MIT Sloan Management Review

New product launches are highly complex and can pose major challenges to companies. But managing the interplay between product generations can greatly increase the chances for success.

As companies rely increasingly on external suppliers, there is an emerging and compelling need for “maestros”

A comparison of two Mexican factories suggests that global companies should go beyond monitoring codes of conduct and attack the problem of poor working conditions at its source by collaborating with their suppliers to implement new management systems.

Managing product variety can be easy but hard to do well. And the difference can be significant.

Online retailers must distinguish themselves in three aspects of a transaction: customer interaction with the Web site, delivery of the product and ability to address problems when they occur

How the colonization of American manufacturing by distributors has pushed U.S. companies overseas.

Effective product returns strategies and programs can result in increased revenues, lower costs, improved profitability and enhanced levels of customer service.

Reaping the elusive productivity rewards of information technology requires that an organization must change the way it does business. Schneider National took that dictum to heart and became a trucking and logistics powerhouse.

Breaking free of linear chain thinking and viewing value creation from a multidimensional grid perspective provides the greatest opportunities for innovation.

Global sourcing is an increasingly popular business strategy, but it's not easy to execute. There are seven typical characteristics of organizations with outstanding global sourcing.