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More Challenges for the Transportation Network: Day 2 of the SCRC Meeting

Supply Chain View from the Field

For example, the widening of the Panama Canal will change the conditions here in North Carolina, as enormous container ships will be circumnavigating the globe. And in Panama a huge transshipment area will grow where they will will do break bulk, put cargo onto smaller ships and send to North America.

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An Economic Primer and Forecast from Professor Mike Walden

NC State SCRC

Housing prices also had a boom, which ran its course, and a dramatic drop-off on housing prices, which dropped by one third after doubling between 2006-2010. But what about North Carolina? There was never a housing crash like this – at a time when banks felt that mortgage loans were the safest bet.

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Biogen Idec designs the innovation supply chain

Supply Chain View from the Field

Since graduating from the NC State Jenkins MBA program in 2006, Joydeep Ganguly has risen through the ranks at Biogen Idec – the world’s oldest independent biotechnology company and the largest biotech employer in North Carolina.

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“Culture eats strategy for breakfast”: The argument for creating an analytics culture

NC State SCRC

In 2006, Amazon ( AMZN ) started a revolution. Today’s executives may want to give this old adage a closer look because empirical data continues to underscore just how important culture is to the performance of a firm. Cloudy analytics with a chance of raining costs.