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In 2024, D'Amore-McKim professor Shawn Bhimani helped launch Supply Trace, which uses machine learning to comb through millions of data points including news clippings, container labels and shipping documents.
“Human motivations haven't changed, but how we engage with content has,” says Bulchandani. “Today, consumers have the control, and our challenge is to create content that captures attention amid overwhelming information.”
While most major airlines have fully resumed operations following a massive IT outage last week that grounded flights around the globe, Delta Airlines is still in the thick of it, canceling an additional 415 flights Tuesday morning as it works to restore service.
Cheng Li and Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra investigated the relationship between misconduct by multinationals' foreign suppliers and subsidiaries and the multinationals' corporate social responsibility (CSR). They explain and find that multinationals whose foreign suppliers or subsidiaries experienced major environmental, social, and governance (ESG) breaches improved their CSR performance after the incident when compared to multinationals without such breaches. Additionally, these responses by multinationals to supplier and subsidiary misbehavior are more robust for multinationals from home countries with CSR mandates. Finally, they found that while major subsidiary misbehavior led to higher internal CSR performance, major supplier misbehavior resulted in higher external CSR performance. The findings provide valuable insights for managers of multinationals dealing with the challenges of managing misbehavior in far-flung suppliers and subsidiaries. They need not only to solve the particular misbehavior, but also implement multinational-wide initiatives to compensate for the breach in the social contract with stakeholders
Wendy's announced last month that it would introduce ‘dynamic pricing' in 2025, and outrage ensued. Assistant Professor John Lowery shares insight on how the move “makes sense.”
Inflation has fallen, but food prices remain high due to “a collision of factors,” according to D'Amore-Mckim school of business experts.
Assistant Professor John Lowrey comprehensive view of the decision-making process guiding grocery stores' waste reduction strategies.
“This was the first time it's ever been done,” says Roy Anderson, who recently won the 2023 D'Amore-McKim Teaching Innovation & Excellence Award for his Supply Chain Virtual Innovation Lab.
The crises in the Panama and Suez canals are currently wreaking havoc on shipping routes, posing a threat to the smooth flow of the supply chain. I