Sitemap - 2023 - Gad’s Newsletter
Amazon’s Holiday Shopping List: 250,000 Workers!
How did COVID (Really) Shape Supply Chains?
Hoka’s Marathon: The Slow Dance of Strategic Growth and Sneaker Economics
Serving Up Truth with a Side of Whopper: Should Burger King be More Transparent?
Knowing Me, Knowing You: IKEA Takes a Chance on SF
Sky’s the Limit: Unraveling the Economics of All-You-Can-Fly Passes
Bending it Like Beckham: Amazon’s Attempt at Groceries and the Curve of Scalability
Chaos Monkey: Unraveling the Vulnerabilities of Today's Global Supply Chain
Airport Queue Management: Is More Information Better?
Wimbledon’s Queuing Culture: More than Tennis
Building Bridges: The Human Side of Operations
Hourly Pay Keeps the Multihomer at Bay
The Miseducation of Continuous Improvement
The Operational, Economic, and Taylor Swift Drivers of Tipping
Your Doctor May Soon be a Gig Worker
Unraveling Shein’s Supply Chain: Foundation, Reshoring, and Controversy
First Principles Thinking: Tesla Unboxing the Assembly Line
Doing Justice to Immigration Queues
Poke-No-More: Leveraging Poka-Yoke for Quality Healthcare
The Most Evergreen Forecast: Your Flight will be Delayed
From DVDs to Streaming: Netflix’s Less Enduring Moat
Scaling the DTC Jungle: Walmart’s Amazon Envy and the Bonobos-sized Misadventure
Outsmarting Algorithms (and Firms): Anticipatory Behavior in the Labor Market
When Warehouses Take Flight: Rise of the Drones
Surge Pricing is Surging: It’s an Unfair Game
Liquidating Cancelled Inventory
N(GW)IMBY: No Gig Workers In My Back Yard
Don’t Recall Me. I’ll Recall You
McDonald’s (no longer) Loves to See you Smile
It’s the time of the Season for … Burritos?
In-N-Out is Going East: Burger as a Religious Experience?