Tariffs, Technology, and the New Geography of Manufacturing

Writing in Harvard Business Review , BCG’s Daniel Küpper , Nikolaus Lang , and Jan Nordemann explore how geopolitical instability and rapid tech advances are reshaping global manufacturing strategies. Tariffs and the emergence of the “factory of the future” are compelling firms to reevaluate where and how they produce. They assert that navigating the evolving geopolitical landscape “will depend on dynamic decision-making that combines quantitative modeling with strategic judgment under uncertainty.”