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- 2021
- Working Paper
Pricing and Supply Chain Transparency to Conscientious Consumers
By: Marco Bertini, Stefan Buehler and Daniel Halbheer
- March 2013
- Supplement
Renesas Electronics and the Automotive Microcontroller Supply Chain
By: Willy C. Shih and Margaret Pierson
Shih, Willy C., and Margaret Pierson. "Renesas Electronics and the Automotive Microcontroller Supply Chain ." Harvard Business School PowerPoint Supplement 613-085, March 2013.
- Awards
Outstanding Conference Paper
Winner of the Outstanding Conference Paper Award from the 2015 Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability (ARCS) Annual Conference for his paper with Jodi Short and Andrea Hugill, “Monitoring Global Supply Chains.” View Details
- December 2021
- Case
Bunge: Building a Sustainable Future?
By: Forest Reinhardt, David E. Bell, Pedro Levindo and Ruth Costas
Bunge, one of the world’s leading agribusiness traders and processors, strives to comply with its commitment to having a deforestation-free value chain by 2025 while it considers potential new business growth areas. After a complex turnaround, which involved one of the... View Details
Keywords: Deforestation; Value Chain; Agribusiness; Values and Beliefs; Growth and Development Strategy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Financial Strategy; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry
Reinhardt, Forest, David E. Bell, Pedro Levindo, and Ruth Costas. "Bunge: Building a Sustainable Future?" Harvard Business School Case 522-007, December 2021.
- June 2022 (Revised October 2022)
- Background Note
Digital Commerce and Delivery: Preparing Food and Retail Value Chains for a 50-50 World
By: William R. Kerr, Daniel O'Connor, Paige Boehmcke and Will Ensor
Increasing digitalization of grocery retail and quick commerce reveals insights about managing complex supply chains at scale and shifting revenue streams from product sales to data monetization. How are the roles of retailers changing? What happens if marginal cost... View Details
Keywords: Grocery Delivery; Grocery; Digitalization; Fulfillment; Delivery; Supply Chain; Disruption; Food; Supply Chain Management; Market Design; Trends; Value Creation; Goods and Commodities; Customer Value and Value Chain; Digital Transformation; Retail Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; United States; China
Kerr, William R., Daniel O'Connor, Paige Boehmcke, and Will Ensor. "Digital Commerce and Delivery: Preparing Food and Retail Value Chains for a 50-50 World." Harvard Business School Background Note 822-108, June 2022. (Revised October 2022.)
- 18 Jul 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
Beyond Symbolic Responses to Private Politics: Examining Labor Standards Improvement in Global Supply Chains
- 2010
- Book
The New Science of Retailing: How Analytics Are Transforming the Supply Chain and Improving Performance
By: Marshall Fisher and Ananth Raman
Retailers today are drowning in data but lacking in insight: They have huge volumes of information at their disposal. But they're unsure of how to sort through it and use it to make smart decisions. The result? They're struggling with profit-sapping supply chain... View Details
Keywords: Profit; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Logistics; Supply Chain Management; Mathematical Methods; Retail Industry
Fisher, Marshall, and Ananth Raman. The New Science of Retailing: How Analytics Are Transforming the Supply Chain and Improving Performance. Harvard Business Press, 2010.
- January 2016 (Revised February 2016)
- Course Overview Note
The Sustainable Core: Operations Management
By: Michael W. Toffel and L. Beril Toktay
This note is designed to help faculty embed environmental sustainability content into their core Operations Management course at the MBA or undergraduate level. It can also be used to identify cases with environmental content that can be used in operations electives... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Management; Operations Management; Sustainable Operations; Environmental Regulation; Operations; Supply Chain; Supply Chain Management; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Biotechnology Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Construction Industry; Forest Products Industry; Retail Industry
Toffel, Michael W., and L. Beril Toktay. "The Sustainable Core: Operations Management." Harvard Business School Course Overview Note 616-022, January 2016. (Revised February 2016.)
- 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.)
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
How the Supply Chain Upheaval Became a Life-or-Death Threat
- 02 Jul 2019
- News
The high price of breaking up global supply chains
- 26 Sep 2023
- News
Mexico and Vietnam’s Role in Global Supply Chain Reshuffle
- 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
- 28 Apr 2020
- News
We Need a Stress Test for Critical Supply Chains
- August 2013 (Revised January 2016)
- Case
Sustainability at Siemens
By: V. Kasturi Rangan, Amy C. Edmondson, Daniela Beyersdorfer and Emer Moloney
Describes sustainability efforts at Siemens since arrival of Chief Sustainability Officer, Barbara Kux, in 2008. Asks students to evaluate success of those efforts and outline what the company should do going forward. View Details
Keywords: Corporate Sustainability; Energy Efficiency; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Change Management; Supply Chain Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Energy Conservation; Environmental Sustainability; Gender; Electronics Industry
Rangan, V. Kasturi, Amy C. Edmondson, Daniela Beyersdorfer, and Emer Moloney. "Sustainability at Siemens." Harvard Business School Case 514-026, August 2013. (Revised January 2016.)
- 28 Mar 2022
- News
The Supply Chain Crisis Is About to Get a Lot Worse
- 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