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