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Why Quants Should Manage Your Supply Chain Risk

Harvard Business Review

When ash clouds from the Icelandic volcano darkened the skies over Europe, planes were grounded, interrupting business travel and disrupting air freight. A problem is that supply chain managers are rarely trained in quantitative risk concepts, either during the formal phase of their education or on the job.

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An Unexpected Lesson from Mandela: Why Context Matters

Harvard Business Review

From 1994 to 1995, I was traveling across Africa, exploring interest among various governments and telecommunications service companies in investment in the continent’s first undersea fiber-optic network. These were engineers and network planners; surely, they understood economics and net present value analysis.