Fall 2006 Seminar Series

DATE: Thursday, October 19, 2006
LOCATION: E40-298
TIME: 4:15pm
Reception immediately following in the Philip M. Morse Reading Room, E40-106

SPEAKER:
Fernando Bernstein

TITLE
Managing Operational Risks in Decentralized Supply Chains

ABSTRACT
To mitigate the risks associated with demand variability and supply variability, firms employ a variety of hedging strategies, e.g., resource flexibility, component commonality, supplier diversification, etc. We investigate the impact of outsourcing manufacturing operations on the implementation of these operational hedging approaches for managing uncertainty.