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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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Step into one of Maryum Al-Hammami’s Southern California toy stores called The Game Chest, and you'll find the experience is as important as a purchase.
The supply chain disruption is shorthand for problems from factory closures to workers who are not working anymore.
New research in the INFORMS journal Management Science finds that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) could enhance public safety by employing new data-driven approaches to identify adverse effects of drugs faster and more reliably, which would improve the regulatory decision-making and oversight processes. This approach would substantially contrast with the current FDA approaches for monitoring drug safety, which suffers major drawbacks (e.g., they are based on voluntary reports that can result in inaccurate or untimely decisions).
Commercial brokers have always crunched data to make sure an investment makes financial sense. But high-tech analytics can take that analysis to a new level.
Opher Baron, operations management orofessor, Rotman School of Management, joins BNN Bloomberg to discuss the global supply chain disruption and what businesses can expect in the coming months. He also notes that it will take time for firms around the world to work through altering their supply chains.
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