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Faceless AI Will Not Relegate the Social Side of Business to the Past

MIT Supply Chain

For example, when GM faced chip shortages after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, CEO Dan Akerson used his position on the board of chipmaker Freescale to seek an alternative source of chips. “I For example, Kansas-based Invista Inc., So many other vendors have such offices around Walmart that the area is dubbed “Vendorville.”

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Pull Your Own Upset

Tompkins Blog

In 2011 Virginia Commonwealth shocked Kansas. In 2010 Butler overthrew Kansas State and Syracuse. Rather than submit, Lehigh hit Duke with all its muscle in 2012. From the opening tip-off, Lehigh played with surprising aggression, forcing turnover and drawing hard fouls. Lesson learned: intimidation works.

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This Week in Logistics News (July 14-18, 2014)

Talking Logistics

I wrote those words in December 2010 , one of my supply chain and logistics predictions for 2011. Kansas has allocated some of its gas-tax revenue to pay for Medicaid and schools. Nationwide, making interest payments on debt used to fund existing infrastructure projects is one of the biggest state expenditures.

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[INFOGRAPHIC, REPORT, & INTERACTIVE MAP] The US Manufacturing Workforce & Making it In America

GlobalTranz

percent, 136,700 jobs), and Kansas (11.9 Estimates of total manufacturing employment for each of 25 industries for each region in 2011 were obtained from the survey and used to develop estimates of the distribution of manufacturing employment in each state in the representative period. percent, 491,900 jobs), Wisconsin (16.3

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Mobile Technology in Education: Is the Devil in the Screen rather than the Details?

Enterra Insights

Back in the fall of 2011 members of the Global Literacy Collaborative decided to deploy some tablet computers in Ethiopia, a country in which over half the population is illiterate.[2] The benefits of mobile technology in education. 2] The Collaborative selected two villages in which they would provide children with computers. .”

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