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  • September 2014 (Revised March 2017)
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Humanitarian Assistance/Disaster Relief: What Can We Learn from Commercial Supply Chains?
By: Willy Shih and Margaret Pierson
Organizing speedy and efficient supply operations for unpredictable major natural disasters was a continuing challenge for the U.S. military, and the 2010 earthquake in Haiti was both unique in its operational scope and political complexity. As he reviewed the...  View Details
Keywords: Supply Chains; Humanitarian Assistance; Disaster Relief; Distribution; Logistics; Supply Chain; Supply Chain Management; Operations; Distribution Industry; United States; Haiti
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  • December 2008 (Revised March 2009)
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The World Food Programme during the Global Food Crisis (A)
By: Anette Mikes, Peter Tufano, Eric D. Werker and Jan-Emmanuel De Neve
Rising food prices threatened an unprecedented number of people around the world with malnutrition or starvation in 2008. The new Executive Director of the United Nations' World Food Programme (WFP)—the world's largest food relief agency—must not only address this...  View Details
Keywords: Food; Globalized Firms and Management; Nutrition; Crisis Management; Business and Government Relations; Nonprofit Organizations; Welfare
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