Operations
Supply Chains & Logistics Prepare for the Bullwhip’s Sting
Growing inflation and supply chain issues are raising concerns that a recession is looming. But companies can prepare.
Yossi Sheffi
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Supply Chains & Logistics
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Tim Kraft and Yanchong Zheng
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Corporate Social Responsibility
How Supply Chain Transparency Boosts Business Value
Increasing visibility into supply chain practices takes work but can lead to new market opportunities.
Tim Kraft and Yanchong Zheng
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Online Shoppers Don’t Always Care About Faster Delivery
Retailers should analyze customers’ preferences before deciding how to optimize their delivery networks.
Pedro Amorim and Nicole DeHoratius
Leading Change
How to Reduce the Risk of Colliding Change Initiatives
New research points to consistency as a pivotal success factor when companies launch concurrent change initiatives.
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Technology Innovation Strategy
How a Startup Mindset Brews Innovation at a Global Scale
Tassilo Festetics shares how in-house technology innovation is helping AB InBev enhance its products and service.
Tassilo Festetics, interviewed by Chris Clearfield
Supply Chains & Logistics
Rethinking Industry’s Role in a National Emergency
The U.S.’s approach to its Strategic National Stockpile needs to be overhauled before the next pandemic. Here’s how.
ManMohan S. Sodhi and Christopher S. Tang
Supply Chains & Logistics
The Right Way to Mix and Match Your Customers
Understanding patterns of demand across your customer base can help smooth out costly spikes and slumps.
William Schmidt et al.
Global Strategy
How COVID-19 Will Change the Geography of Competition
Three trends are reshaping global strategy and operations for the world’s largest companies.
Niccolò Pisani
Supply Chains & Logistics
Achieving Supply Chain Transparency
Karen Zheng, an associate professor of operations at the MIT Sloan School of Management, outlines how some companies have made their supply chain operations more transparent.
Karen Zheng and Paul Michelman
Developing Strategy
Four Questions for Appraising Your Alliances
A new year is dawning. Do you know the state of your company’s alliances?
Theodore Kinni
Analytics & Business Intelligence
Machine Learning and Data Analytics in the Pandemic Era
In this webinar, Jeffrey D. Camm and Thomas H. Davenport explain how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the practice of data analytics.