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.
| The Trump administration’s back-and-forth moves on tariffs for technology products are stirring confusion in a sector heavily reliant on global supply chains. |
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President Biden and China’s President Xi shook hands on Nov. 14 for the first time since Biden became U.S. president. This in-person meeting on the sidelines of the G20 Summit meeting dialed down the tension and may prevent a new cold war between both countries. At least for now.
Behind almost every product sold is a supply chain struggling with harm to and exclusion of women, despite evidence showing that advancing gender equality improves business and human outcomes.
People with certain conditions, such as diabetes or high blood pressure, are often advised to improve their diets to control symptoms and deter progression of their ailments. But many find themselves unable or unwilling to follow a rigid “one-size-fits-all” nutrition plan recommended by their doctors because those approaches do not always take into account patients’ food preferences and habits.
RFID has long been a useful tool for better supply chain management. It still is. While RFID is a comparatively older technology, industry analysts predict RFID use in the supply chain will keep growing.
Hard-won gains from vaccines are at risk. Far too many people still do not have access to the vaccines they need, with nearly 20 million infants missing out each year, according to Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO).
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