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Is Your Supply Chain Ready for the Congestion Crisis?

Harvard Business Review

For instance, the average transit times to move containers from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to Chicago grew from 84 hours at the end of 2004 to 120 hours by early 2015. The Future of Operations. The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses. Insight Center. Sponsored by GE Corporate.

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Take Your Show on the Road

Harvard Business Review

They’re envisioning well-designed, self-contained environments, tricked-out with the latest high-tech, high-touch technology. A food company, for example, outfits vehicles with entire kitchens to demonstrate the most effective and creative ways to use its specialty food ingredients in food service operations.

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U.S. Trade Lobbying Strategy for the 21st Century

Harvard Business Review

Yet with a deadlock among governments leading to the dropping of discussion of global negotiations on public procurement and investment policies in 2004, and little interest in opening service-sector markets, the round has been narrowed to a focus on agricultural and manufactured trade. Still, there is a clear basis for a deal.

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The Reinvention of NASA

Harvard Business Review

Since the Apollo program, NASA has faced funding cuts, competition from other nations for space leadership, and a radical restructuring of its operating environment due to the emergence of commercial space – all of which have forced the organization to change its ways of thinking and operating.

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What You Won’t Hear About Trade and Manufacturing on the Campaign Trail

Harvard Business Review

A big reason is technological complexity. In 2012, when the United States imposed tariffs of 31% to 250% on solar panels produced in China, Chinese manufacturers quickly moved their final assembly operations for U.S.-bound Long gone are the days of vertical integration when a manufacturer could make everything itself. Factor costs.