Rob Handfield, professor of operations and supply chain management, explains how container shortages, protein production issues and natural disasters have impacted and will continue to disrupt global supply chains as well as economic recovery. “People are going to see inflation across the board,” said Handfield. “One solution is pushing for legislation for nearshore and bringing
Sebastian Heese, professor of supply chain management, recently released a study of over 2 billion tweets that found companies that face backlash on social media over supply chain issues often see a drop in stock prices. “Supply chain problems, even though they are invisible to the general public who does not care, have … a
Germany took first place in the 2020 Bloomberg Innovation Index, breaking South Korea’s six-year winning streak, while the U.S. fell one notch to No. 9. Singapore’s leap into the third-place ranking returns it to its post from two years ago. The annual Bloomberg Innovation Index, in its eighth year, analyzes dozens of criteria using seven