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Yes, You Can Predict Supply-Chain Disasters

Harvard Business Review

To do that, all the parties that have a stake in disruptions — members of supply chains, insurers, governments, and markets — should proactively develop a responsiveness system that would be able to predict different types and levels of supply-chain disasters.

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Why Quants Should Manage Your Supply Chain Risk

Harvard Business Review

When Thai flooding created significant shortages in the hard disc drive market, manufacturers lost millions of dollars. The good news is that it is coming, little by little, as leading thinkers in industry, academics and the insurance/risk industry itself rethink this topic from top to bottom.