BALTIMORE, MD, April 21, 2025 – Courts around the world are struggling to keep up with growing caseloads, leaving individuals and businesses waiting months – sometimes years – for resolution. But a new study in the INFORMS journal Manufacturing & Service Operations Management has uncovered a surprisingly simple way to speed up the system that doesn’t require hiring more judges.
Beijing has a virtual monopoly on rare earth minerals—the materials that power everything from military planes to your electric toothbrush.
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The Covid-19 pandemic exposed Americans to severe shortages of toilet paper, paper towels, PPE, and semiconductor chips. Now, in November 2021, retailers and the public are dreading holiday shortages.
Shelves are empty. Online orders take much longer to arrive. The media are warning of a Christmas devoid of presents. The supply chain has probably affected you firsthand in some way, the shock of expensive or absent products likely throwing your world out of whack and bringing mild panic. But there are several prominent myths circulating about the supply crunch and its causes.
The nation’s supply chain crunch is driving up the cost of just about everything. Now you can add toys to the list.
Rescuing Christmas from the supply-chain Grinch won’t be easy. To make it happen, policymakers and business leaders must take an expansive approach, paying attention to logistics beyond our nation’s clogged-up harbors.
If you own stocks, chances are good you have heard the term ESG. It stands for environmental, social, and governance, and it’s a way to laud corporate leaders who take sustainability—including climate change—and social responsibility seriously, and punish those who do not.
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