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Supply-chain management is entering a new era. Historically the focus of supply-chain managers has been sourcing. However, shocks caused by the pandemic, a new urgency in managing greenhouse gas emissions, geopolitics, plus the wars in the Ukraine and Middle East have put the fragility of global supply chains top of mind. The new focus on resilience and sustainability is going to present managers with fresh choices and challenges as they reorient their production footprints to ones that will be more flexible and more regional.

Join the UCLA Anderson Center for Global Management (CGM) and Professor Chris Tang in a moderated discussion with UCLA Anderson Executive MBA alumni Rodney Moreh (’23), founder and chief executive officer of sourceM, a full-service product sourcing agency that leverages its supply chain expertise to develop and produce custom consumer goods and packaging on behalf of clients, and Kevin Lee (’22), co-founder and chief operating officer of Hoolie Golf, a golf apparel company that manufactures, sources and distributes its apparel products globally, who also serves as chief executive officer of APEX International, a global supply chain management company.

As the U.S. strives to reduce its dependence on China by de-risking its supply chains, many U.S. firms are shifting operations away from China to friend-shoring countries such as India, Thailand and Vietnam. At the same time, many U.S. companies are also increasing their sourcing volume from near-shoring countries such as Mexico and Canada to take advantage of the USMCA free-trade agreement. While friend-shoring or near-shoring can improve supply chain resilience, it is not risk-free. U.S. firms need to manage market, operational and reputational risks, and devise strategies to identify, evaluate, mitigate, and respond to the various types of supply chain risks that may arise from this de-risking process. Moreh and Lee will discuss their own supply chain and sourcing strategies and explore these issues in a thoughtful and interactive discussion with Professor Chris Tang, a foremost scholar of global supply chain management.

The discussion is a featured event in the Global Management Speaker Series, supported by the Class of 2022.

Open to UCLA students, alumni, faculty, staff and members of the extended UCLA and general community.

RSVP Required via Zoom for Webinar Link and Instructions to Join.

Over the past few years, the advocates of ESG (Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance) have encountered strong headwinds in the U.S. Some politicians have created an anti-ESG movement as part of their election campaigns.  According to a January 10, 2024, Wall Street Journal article entitled “The Latest Dirty Word in Corporate America: ESG,” ESG has become the three letters that corporate officials dare not utter. Nonetheless, many business leaders remain focused on environmental, social, and corporate governance issues in making business decisions.

Join the UCLA Anderson Center for Global Management and UCLA School of Law’s Lowell Milken Institute for Business Law and Policy in hosting Christopher S. Tang, Distinguished Professor, Edward W. Chair in Business Administration and Faculty Director, Center for Global Management and Thilo Kuntz, Chair in Private and Corporate Law, Heinrich Heine University Dusseldorf, Germany and currently, visiting professor at the UCLA School of Law, teaching a course on Comparative Corporate Governance, for a presentation and discussion on the broad landscape of ESG and the challenges and opportunities for corporate leadership.

Putting aside the politics and social media campaigns to end ESG, what are the operational issues that responsible corporate leadership face in dealing with challenges to corporate well-being from, for example, a changing environment, a diverse work force, and greater demands for corporate transparency? Globally, there is an expanding body of ESG regulations and norms.  For example, both California and the EU have enacted disclosure requirements that will require many companies to discuss climate impacts on a company’s operations and financial performance. Do these external regulations and norms on the corporation change the nature of the fiduciary obligations that directors owe the company and its shareholders?  What impact does this have on directors’ decision-making? Can traditional legal rules, such as the Business Judgment Rule, still offer directors protection in such a rapidly changing environment? How does the transnational character of environmental concerns and a growing body of transnational legal norms affect the local director sitting in Los Angeles, London or Berlin? Can corporations be an instrument of change in an environment where ESG proposals meet increasing opposition by traditionally oriented shareholders? Kuntz and Tang will explore these questions in a thoughtful conversation and interactive discussion.

This forum is a collaborative partnership between the Center for Global Management and UCLA School of Law's Lowell Milken Institute for Business Law and Policy.  Open to UCLA Anderson School of Management and UCLA School of Law School Students only. RSVP required. For more details >>

How should a firm go beyond financial measures to create a more environmentally sustainable and socially responsible future? Join Professor Chris Tang, faculty director of UCLA Anderson’s Center for Global Management, and Professor Heiwai Tang (B.S. ’00), director of Hong Kong University’s Asia Global Institute, for a moderated discussion with Margie Yang, chairman of the Esquel Group, who has long been an advocate for environmental conservation and sustainable production.

Headquartered in Hong Kong and based in China, the Esquel Group is a family-owned, knowledge-based innovation company with textile and apparel manufacturing operations in mainland China. Yang will address how the company has embraced automation and environmentally friendly production processes in its operations in China, where it faces rising labor costs and stricter environmental regulation. She will discuss the importance of transparency in supply chains and demonstrate how the company has developed a business model that makes money, protects the environment and empowers its people.

This discussion is in collaboration with HKU’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Study Center.

Open to UCLA students, alumni, faculty, staff and members of the extended UCLA community and general public. For more information and to register, please visit >>

The Wilbur K. Woo Greater China Business Series engages leading executives, innovators, influencers, investors and academics in conversations around the major forces, trends and innovations in the region across society, enterprises and consumers. Through balanced discourse, the series serves as a neutral forum to exchange ideas and learnings, understand new norms and models, and provide forward-looking perspectives on advancements to better understand the trends, opportunities and challenges of doing business in and with the Greater China region.

Please join the Center for Global Management (CGM), in hosting a lunchtime discussion with Christine Loh, former undersecretary for the environment, in the Hong Kong SAR Government, a position she held from 2012 to 2017. She was the advisor to the head of the HKSAR Government from 2019 to 2020 on specific aspects of environmental cooperation between mainland China and Hong Kong. From 2018 to 2022, Christine taught an MBA course at UCLA Anderson titled Non-Market Risks and Understanding Politics: The Global Context for Doing Business. She serves on the boards of several listed and nonprofit organizations. She is best known as a leading voice in public policy particularly in the environment and climate change, sustainable finance, and geopolitics.

The luncheon will provide an opportunity for interested MBA students to meet Christine in an informal and interactive setting and hear about her career trajectory in law, business, politics, media and the non-profit sector. She will share her thoughts and insights on the ESG movement in Asia and the U.S., and why she believes attention in sustainability will not fizzle out in the wake of climate change and shifting geopolitics.

Open to UCLA Anderson students only. To RSVP: If you are interested in attending this luncheon, please email Lucy Allard at lucy.allard@anderson.ucla.edu by no later than Friday, January 7th. Please attach a copy of your resume.