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Does the Size of a Firm Aid in Renewable Energy Initiatives?
British Petroleum (BP) has been producing solar cells in a small way, for 30 years. Now it is investing in Beyond Petroleum initiative. In a joint venture with India’s Tata, BP expects to produce…
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Sustainability & Innovation
In 2003, America’s power generation industry spent less on R&D as a proportion of turnover than the country’s pet food industry. With a changed perspective on environmental issues in the last few years this…
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Supply Chain Disaster Management
1. In compiling preliminary data for its Supply Chain Visibility and Performance Study, Boston-based Aberdeen Group found that 82 percent of companies claim to be concerned about supply chain resiliency to disruptions, but only…
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Supply Chain Innovations for Chemical Sector
Below are the answers given by Alex Royez (Vice President, Executive Director of Global Supply Chains at Dow Corning, the supplier of silicon-based products, technologies and solutions) and Greg Mekjian (Executive Vice President, North…
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Proactive Management of Supply Chain Risk
The following is the summary of an article titled, "Impact and Ubiquity: Two reasons to proactively manage risk" by Patrick M. Bryne. Minimizing supply chain risk is the most important issue in global business…












