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The Customer Really Is Always Right

Strategy Driven

As well as being the owner, you are now the marketing executive, the financial guru, the social media manager, the reprographics assistant, the web designer and the coffee maker. Outsourcing this sort of service also means that you are more free to deal with more pressing area of your business vision. Incentivize.

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It’s OK to Move Down (Yes, Down) the Value Chain

Harvard Business Review

defend against “attack from beneath” and maintain your reputation for ethical operations. As organizations gain increasing insight into their own operating models and supply chains they are coming to appreciate the true cost of supposedly “low-value” suppliers. Ethical supply chains.

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Can Lean Manufacturing Put an End to Sweatshops?

Harvard Business Review

However, until recently there was little evidence on this question in the countries that dominate global markets in low-cost manufacturing. To examine this possibility, I conducted research on recent developments in Nike Inc’s apparel supply chain with Jens Hainmueller of Stanford University and Richard M. Insight Center.

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The “Business in Society” Imperative for CEOs

Harvard Business Review

The contemporary CEO must not only be expert at addressing the commercial verities of products, markets, and competitors. On the one hand, protectionism, populism, and wide-spread distrust of business’s role in politics is threatening international corporations (think Carrier, Boeing, and tariffs/taxes for off-shoring and outsourcing).

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In Defense of Responsible Offshoring and Outsourcing

Harvard Business Review

employees can be 25 percent or greater of total workforce; its supply chain of third parties is vital. especially in fast-growing foreign markets. for certain domestic markets due to rising costs abroad and labor productivity at home.) Because a presence can strengthen that market's economy and thus increase U.S.