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• Teaching Note | HBS Case Collection | June 2019

  Global Sourcing at Nike

  Nien-he Hsieh, Michael W. Toffel and Olivia Hull

  Teaching Note for HBS No. 619-008.

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  Hsieh, Nien-he, Michael W. Toffel, and Olivia Hull. "Global Sourcing at Nike." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 619-061, June 2019.  View Details

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• Case | HBS Case Collection | March 2019 (Revised June 2019)

  Global Sourcing at Nike

  Nien-hê Hsieh, Michael W. Toffel and Olivia Hull

  This case explores the evolution of Nike’s global product sourcing strategy, in particular ongoing efforts to improve working conditions at its suppliers’ factories. When the case opens in July 2018, Vice President of Sourcing Amanda Tucker and her colleagues in Nike’s Global Sourcing and Manufacturing division were focusing on three key supply chain challenges: sourcing from suppliers that meet compliance standards, challenging and encouraging suppliers to improve capabilities, and being responsive to consumer demand across the world.

  Keywords: sourcing; Factory conditions; Trade; Geography; Geographic Scope; Globalized Firms and Management; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Governance Compliance; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation Strategy; Labor; Human Capital; Working Conditions; Supply Chain Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Labor and Management Relations; Complexity; Sports Industry; Fashion Industry; Oregon; Portland; Asia; North and Central America;

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  Hsieh, Nien-hê, Michael W. Toffel, and Olivia Hull. "Global Sourcing at Nike." Harvard Business School Case 619-008, March 2019. (Revised June 2019.)  View Details

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• Working Paper | HBS Working Paper Series | 2019

  Infrastructure and Finance: Evidence from India's GQ Highway Network

  Abhiman Das, Ejaz Ghani, Arti Grover, William R. Kerr and Ramana Nanda

  We use the construction of India's Golden Quadrangle (GQ) central highway network, together with comprehensive loan data drawn from the Reserve Bank of India, to investigate the interaction between infrastructure development and financial sector depth. We identify a disproportionate increase in loan count and average loan size in districts along the GQ highway network using stringent specifications with industry and district fixed effects. Our results hold in straight-line IV frameworks and are not present in “placebo tests” with another highway that was planned to be upgraded at the same time as GQ but subsequently delayed. Importantly, however, results are concentrated in districts with stronger initial financial development, suggesting that while financing does respond to large infrastructure investments and help spur real economic outcomes, initial financial sector development might play an important role in determining where real activity will grow.

  Keywords: Infrastructure; Financing and Loans; India;

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  Das, Abhiman, Ejaz Ghani, Arti Grover, William R. Kerr, and Ramana Nanda. "Infrastructure and Finance: Evidence from India's GQ Highway Network." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-121, June 2019.  View Details

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