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Supply Chains & Logistics
Offshoring Versus “Spackling”
How a textile manufacturer balances cost cutting with mass customization in its domestic facility.
Organizational Behavior
When Learning Stops
Groups devoted to learning must take steps to avoid stagnation.
Marketing Strategy
Smart Pricing
A review of recent and seminal work linking pricing decisions with operational insights.
Climate Change
Making Business Sense of Environmental Compliance
Companies lose money because they treat pollution control and plant operations as separate concerns. But it costs less in the long run to make plant managers true partners.
Executing Strategy
Unwise Decisions and Unanticipated Consequences
How faulty decision making led to the ruin of a once profitable ordnance manufacturer.
Supply Chains & Logistics
Manage Consolidation in the Distribution Channel
Manufacturers have four strategic options when facing the dynamics of consolidating channels.