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Why Quants Should Manage Your Supply Chain Risk

Harvard Business Review

And, when political turmoil in Egypt, Libya and elsewhere in the Mideast erupted, many businesses could only watch and wait to learn what it would mean for their supply chains. Risk in supply chain is not a potential cost — it is an actual cost, very real and borne by every product and service company, whether they understand it or not.

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Yes, You Can Predict Supply-Chain Disasters

Harvard Business Review

Creating a common global information system that links information about environmental, social, political, and economic events and provides early warnings of potential disruptions. In developing this system, leaders involved must keep three things in mind: Supply-chain collaboration rapidly gives way to competition in post-disaster recovery.