Showing posts with label global supply chains. Show all posts
Showing posts with label global supply chains. Show all posts
Monday, January 30, 2012

How the US Can Compete and Win in Global Supply Chains

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I was delighted to read Thomas L. Friedman's Op-Ed column Made in the World in yesterday's New York Times that quoted Yossi Shef...
Friday, November 18, 2011

The Meet the Executive Lecture with Photos

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Today we were truly informed by Mr. Dan Viederman, the CEO of Verite', as to corporate social responsibility and global supply chains e...
Sunday, November 6, 2011

The Vulnerability and Complexity of Our Global Supply Chains -- What the Disasters are Revealing

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Last week, while I was in Canada to give a seminar on perishable supply chains in health care at McGill University, I picked up a copy of Th...
Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Photos from the Integrated Risk Management in Operations and Global Supply Chains Conference in Montreal

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Above are some photos taken at the INTRIM (Integrated Risk Management in Operations and Global Supply Chains) Conference that too...
Thursday, July 28, 2011

Looking Forward to the Integrated Risk Management Conference in Operations and Global Supply Chains

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I am very much looking forward to the Integrated Risk Management Conference in Operations and Global Supply Chains that begins this weekend ...
Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Looking Forward to the Integrated Risk Management in Operations and Global Supply Chains Conference

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Information about the Integrated Risk Management in Operations and Global Supply Chains (INTRIM) Conference that will take place at McGill ...
Sunday, May 22, 2011

Another Female Full Professor!

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Attaining the rank of Full Professor in academia is quite the achievement and, typically, to reach this rank, one, after receiving a PhD, be...
Sunday, March 27, 2011

Would Proper Risk Assessment and Management Have Minimized the Damage to Japan?

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The New York Times in a provocative article is raising the question of whether attention to risk assessment for nuclear power plants in Jap...
Saturday, March 19, 2011

The Robustness of Global Supply Chains and the Disasters in Japan

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The New York Times has some very timely coverage of the immediate and more speculative impact on global supply chains post the earthquake-t...
Friday, February 11, 2011

Meet the Executive Event a Big Success -- What a Day!

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Today, we hosted Mr. Marc Schneider, the Group President of Dress Furnishings at Phillips Van Heusen (PVH), as part of our "Meet the Ex...
Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Outsourcing in Supply Chains Under Exchange Rate Risk and Competition

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Offshore outsourcing refers to the practice of procuring goods or services from outside foreign suppliers rather than producing them in-hous...
Tuesday, July 6, 2010

iPhone 4 Supply Chain, Operational Efficiency, and China

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Do you know the value of the parts in your iPhone and what it took to put them all together? The way to calculate the various costs of the c...
Saturday, September 19, 2009

Dr. Helander on Food Safety, Social Networks, and IBM to Receive National Medal of Technology and Innovation

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Yesterday, Dr. Mary Helander of IBM, spoke in our Speaker Series . Since she arrived the evening before and overnighted at the Black Walnut ...
Thursday, September 17, 2009

Operations Research is Fascinating -- Dr. Helander of IBM on Food Safety in a Global Supply Chain and More

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Operations Research is a Fascinating Subject with topics that capture one's attention. This is one theme that we try to get across (and...
Thursday, May 28, 2009

Plenary talk, Net2009, Rome, and the European Soccer Championship

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This morning I gave my plenary talk on supply chain network oligopolies, coalitions, and the merger paradox at the NET2009 conference at La ...
Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Supply Chain Lecture is Now "Live"

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Thanks to my hosts at the Institute for Transportation Studies at the University of California Davis, my lecture on supply chain networks in...