Showing posts with label risk management. Show all posts
Showing posts with label risk management. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 30, 2025

Supply Chain Vulnerabilities and the Need for Diversification - Thanks to The Democracy Forum for the Invitation to Serve as a Panelist!

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The invitation arrived a few weeks ago from Lord Charles Bruce, the President of The Democracy Forum. The panel webinar on "Supply Chai...
Thursday, January 2, 2014

Network Approach to Mergers & Acquisitions

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Today's New York Times has an article, "U.S. Merger Activity in '13 Back at the Trillion-Dollar Level," by David Gelles, ...
Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Were the Reviewers of Our Paper in the Audience?

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As a rather "seasoned" academic I continue to be amazed and surprised when it comes to the serendipity of research. I heard the ...
Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Medical Waste, Sustainability, and Operations Resarch

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For many months now, we have been researching health care supply chains, with a focus on perishable products ranging from blood supply chain...
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...
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 20, 2010

Forensic Engineering and Learning from Disasters

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I have just about finished reading Henry Petroski's book, "The Essential Engineer," which was published in 2010. It is filled ...
Friday, June 25, 2010

Portfolio optimization, risk management, and operations

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As we see every day -- whether in business or in our personal and professional lives -- decision-making and its consequences, are fraught w...
Sunday, May 30, 2010

BP Oil Rig Environmental and Economic Disaster and Supply Chain Design

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I returned recently from speaking at a workshop in Honolulu, Hawaii, where I heard from many locals of their outright physical pain and dis...
Friday, April 30, 2010

The Last Spring 2010 Lecture in Operations Research / Management Sciences

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Today we were treated to a wonderful lecture by Professor Mehmet Gumus of the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University in Montre...
Sunday, April 25, 2010

Lecture on: Supply Side Story: Risks, Guarantees, Competition and Information Asymmetry

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Next Friday, April 30, 2010, the last Speaker Seminar in Operations Research / Management Sciences of the Spring semester will take place. W...
Saturday, March 27, 2010

Finance -- Everything Worth Knowing and a Great Speaker

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Yesterday, my teenage daughter asked me to write about Everything Worth Knowing in Finance. Coincidentally, and, propitiously yesterday, one...
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...
Sunday, May 3, 2009

Supply chain risk management and the swine flu

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Given the escalating news about the swine flu, I thought that, as a researcher in supply chains and risk management, it would be wise to ste...