Creating More Resilient Supply Chains | HBR IdeaCast | Podcast

Harvard Business Review · Oct 18, 2026 · 29m

Creating More Resilient Supply Chains | HBR IdeaCast | Podcast

Uploaded 05-01-23

6 Jan 2023

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Willy Shih, professor at Harvard Business School, says that the complex, global, and just-in-time manufacturing processes we’ve developed in recent decades are highly susceptible to breakdowns, especially during a global pandemic. He explains why the shortages we’ve seen in 2020 – in goods from toilet paper to appliances – are indicative of a bigger problem and talks through ways can businesses protect themselves and consumers in the future. Shih is the author of the HBR article “Global Supply…