New Balance: Managing Orders and Working Conditions
New Balance Athletics, Inc., a major U.S.-based athletic footwear and apparel brand, sources most of its footwear products from independent suppliers whose factories are located in China, Indonesia, and Vietnam. Monica Gorman, vice president of responsible leadership and global compliance, is seeking to combine data sets collected by different parts of the organization to see whether she and her colleagues in the company’s order management function can make a clear connection between the corporate social responsibility (CSR) results that her function tracks at the supplier level, with New Balance’s order placement practices.
Keywords: Footwear; Athletic Footwear; manufacturing; CSR; sustainability; labor and management relations; Quality Management; supply chains; Operations; Management; Production; Working Conditions; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Supply Chain Management; Supply Chain; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Consumer Products Industry;
Citation:
Toffel, Michael W., Eileen McNeely, and Matthew Preble. "New Balance: Managing Orders and Working Conditions." Harvard Business School Case 619-002, January 2019. (Revised July 2019.) View Details