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Autonomous Trucks – Industry Savior or Environmental Threat?
JB Hunt has made a half-hearted, regulation-mandated attempt at curbing climate change. With autonomous trucks on the horizon, is it time to get more serious?
A Digitally-Enabled Supply Chain in Bloom
How digitalization is eliminating waste and breathing new life into the cut-flower supply chain
The last dance of Just-in-Time?
A Tsunami struck Japan in March 2011 generating a collapse of Toyota supply chain. Starting in 2011, Toyota decided to completely revise its famous Toyota Production System and forced suppliers to hold a few months’ worth of inventory, threatening the entire philosophy of Just-in-Time. In 2015, Toyota was satisfied of its revised production system and ready to deal with future hits. Toyota didn’t know that the second biggest earthquake in the modern history of Japan would soon arrive.
Chile’s Ministry of Energy: Market-Driven Approaches to Tackling Climate Change
This essay examines how Chile’s Ministry of Energy is successfully subjecting renewable energy projects to market economics and providing a forum for fair competition and innovation by implementing an auction-driven pricing strategy.
Free Apple Watch! and other ways Aetna is embracing digitization
Aetna is using digital technologies to create efficiencies in the health insurance supply chain.
Impact of News Digitalization on Democracies
Technology platforms have digitized the media supply chain leading to proliferation of news. But can they manage what they have created?
Climate Change – A Tough Nut to Crack
Is your favorite snack doing more harm than good? How does climate change impact almond production? Is almond farming fueling environmental degradation?
Wells Fargo: What Are The Obligations of a Financier?
Wells Fargo claims to be a leader on environmental sustainability among banks, but does it have an obligation to go farther?
Tesla’s War on “King Coal”
An introduction to Tesla's vision for and the challenges it faces on the journey towards a solar-powered civilization.