The January 2008 issue features:

"Putting Leadership Back into Strategy,"

"Mastering the Management System,"

"The Five Competitive Forces That Shape Strategy,"

"Innovation Killers: How Financial Tools Destroy Your Capacity to Do New Thing,"

"The HBR Interview: Bruce Wasserstein on Giving Great Advice."

FEATURES

COVER STORY: ASIA’S LOGISTICS HUBS
16 The Shanghai Connection
Logistics activity is shifting to the center of China as Shanghai
emerges as the new economic capital.
By David S. Jacoby and Chao Patrick Yang

22 Singapore Connects
Economy of efficiency makes Singapore the world’s best-rated hub.
By Dann A. Maurno

26 Right-sizing Your DC
Redesigning warehouses from the inside out
is paying off in faster throughput and more
cost-effective operations.
By Lara L. Sowinski

30 Maintaining the Momentum
West Coast logistics players are using the
current ‘calm’ in trade flows to gear up for
long-term expansion.
By Lara L. Sowinski

36 Do Strong Ethics Hurt U.S. Global
Competitiveness?
Sometimes, but the long-term goal of ethics and transparency is
gaining global support.
By Gail Dutton

42 There’s More to Compliance
Cooperation than Just C-TPAT
Under-utilized business-to-government relationships facilitate
supply chain risk management.
By Suzanne Richer

EXECUTIVE BRIEFING

10 Supply Chain Watch

12 Tradewinds
HOW WE DO IT

46 Integrating Different Logistics
Systems After Acquisitions
Brunswick Boat doubled in size over
two years, posing challenges to the
supply chain.
By Mark Bernstein

COLUMNS

INSIDE WORLD TRADE
7 “Establishing a Sustainable
Business Agenda”
Companies are becoming increasingly
aware that “green is the new black.”
By Neil Shister

POLICY PERSPECTIVES
8 Shoe Duties Exemplify
Inequities in U.S. Tariff System
Cheap sneakers face the highest
tariffs the U.S. imposes on any
manufactured good.
By Edward Gresser and Daniella Markheim

GREAT MOMENTS IN WORLD TRADE
50 America’s First Railroad
The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad got its
start as a response to the Erie Canal.
By Jeremy N. Smith

Collaborative Logistics
Integrating different modes of transport and providers is key to a
seamless supply chain.
By Neil Shister

SPECIAL REPORT: LATIN AMERICA

24 Mexico Near-Sourcing Grows
More Attractive
A pro-business atmosphere is taking over.
By Gail Dutton

26 Unlocking Opportunity in the
Americas
When it comes to trade, the Americas must adapt or become
irrelevant.
By Dan Brutto

28 Inland Ports Gear Up for Even More Business
The near-shoring trend coupled with growing NAFTA trade flows is
greasing the wheels.
By Lara L. Sowinski

SPECIAL REPORT
32 America’s Ports Take on the
Challenge of Trade Growth
Harbors are being dredged, facilities expanded, environments
cleaned up to handle anticipated demand.
By Mark Bernstein

Columns

INSIDE WORLD TRADE
7 The Rational Case
for World Trade
As a recession looms, it’s all the more
important for U.S. lawmakers to not
tamper with trade policy and allow
global market forces to sustain
foreign trade.
By Neil Shister

POLICY PERSPECTIVES
8 What the Impasse in the
WTO Doha Round Means
to U.S. Business
The lack of progress for 2008 has
a silver lining—it provides U.S.
businesses a window during which to
influence the outcome.
By David S. Christy, Jr., John R. Magnus, and
Christopher Parlin

GREAT MOMENTS IN WORLD TRADE
50 iPhone Raises the Bar for
Supply Chain Performance
Apple succeeds because the company
understands what a supply chain can
and cannot do.
By Jeremy N. Smith