When Tragedy Strikes the Supply Chain (HBR Case Study)

Name: When Tragedy Strikes the Supply Chain (HBR Case Study) (English version)
SKU: R1601X

Subramanian, Ram

Product #:R1601X

Supplier:Harvard Business Impact

Discipline:Operations Management

Details:Case (PDF) • 12 pages • 2015-11-11

Subjects:

Crisis management Supply chain management Business management Operations and supply chain management Business management Operations and supply chain management Strikes Corporate social responsibility Emerging markets Strikes Corporate social responsibility Emerging markets

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Goods, trade, and consumer services Goods, trade, and consumer services

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The CEO of Tots & Teens, an apparel company headquartered in New Jersey, learns at a company party that one of the factories in Bangladesh where T&T's clothing is made has just collapsed in the middle of a workday, killing more than 2,000 workers. She and her COO immediately fly to Dhaka to visit the disaster site and plan their response. Aside from finding a way to support the victims and their families and to tighten up oversight of the company's supply chain, they must decide whether to move production to a factory in China in order to get the fall line out in time. With expert commentary from John Manners-Bell, the CEO of Transport Intelligence, and Adam K. Kanzer, a managing director of Domini Social Investments. For teaching purposes, this is the case-only version of the HBR case study. The commentary-only version is reprint R1601Z. The complete case study and commentary is reprint R1601K.