Operations Articles
Fall 2005
The Best-Laid Plans: Safeguarding Supplies in the Face of Disaster
Hurricane Katrina's impact on Gulf Coast oil refineries highlighted the risk of relying on a concentrated supply source. Professor Awi Federgruen explains what governments and private-sector companies can do to manage supply chain risk.
Summer 2005
Wait Control
A queuing theorist calls for a 21st-century approach to hospital management.
Winter 2004
Seeing Green
Architect William McDonough describes his vision of a world without waste -- where businesses nurture a sustainable planet as well as sustainable growth. BASF, Ford, Gap and Nike, among other clients, are already part of his saved new world.
Winter 2004
The Good Life: How Managers Made the Modern World
From the renowned finance expert, a brief history of the world as we know it, or why he teaches at Columbia Business School.