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Shirts Off to 'Proper' Quality Management!
I don’t have many rules regarding the way I write these weekly posts, but every time two topics I like collide, I have to write about the event that led…
Gad Allon
Jun 20
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“While My Inventory Gently Whips”
Last week, Target announced that its profits will take a short-term hit as it takes several steps to get rid of excess inventory, from marking down…
Gad Allon
Jun 13
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Airline Travel: Midsummer Nightmare
A few weeks ago, Delta announced that it would be reducing about 100 flights a day between July 1 and August 7. In the email to its employees, the…
Gad Allon
Jun 6
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The Baby Formula Shortage: What’s the Root Cause?
One of the most interesting, developing supply chain stories of the last few weeks is the ongoing shortage of baby formula. The story has many…
Gad Allon
May 31
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Self Driving Cars: The Future is Here(!?)
I spent last week in San Francisco as part of the M&T program’s Immersive Week. During this week, the entire sophomore class, along with the faculty of…
Gad Allon
May 23
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Airbnb: Scaling Curation
Last week, many of us received Twitter or email alerts announcing that Airbnb will be going through a major redesign. CEO Brian Chesky, described it as…
Gad Allon
May 16
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Delta to Pay Flight Attendants for Boarding: It’s About Time
A couple of weeks ago, Delta Airlines announced that, effective June 2nd, it will increase boarding time for its single-aisle, narrow-body planes (which…
Gad Allon
May 9
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What happens When Amazon Buys Too Much Prime Space
When serving as Amazon’s CEO, Jeff Bezos liked to advocate for managers within Amazon to make decisions that were easy to reverse. He would call these…
Gad Allon
May 2
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Starbucks: The Rule of Thirds
Howard Shultz is returning as Starbucks’ interim CEO for the third time, following the retirement of the firm’s last CEO, Kevin Johnson. The last time…
Gad Allon
Apr 25
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Bus and Spoke
American Airlines made an interesting announcement earlier this week: for certain routes, it will be putting passengers on a bus rather than a plane…
Gad Allon
Apr 18
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Subscribing to the Great Automation
Last week, Bloomberg had a great article on a new trend involving automation: Robots as a Service. Robots and automation have gone through so many hype…
Gad Allon
Apr 11
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Are Drones the Future of Last-Mile Delivery?
Last week, Flytrex, an on-demand drone delivery startup for food and retail, announced the expansion of its drone delivery service in Texas. A few years…
Gad Allon
Apr 4
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