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Massachusetts-based Shawmut scrambled to expand production to meet the soaring demand for N95 masks and hospital gowns during the pandemic. Its experience illustrates a crucial point that policymakers should take to heart: Once a country loses its industrial commons... View Details

Keywords: Supply Chain; Health Pandemics; Production; Management; United States

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February 2025
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Estimating Models of Supply and Demand: Instruments and Covariance Restrictions

By: Alexander MacKay and Nathan H. Miller

We consider the identification of empirical models of supply and demand with imperfect competition. We show that a restriction on the covariance between unobserved demand and cost shocks can resolve endogeneity and identify the price parameter. We demonstrate how to... View Details

Keywords: Demand Estimation; Identification; Endogeneity Bias; Covariance Restrictions; Ordinary Least Squares; Instrumental Variables; Price; Demand and Consumers; Competition

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2024
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Supply and Demand and the Term Structure of Interest Rates

By: Robin Greenwood, Samuel Hanson and Dimitri Vayanos

We survey the growing literature emphasizing the role that supply-and-demand forces play in shaping the term structure of interest rates. Our starting point is the Vayanos and Vila (2009, 2021) model of the term structure of default-free bond yields, which we present... View Details

Keywords: Demand and Consumers; Interest Rates; Bonds; Financial Markets

09 Mar 2018
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The Supply Chain Economy and the Future of Good Jobs in America

April 2012
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Renesas Electronics and the Automotive Microcontroller Supply Chain (A)

By: Willy Shih and Margaret Pierson

The magnitude 9.0 earthquake that struck Japan in March 2011 caused extensive damage to Renesas Electronics wafer fabrication facility, a critical link in the global automotive supply chain. Many OEMs sole-sourced customized microprocessors from the fab, so its... View Details

Keywords: Natural Disasters; Crisis Management; Supply Chain Management; Production; Strategy; Semiconductor Industry; Auto Industry; Japan

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28 Mar 2022
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The Supply Chain Crisis Is About to Get a Lot Worse

May 2001
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The Achilles Heel of Supply Chain Management

By: Ananth Raman, Nicole DeHoratius and Zeynep Ton

Keywords: Supply Chain; Management

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April 2010 (Revised September 2011)
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Supply Chain Partners: Virginia Mason and Owens & Minor (A) (Abridged)

By: V.G. Narayanan and Lisa Brem

Owens & Minor (O&M) performed lean inventory services for Virginia Mason (VM) as its Alpha Vendor, but the outdated industry pricing model created perverse incentives and could not capture O&M's costs. Together, O&M and VM created an activity-based pricing model: Total... View Details

Keywords: Supply Chain Management; Partners and Partnerships; Activity Based Costing and Management; Business Model; Non-Governmental Organizations; Nonprofit Organizations; Motivation and Incentives; Asset Pricing; Cost Accounting; Fair Value Accounting; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry

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29 Jun 2020
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COVID Lockdown: How India's Food Supply Chain First Tightened and then Recovered

November 2015 (Revised January 2016)
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McDonald's Corporation: Managing a Sustainable Supply Chain—From Amazon Soya to Cage Free Eggs

By: Michael W. Toffel

This case provides an opportunity for students to consider how large, multinational corporations should respond when targeted by activists regarding environmental and social concerns in their supply chains. Greenpeace targeted McDonald's because its chicken supplier... View Details

Keywords: Supply Chain; Supply Chain Management; Welfare; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Service Industry; Brazil; United States; United Kingdom

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March 21, 2022
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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

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Jackson Hole Symposium, "Global Supply Chains: The Looming 'Great Reallocation'"

Supply Chain Close-Up: The Video Vault TN

Shenandoah Provision and Supply Co. (A) (Condensed)

San Fabian Supply Co. (Philippines), Teaching Note

Hopscotch Acquires Online School Supplies Retailer SkoolShop

Credit Supply Shocks, Network Effects, and the Real Economy

Retailing and Supply Chains in the Information World

The Challenge of Rebuilding U.S. Domestic Supply Chains

Estimating Models of Supply and Demand: Instruments and Covariance Restrictions

Supply and Demand and the Term Structure of Interest Rates

The Supply Chain Economy and the Future of Good Jobs in America

Renesas Electronics and the Automotive Microcontroller Supply Chain (A)

The Supply Chain Crisis Is About to Get a Lot Worse

The Achilles Heel of Supply Chain Management

Supply Chain Partners: Virginia Mason and Owens & Minor (A) (Abridged)

COVID Lockdown: How India's Food Supply Chain First Tightened and then Recovered

McDonald's Corporation: Managing a Sustainable Supply Chain—From Amazon Soya to Cage Free Eggs

Are the Risks of Global Supply Chains Starting to Outweigh the Rewards?

Improving Working Conditions in Global Supply Chains

Improving Working Conditions in Global Supply Chains