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Supply Chain Redesign: A Conversation with Lennox International’s Keith Nash

Talking Logistics

Adam joined Manhattan in 2002 after the acquisition of Logistics.com where he supported their SaaS Transportation solution. Adam graduated from the University of Massachusetts in 1997 with a degree in Natural Resource Economics.

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Post-pandemic Supply Chains

Enterra Insights

“As countries shut down, stock markets crumble and economic activity slows to a crawl,” writes Yossi Sheffi ( @YossiSheffi ), the Elisha Gray II Professor of Engineering Systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “it is hard to believe that in a few months the coronavirus crisis may be over.”[1]

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E-commerce and the Digital Path to Purchase

Enterra Insights

According to the staff at Klarna, “The first glimpse of online commerce was experienced by some students at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) in the 70’s. 1997-2002 — Collapse of the dot.com bubble. ”[2]. The evolution of e-commerce. That’s how the story of online commerce begins.”[3] The rest is history.

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Professor Yossi Sheffi on Resilience, Visibility, and Biggest Risks this Holiday Season

Elementum

Dr. Yossi Sheffi is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , where he serves as Director of the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics (MIT CTL). Professor Yossi Sheffi was on a sabbatical in the UK in 2002, when the world was still reeling from the 9/11 attacks.

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Debating the Purpose of Education

Enterra Insights

“In 2002, 58% of jobs required low digital skills, 40% required medium digital skills and just 5% required high digital skills. … As Massachusetts Institute of Technology economist David Autor and others have long pointed out, the increased digitalization of the U.S. workforce and came up with five major conclusions.

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Are You Ready for the Sharing Economy?

MIT Supply Chain

In 1999, Ante Danielson and Robin Chase of Cambridge, Massachusetts, developed the idea of renting cars for short time slots and positioning them in convenient spaces around the city. In 2000, the business took off in Boston and Cambridge, and by 2002 had expanded with the opening of offices in Washington, D.C. and New York.