Dr. Randy Kirchain, Principal Research Scientist, MIT Material Systems Lab (MIT MSL)MIT MSL is working with industry to identify the materials supply constraints and price fluctuations that could impact the future viability of businesses. Dr. Kirchain will explain how ...
Megacities — cities with a population of at least 10 million people — are growing in size and number, and are expected to account for about 20 percent of world GDP within a decade.
Both the number and range of electronic data sources available to businesses are increasing at a phenomenal rate.
Doug Cooper shares some of the challenges and solutions for managing global supply chain talent, with a special focus on overseas assignments.
Jim Rice, MIT CTLCrossroads 2012: Supply Chains in Transition: The Driving Forces of ChangeJune 28, 2012 - 08:00am - 05:00pm EDTStata Center (Building 32-123)The growth of megacities, projected shortages of vital human and natural resources, and a dramatic increase in the amount of market data ...
MIT CTL Global Leadership Lecture: The Future of Logistics and Trade - Scott Davis, CEO UPS (9/27) UPS Chairman and CEO Scott Davis speaks with MIT Professor Yossi Sheffi in a candid and wide ranging conversation about logistics, global commerce, and other timely issues. As a member of the ...
03/09/2010 4:00 PM 3"270Joseph Sussman, J R East Professor of Civil and Environmental EngineeringDescription: In the nineteen fifties and sixties, students of transportation focused on building infrastructure and applied lessons from the physical sciences to designing ...
02/23/2010 4:00 PM 3"270David Simchi"Levi, Professor of Engineering Systems and Civil EngineeringDescription: The need for flexible management of supply chains to increase operational efficiencies could not be greater, as modern companies outsource and manufacture overseas. David Simchi" Levi ...
This month, we thought it might be helpful to meet some current MLOG and ZLOG students describe their experiences in the program live and in person. The webinar will introduce you to current MLOG and ZLOG students. Hear from them how their first semester went, what a ...
10/27/2009 4:00 PM 32"124Edgar Blanco, Research Director at the MIT Center for Transportation & LogisticsDescription: Consumers will soon be able to quantify the carbon footprint of products they consume, and that could begin to change consumer behavior. The common ...
Supply chain management offers a world of opportunities for those with degree specialization, because it is the backbone of so many different kinds of companies. Almost every business out there - manufacturing, retail, service, and public sector - must have reliable ...
Supply chain management offers a world of opportunities for those with degree specialization, because it is the backbone of so many different kinds of companies. Almost every business out there - manufacturing, retail, service, and public sector - must have reliable ...
CTL Last Wednesday Webinars @ Noon Series, June 24: There has been much research on how to make the production of renewable energy more economically viable, but relatively little on the delivery of this vital resource. A collaborative effort between MIT CTL, the ...
MLOG/ZLOG Webinar, June 3, 2009 - Each year companies work with students from the MLOG and ZLOG programs on thesis projects from August to June. Students benefit by being able to work closely with professionals on a challenging supply chain problem that will turn into ...
MLOG/ZLOG Webinar, February 27, 2009 - Many organizations, from the Red Cross to pharmaceutical firms, depend on efficient supply chains to deliver goods, services, and people to parts of the world where they are desperately needed. Learn about how you could have a ...
CTL Partners Last Wednesday Webinars @ Noon Series, May 27, 2009: Dr. Jonathan L.S. Byrnes, MIT Senior Lecturer and President of Jonathan Byrnes & Company, foresees a dramatic change the way supply chains will be financed in the not too distant future.
CTL Supply Chain 2020 (SC2020) Project is a multi-year research effort to identify and analyze the factors that are critical to the success of future supply chains. This pioneering project will map out the process innovations that will underpin successful supply ...
CTL Crossroads Conference held March 26, 2009 - CTL Researchers and Directors summarize the issues that were discussed during the day's focus sessions.
CTL Crossroads Conference held on March 26, 2009 featured this presentation by Kevin Smith, President & CEO of Sustainable Supply Chain Consulting.
MIT CTL Crossroads Conference 2009 presentation by keynote speaker Dr. Andrew W. Lo, Harris & Harris Group Professor at Sloan School of Management, Director of Sloan School's Laboratory of Financial Engineering, CTL Research Affiliate, and Alphasimplex Chairman ...