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China’s Slowdown: The First Stage of the Bullwhip Effect

Harvard Business Review

The essence of the phenomenon is the fact that each stage in the supply chain plans its capital projects and operations, including inventory levels, based on its future expectations. Macroeconomic data during the 2008 financial crisis show the bullwhip effect operating on a much broader scale. For example , U.S.

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Setting Strategy in Egypt's (and Other) Shifting Sands: A Four-Part Approach

Harvard Business Review

Although it is too early to tell if Tunisia and Egypt will prove the exceptions rather than the rule when it comes to dramatic political transitions in the Middle East, multinationals operating in the region have already faced significant losses. Again, once it starts, political turmoil tends to spread across borders.