Feb 16, 2016
NORTH CAROLINA’S SUPPLY CHAIN Conduit for Commerce & Economic Development An Economic Impact Statement & Analysis This recent study on the state of the supply chain industry and its impact on the…
Jan 21, 2016
The current environment we find ourselves in is indeed perilous. As the stock market continues to spin up and down in a volatile fashion, brokers and Wall Street types are…
Nov 4, 2015
I presented at Supply Chain Outlook 2015, an event hosted by the Supply Chain Management Review in Chicago on Monday morning. This was an excellent venue for discussion of emerging…
Aug 14, 2015
In the recent issue of Industrial Biotechnology, Jay Golden and I published a set of insights related to the challenges that exist as part of the industrial biobased economy. As…
May 24, 2015
I participated in the Diversity Alliance 4 Science event last week held in Newark, NJ. For those of you who don’t know, this is a fantastic event held by most…
Apr 9, 2015
Lynn Good, Duke Energy’s CEO, spoke at NC State this week, and shared her many thoughts on leadership and transformation. Her vision for what is otherwise often considered a stable and…
Mar 13, 2015
I have been working with Jay Golden at Duke University on the biobased forecasting project for the USDA, seeking to understand the current scope of the biobased product market (…
Feb 25, 2015
Joydeep Ganguly from Biogen Idec spoke in my Supply Chain Relationships class last week, and shared his insights on how Biogen’s supply chain evolved. Since graduating from the NC State Jenkins…
Jan 13, 2015
Last year around this time I made a lot of predictions about what 2014 would hold in store…Let’s revisit some of these, and see what has happened (or what hasn’t!)…
Dec 15, 2014
Oil prices continued to plummet last week to below $60, and experts predict that it could continue to drop. All of a sudden, what seemed like a boost to the…