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Freight train cars sit in a Norfolk Southern rail yard on Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2022, in Atlanta.

Rail strike would be ‘absolutely catastrophic’ to supply chains, Northeastern expert warns

President Joe Biden celebrated Thursday a tentative labor agreement that averted a strike of U.S. freight trains. But the crisis has not yet been averted, warns Nada Sanders, distinguished professor of supply chain management at Northeastern.

by Ian Thomsen September 16, 2022

Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs David Madigan presents the 2022 Klein Lecturer medallion to Dr. Nada Sanders, Distinguished Professor of Supply Chain Management in the D'Amore-McKim School of Business in the John D. O'Bryant African-American Institute Cabral Center. Photo by Alyssa Stone/Northeastern University

How to simplify complex supply chains amid unprecedented disruption

If the COVID-19 pandemic showed businesses that depend on offshore production anything, it’s that one stoppage along these vast delivery channels can propagate across the entire system, Nada Sanders, distinguished professor of supply-chain management at Northeastern, said in the annual Robert D. Klein Lecture on Tuesday.

by Tanner Stening April 5, 2022

Why aren’t we using the global gas crisis to go green?

The stresses surrounding the global petroleum market should be hastening governments to lessen their dependence on fossil fuels, says Jennie C. Stephens, Dean’s Professor of Sustainability Science and Policy at Northeastern. And yet the world seems to be doubling-down on oil and gas in defiance of an alarming UN climate report Monday.

by Ian Thomsen April 5, 2022

A truck is refueling, surrounded by banana trees.

What does the war in Ukraine have to do with the price of bananas? It’s complicated.

Surging oil and gas prices will spill over into the supply chains for just about everything that has to be carted around the world, says Nada Sanders, university distinguished professor of supply-chain management at Northeastern. In the case of bananas—which have a “very long” footprint—the story is a complicated one.

by Tanner Stening and Eva Botkin-Kowacki March 23, 2022

A shopper scans her phone to enter Amazon Go Grocery in Seattle, Washington.

A ‘red alert’ for workers: Businesses embrace automation during the COVID-19 pandemic

A shortage of workers is convincing U.S. employers to automate their businesses at an accelerated rate—leading to fewer job opportunities in the near future. “Many jobs are going to be pushed out by technology,” says Nada Sanders, distinguished professor of supply chain management at Northeastern. “And once they go, they're not coming back.”

by Ian Thomsen December 7, 2021

Here’s why your presents may not arrive in time for the holidays

Supply-chain shortages will distress the global economy far beyond the holiday shopping season, says Nada Sanders, distinguished professor of supply chain management at Northeastern. “The holidays are going to be dismal,” adds Sanders, who warns that government and business leaders are missing an opportunity to mitigate the crisis.

by Ian Thomsen October 22, 2021

What would it take to vaccinate the world against COVID-19?

In a world of 7.9 billion people, some 5.57 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered globally. But in low-income countries, only 1.9% of the population has received even one dose. At the root of that vaccine inequity, say Northeastern experts, is an issue of who is calling the metaphorical shots and why.

by Eva Botkin-Kowacki September 8, 2021

The COVID-19 crisis in India could cause a global economic chain reaction

Counterfeit COVID-19 vaccines and fragile global supply chains could make a bad situation worse in India, where the pace of vaccinations in India continues to drop as cases of COVID-19 in the country soar—a humanitarian crisis that could also have wide-reaching supply-chain consequences around the world, say Northeastern scholars of supply chain management and criminology.

by Molly Callahan May 12, 2021

Close-up of a semiconductor chip in Matteo Rinaldi's lab. Rinaldi is a professor of electrical and computer engineering.

There's a shortage of semiconductor chips. That may be a good thing.

The shortage of the chips that serve as the brainpower in millions of electronic devices has shown, yet again, how brittle global supply chains are. But, say Northeastern professors who study the technology and supply chain management, it's a chance to re-imagine electronics, and how we make them.

by Molly Callahan April 20, 2021

What does the Johnson & Johnson vaccine pause mean for all COVID-19 shots?

With distribution of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine temporarily on ice, “we’re putting really all our eggs in the basket of Pfizer and Moderna” to inoculate the millions of people in the U.S. who will become eligible for a shot on April 19, says Nada Sanders, distinguished professor of supply chain management. And that’s a risky, if necessary, bet.

by Eva Botkin-Kowacki April 13, 2021

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