi L. Short, Michael W. Toffel and Andrea R. Hugill
Activism seeking to improve labor conditions in global supply chains has led transnational corporations to adopt codes of conduct and monitor suppliers for compliance, but it is unclear whether these formal organizational structures raise labor standards. Drawing on... View Details
Keywords: Monitoring; Supplier Relationship; Sustainability; Sustainability Management; Sustainable Operations; Sustainable Supply Chains; NGO; Globalization; Corporate Accountability; Operations; Supply Chain; Supply Chain Management; Labor; Working Conditions; Business Processes; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Performance Evaluation; Safety; Risk and Uncertainty; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Electronics Industry; China; Indonesia; India; Bangladesh
Short, Jodi L., Michael W. Toffel, and Andrea R. Hugill. "Improving Working Conditions in Global Supply Chains: The Role of Institutional Environments and Monitoring Program Design." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-001, July 2016. (Revised September 2019. Formerly titled "Code Contingencies: Designing Monitoring Regimes to Promote Improvement in Supply Chain Working Conditions" and "Beyond Symbolic Responses to Private Politics.")
- 06 Sep 2006
- Working Paper Summaries
Cross Functional Alignment in Supply Chain Planning: A Case Study of Sales & Operations Planning
Keywords: by Rogelio Oliva & Noel Watson
- 2024
- Working Paper
Second- versus Third-party Audit Quality: Evidence from Global Supply Chain Monitoring
By: Maria R. Ibanez, Ashley Palmarozzo, Jodi L. Short and Michael W. Toffel
Capitalizing on the superior credibility and flexibility and potential lower cost of external assessments, many global buyers are relying less on their own employee (“second-party”) auditors and more on third-party auditors to monitor and prevent environmental and... View Details
Keywords: Auditing; Audit Quality; Working Conditions; Sustainability; Empirical Operations; Empirical Service Operations; Sustainability Management; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Supply Chain Management
Ibanez, Maria R., Ashley Palmarozzo, Jodi L. Short, and Michael W. Toffel. "Second- versus Third-party Audit Quality: Evidence from Global Supply Chain Monitoring." Working Paper, August 2024.
- March 2016
- Teaching Note
Advanced Leadership Pathways: Inge Skjelfjord and the Cacao Supply Chain
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
Inge Skjelfjord, with a long career in international finance focused on agribusiness projects, had a vision to build a cacao research center that would help smallholder cacao farmers, who benefited the least from the chocolate value chain. He aimed to support the... View Details
- Summer 2020
- Article
Is It Time to Rethink Globalized Supply Chains?: The COVID-19 Pandemic Should Be a Wake-up Call for Managers and Prompt Them to Consider Actions That Will Improve Their Resilience to Future Shocks
By: Willy C. Shih
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the complex interdependencies of globalized supply chains. While these global multistage production networks had spread during a relatively benign environment of falling trade barriers and increasing interdependencies among countries,... View Details
Keywords: Supply Chains; Pandemic; Resilience; Supply Chain Management; Supply Chain; Global Range; Health Pandemics; Disruption; System Shocks; Crisis Management; Manufacturing Industry; United States; Asia; Europe; China
Shih, Willy C. "Is It Time to Rethink Globalized Supply Chains? The COVID-19 Pandemic Should Be a Wake-up Call for Managers and Prompt Them to Consider Actions That Will Improve Their Resilience to Future Shocks." MIT Sloan Management Review 61, no. 4 (Summer 2020): 16–18.
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Vaccines Use Bizarre Stuff. We Need a Supply Chain Now.
By: Scott Duke Kominers and Alex Tabarrok
Kominers, Scott Duke, and Alex Tabarrok. "Vaccines Use Bizarre Stuff. We Need a Supply Chain Now." Bloomberg Opinion (August 18, 2020).
Seven Things You Should Know to Understand the Supply Chain
Why have things been such a mess? For starters, there are a lot more layers than you probably imagine. View Details
- 2015
- Case
Advanced Leadership Pathways: Inge Skjelfjord and the Cacao Supply Chain
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Oludamilola Aladesanmi and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
Kanter, Rosabeth M., Oludamilola Aladesanmi, and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone. "Advanced Leadership Pathways: Inge Skjelfjord and the Cacao Supply Chain." Harvard Business Publishing Case 316-051, 2015.
- 28 Apr 2020
- News