Social enterprises empower communities
MIT students launch social enterprises that work with communities to foster financial and environmental sustainability.
Launching a vital link in the Ebola-response effort
With help from MIT Humanitarian Response Lab, a cargo flight carries much-needed supplies to support health systems and Ebola-response operations in Liberia.
Simchi-Levi and colleagues win INFORMS Daniel H. Wagner Prize for Excellence in Operations Research Practice
Team awarded for utilizing Simchi-Levi’s Risk Exposure Index to identify risk and mitigate disruptions in the automotive supply chain.
Upcoming conference puts supply chain management in broad context
Host Yossi Sheffi thinks supply chains change, and are changed by, the world.
Logistics clusters: An alternative path to economic success
Yossi Sheffi explores how distribution centers can spur economic growth and innovation.
Digitization, decentralization, and omni-channel retail: The future of supply chains
Chris Caplice directs research to help companies around the world respond to the latest developments in supply chain management.
Hidden risk in supply chains
Analysis shows no correlation between a manufacturer’s total expenditure with a supplier and the cost of a supply disruption.
Procter & Gamble joins MIT Forum Technology Advisory Board
P&G, one of world’s major consumer goods companies, will collaborate with the board on industry challenges and opportunities.
In The World: Mapping the logistics of megacities
New open-source online maps generated by MIT students provide details of urban supply chains.
Chairman of McEwen Mining to speak at MIT big data conference
Rob McEwen will discuss how big data and the Internet led to a major gold strike, transforming the mining industry.
MIT professor Erik Brynjolfsson to deliver keynote at big data conference
The MIT Forum for Supply Chain Innovation and the Accenture and MIT Alliance in Business Analytics will host the conference at the Cambridge Marriott.