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Leadership

The market inside

Many business leaders think of their market as being “out there”, in the customer sphere. Understanding from “in here” what the customer “out there”…

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Leadership

Lessons in Inclusive Leadership from the World of Sports

Growing up in the U.S., I played basketball, rugby, field hockey, and baseball—sports that taught me the value of teamwork and belonging. Living in…

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Logistics & SCM Sustainability

The forgotten role of logistics in achieving net-zero

Logistics is often thought of as merely the process of moving things from one place to another. The appearance of the word on the sides of lorries…

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Logistics & SCM

Uncovering Parallels in Humanitarian and Trafficking Supply Chains to Disrupt Exploitation

While humanitarian supply chains aim to save lives, trafficking supply chains operate with a similarly complex but opposing purpose: exploitation.…

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Leadership

How Voter Support for Authoritarianism Is Linked to Political Anomie

Our study, conducted alongside my colleagues provides intriguing insights into this phenomenon. We discovered that voters are often drawn to…

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Empty shelves in a supermarket.
Logistics & SCM

Improving Access to Drugs: The Critical Role of Supply Chain Risk

A simple way of thinking about medical criticality, supply chain risk and their interactions can lead to more sustainable solutions for drug…

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Logistics & SCM

The Broken Big Pharma Blockbuster Business Model and the Future of Personalized Medicine

The pharmaceutical industry, once dominated by the development, production, and sale of blockbuster drugs, is undergoing a paradigm shift.…

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Logistics & SCM

Understanding the Value of Reshoring: Customer Perspectives on Local Manufacturing

Reshoring, the process of bringing manufacturing back to a firm's home country, is becoming increasingly important in today's supply chain dynamics.…

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Digital Transformation

Virtual Worlds' Second Life and Dive

Virtual worlds have garnered media excitement twice: first, after Second Life's debut in 2003, and again in 2021 following Mark Zuckerberg's Metaverse…

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