First, empowered consumers: How will the Internet disrupt supply chains next?
Do you remember “You’ve Got Mail”? In the 1998 hit movie, the Internet enables romance to flower between Tom Hanks, who played a big box bookstore owner, and Meg Ryan, an independent bookstore owner. Ironically, that same Internet has now clobbered big box bookstores.
Consumer wearables: Biosensors and health care
Bioscientists, technologists and health care experts talked about current health care challenges and the opportunities to redefine and resolve them at the 2015 Symposium on Innovation in the Health Sector, hosted by the W. P. Carey School’s Health Sector Supply Chain Research Consortium.
Upping the ante: New skills needed in finance, accounting, and tax
Finance, accounting, and tax have a longstanding legacy in businesses of all shapes and sizes, but it’s no secret the business world is changing.
MBA students see supply chain excellence firsthand
A group of 15 supply chain students from the W. P. Carey Full-time MBA visited three companies in the Portland area — Daimler, Nike, and Columbia Sportswear.
Real-world context adds value to MS-GL curriculum
Every year, an off-campus trip provides students in the W. P. Carey Master of Science in Global Logistics (MS‑GL) program with an exclusive look at global logistics infrastructure.
CAPS Research: Sourcing supply chain insights
After nearly three decades, CAPS Research remains the go-to source for supply chain management research and benchmarking, examining the current issues that affect industry. This year CAPS has a new leadership team dedicated to accelerating the center’s responsiveness to business needs.
Growing secondary markets new link in supply chains
Thirty-some years ago, unwanted or unsold products often ended their all-too-brief lives by being dumped in landfills. Today they are the basis of what professor of supply chain management Dale Rogers calls a growing slice of the U.S. Gross Domestic Product: secondary markets.
Relief on wheels: Research cuts costs of humanitarian aid
The recent surge of migrants from the war-torn North African coast and the devastating earthquake in Nepal has focused international attention on the needs of refugees and disaster victims.
Improving health care: It’s about better execution
Brent James, chief quality officer and executive director at the Intermountain Institute for Healthcare Leadership, gives of examples of how to deliver better health care, cheaper at the 2015 Mark McKenna Health Care Management Lecture, hosted by the Health Sector Supply Chain Research Consortium