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Operations Management Reading: Strategic Sourcing, Teaching Note
Shih, Willy; Pierson, MargaretTeaching Note HBS-8038-EService and Operations ManagementTeaching Note for Product #8037.Starting at €0.00
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Europe's Solution Factories
Chick, Stephen E.; Huchzermeier, Arnd; Netessine, SergueiArticle HBS-R1404J-EService and Operations ManagementManufacturers in developed countries can no longer rely on lean management practices to stay profitable. They face increasing competition from plants in large emerging economies that are able to produce on a large scale at a lower cost, while still providing high quality. The way forward, the authors suggest, can be glimpsed from analyzing past winners of Europe's annual Industrial Excellence Award. Those companies have succeeded by using one or ...Starting at €8.20
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Knights Apparel and the Alta Gracia Factory: Paying a Living Wage
Paul Brest, Debra SchifrinnCase SGSB-SM237-EStrategyIn 2014 The Alta Gracia clothing factory in the Dominican Republic was doing something quite unusual in the industry; it was paying its employees a living wage, which was 350 percent higher than the country’s minimum wage. Knights Apparel, which owned the four-year old factory, also provided benefits, health care, and allowed the workers to unionize. Most apparel factories paid employees a minimum wage, which in some places was not enough to pay...Starting at €8.20
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Knights Apparel and the Alta Gracia Factory: Paying a Living Wage - Teaching Note
Paul Brest, Debra SchifrinnTeaching Note SGSB-SM237TN-EStrategyIn 2014 The Alta Gracia clothing factory in the Dominican Republic was doing something quite unusual in the industry; it was paying its employees a living wage, which was 350 percent higher than the country’s minimum wage. Knights Apparel, which owned the four-year old factory, also provided benefits, health care, and allowed the workers to unionize. Most apparel factories paid employees a minimum wage, which in some places was not enough to pay...Starting at €0.00
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The 3-D Printing Revolution
D'Aveni, Richard A.Article HBS-R1505B-EStrategyThe use of 3-D printing, also known as additive manufacturing, has moved well beyond prototyping, rapid tooling, trinkets, and toys. Companies such as GE, Lockheed Martin, and BMW are switching to it for industrial production at scale. More companies will follow as the range of printable materials continues to expand. Already available are basic plastics, photosensitive resins, ceramics, cement, glass, numerous metals, thermoplastic composites (s...Starting at €8.20
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442 McAdam
Elizabeth M.A. Grasby; Jessica WelshCase IVEY-9B16B010-EAccounting and ControlThe owner of a designer handbag company, 442 McAdam, found she could no longer manufacture in-house the quantity of handbags required to meet existing orders. Manufacturing would need to be outsourced, and the owner would have to choose between a local maStarting at €8.20
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Fuyao Glass America: Sourcing Decision
Shih, WillyCase HBS-618007-EStrategyThe Inside the Case video that accompanies this case includes teaching tips and insight from the author (available to registered educators only). In today's global economy, what are the factors that go into production location choice? This case is set in the world's largest automotive glass producer as it expands from China into the United States. To meet a very aggressive cost target, management is faced with the alternatives of fulfilling the ...Starting at €8.20
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Fuyao Glass America: Sourcing Decision, Teaching Note
Shih, WillyTeaching Note HBS-618032-EStrategyTeaching note for case 618007.Starting at €0.00
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The 3-D Printing Playbook
D'Aveni, Richard A.Article HBS-R1804H-EInformation TechnologiesWe are entering a new era in additive manufacturing, or "3-D printing." It has major implications for the adoption of the technology and for the choices of business models available to companies that take the plunge, says the author. Advances in the technology's capabilities and expansion of the available materials and the supplier ecosystem have made it possible to produce a much broader range of affordable things--from the soles of running shoe...Starting at €8.20
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AGC Inc. in 2019: "Your Dreams, Our Challenge"
Kato, Masanori; Schaede, Ulrike; O'Reilly, CharlesCase SGSB-OB103-ELeadership and People ManagementAsahi Glass Co., Ltd. in 2014 was the world’s largest glass company, but the company faced flat revenues and increased global competition. Several of its flagship businesses projected few prospects for growth unless the company could develop new products and identify competitive strengths to compete within the rapidly changing global economy. AGC held leading global market shares in four major products: architectural glass, automotive glass, quar...Starting at €8.20