Past Events Archive

The Welfare Effect of Road Congestion Pricing: Experimental Evidence and Equilibrium Implications

Nov 26, 2018 at 12:00PM - Nov 26, 2018 at 1:00PM

MIT E40-356 (SCM Lab)

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The textbook policy response to traffic externalities is congestion pricing. However, quantifying the welfare consequences of pricing policies requires detailed knowledge of commuter preferences and of the road technology. I study the peak-hour traffic congestion equilibrium using rich travel behavior data and a field experiment grounded in theory. Using a newly developed smartphone app, I collected a panel data set with precise GPS coordinates for over 100,000 commuter trips in Bangalore, India. To identify the key preference parameters in my model – the value of time spent driving...

Future of Retail

Nov 14, 2018 at 8:00AM - Nov 15, 2018 at 12:00PM

This MIT CTL Roundtable is exclusively for members of the MIT CTL Supply Chain Exchange and invited guests. If you are not a member of the Supply Chain Exchange and are interested in attending this roundtable, please reach out to Katie Date at <datecl@mit.edu>. 

Location: MIT E40-356 (SCM Lab)

This invitation-only MIT CTL Roundtable will address the economic and social impacts of the ever-changing retail landscape, and generate productive supply chain solutions across various stakeholders (i.e., suppliers, logistics-service providers, manufacturers, and consumers).

Critical Questions Live and Streaming: Is it up to business to save the planet?

Nov 01, 2018 at 1:00PM - Nov 01, 2018 at 2:00PM

Killian Hall

474-160 Memorial Drive

Cambridge, MA 02139

How much can we expect business to lead on sustainability?

What should be a company’s biggest priority: Serving its shareholders, providing jobs, or addressing the health of our planet? Often, these goals are at odds. We’re bringing together two leading voices in the sustainability debate to wrestle with the issues in what is sure be a lively conversation. MIT’s Yossi Sheffi and sustainability expert and author Andrew Winston will debate and discuss the role of for-profits in supporting—and investing in—sustainability goals. Come here the point-counterpoint, moderated by Paul Michelman...

Blockchain Applications in Supply Chain Management

Oct 09, 2018 at 11:30AM - Oct 10, 2018 at 5:00PM

This MIT CTL Roundtable is exclusively for members of the MIT CTL Supply Chain Exchange and invited guests. If you are not a member of the Supply Chain Exchange and are interested in attending this roundtable, please reach out to Katie Date at <datecl@mit.edu>.  

Location: MIT E40-356 (SCM Lab)

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This invitation-only MIT CTL Roundtable will comprise a half-day workshop to explain blockchain and develop a common understanding of blockchain technology, followed by a full-day roundtable session to examine the most promising applications in the supply chain domain.

The US Maritime Sector: Sustainable? Resilient? AntiFragile? Lessons from the Domestic Energy Boom

Sep 28, 2018 at 12:00PM - Sep 28, 2018 at 1:00PM

E40-356 (SCM Lab)

The introduction of new horizontal drilling technologies has led to explosive growth in the domestic production of crude oil and natural gas, creating new freight flows by different modes of transport, especially impacting the pipeline, rail and maritime sectors.  Several significant and dramatic incidents, triggered a study by the Transportation Research Board, which assessed the experience of all the impacted modes.  Professor Philip was a member of the TRB Study Committee and will report on its findings, and on his team’s additional work looking more deeply into the safety experience of the...

Balancing Green - Lecture and Q&A

Sep 27, 2018 at 4:00PM - Sep 27, 2018 at 5:30PM

Balancing Green When to Embrace Sustainability in a Business (and When Not To)

Lecture and Q&A

D'Amore-McKim School of Business

310 Behrakis Center 

30 Leon St
Boston, MA 02115

 

Yossi Sheffi Lecture - D'Amore-McKim School of Business

Please join the Supply Chain and Information Management Group in welcoming Yossi Sheffi, Elisha Gray II Professor, Engineering Systems; Director, Center for Transportation and Logistics, Civil and Environmental Engineering, MIT, who will be discussing his book.

Prof. Sheffi will offer a pragmatic take on how businesses of all sizes balance the competing demands of profitability and employment with sustainability. Prof. Sheffi's book will be available for purchase and signing at the end of the program.

Mission Zero: Interface's Journey to Zero Negative Environmental Impact

Sep 18, 2018 at 4:00PM - Sep 18, 2018 at 5:00PM

E40-356 (SCM Lab)

Lisa Conway, Vice President of Sustainability for Interface will visit CTL will speak about Interface’s progressive agenda on carbon emissions reduction, recycling and more.

MIT SCx Supply Chain Bootcamp

Jul 30, 2018 at 8:30AM - Aug 03, 2018 at 5:00PM

MIT campus

The MIT SCx Supply Chain Bootcamp is an intensive, highly interactive education program that will build upon the learning experience of the SCx learner.  In the Bootcamp, learners will put the SCx concepts to work just as managers and executives would do within the firm – using the tools and analytics to make critical management decisions regarding the supply chain and the business.

Supply Chains Driving Strategic Advantage: Managing Dynamics & Innovating the Future

Jun 12, 2018 at 9:30AM - Jun 15, 2018 at 3:00PM

Are Truck Driving Jobs Headed for Rapid Elimination?

May 24, 2018 at 12:00PM - May 24, 2018 at 1:00PM

E40-356 (SCM Lab)

While there is a good deal of media coverage that portends the wholesale elimination of trucking jobs due to autonomous technology, there is little careful study of the labor market impacts.