Showing posts with label mergers and acquisitions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mergers and acquisitions. Show all posts
Saturday, August 23, 2014

Challenges in the Blood Industry - Opportunities for Supply Chain Redesign and Operations Research

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The article by Matt Wald (who was a  classmate of mine at Brown University) , "Blood Industry Hurt by Surplus" in today's The ...
Sunday, January 5, 2014

FireEye Acquires Mandiant and Why Cybersecurity Matters

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My most recent post on this blog was on networks in mergers and acquisitions and shortly thereafter there was a very interesting acquisitio...
Saturday, February 16, 2013

Computational Social Science and Supply Chain Networks

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I had a great time giving a seminar yesterday on Grand Challenges and Opportunities in Supply Chain Networks: From Analysis to Design in th...
Friday, December 23, 2011

Risk Reduction and Cost Synergy via Supply Chain Network Integration

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Nothing like waking up and having a message from a publisher that the galleys of your paper are ready for proofing. Plus, when there are no ...
Sunday, May 1, 2011

Supply Chain Risk, Mergers and Acquisitions, and Synergy

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Risk in the context of supply chains may be associated with the production/procurement processes, the transportation/shipment of the goods, ...
Thursday, November 4, 2010

Supernetwork Center Associates at INFORMS in Austin, Texas

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Nine of the Supernetwork Center Associates will be presenting papers at the INFORMS Annual Meeting in Austin, Texas , November 7-10, 2010 ...
Friday, August 27, 2010

US Approves Merger of Continental and United Airlines

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The New York Times is reporting that the proposed merger of Continental and United Airlines has been approved. It is expected that the de...
Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Computational Management Science in Glorious Vienna

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I am very much looking forward to the International Conference on Computational Management Science that will take place in Vienna, Austria ...
Tuesday, May 18, 2010

High Tech Mergers Are HOT Again

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USAToday.com is reporting that high tech mergers, both in number and in value, are on the increase. Especially attractive, as acquisitions, ...
Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Multi-product Supply Chains, Network Integration, and Mergers and Acquisitions

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Now that the economy appears to be recovering, more and more companies are looking at mergers and acquisitions as a means of further reducin...
Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Mergers and Acquisitions, Energy and the Environment

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The New York Times is reporting that the number of mergers and acquisitions of energy companies is growing and that energy companies are in...
Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Was the Operations Research Crew Scheduling Program Just Too Interesting?

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According to CNN.com as well as the New York Times , the reason that the Northwest pilot and first officer were unreachable for about 90 m...
Tuesday, September 8, 2009

To Outsource or to Do It Yourself and Boeing

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Sunday's NY Times had a terrific article, A Dream Interrupted at Boeing , that highlighted what went wrong in the design and productio...
Saturday, August 22, 2009

Supply Chain Disruptions and New Book

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In the post below, I noted that I have organized an invited session, which will take place this Monday, at the Math Programming Symposium in...
Tuesday, January 27, 2009

To Merge or Not to Merge

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The big news today is the merger of Pfizer and Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, to the tune of $68 billion. Clearly, some of the potential benefits wi...