Weird behavior of airlines

Posted on October 19, 2011 by | Leave a comment

What are the consequences of this plan? Does it make any sense from an operations standpoint? how about what Marty L suggests?

American Airlines will pay you to check a bag « The Operations Room

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Sustainable Companies

Posted on October 18, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Here are the new rankings. How many ofthese are basically product companies and how many are basically service companies? Iw it easier  to be sustainable by some definition if you are a service company? We used to talk a lot about clean industry in California and in rural communities.

Newsweek Green Rankings 2011 – The Daily Beast

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Supply chain disruptions – do competitors help?

Posted on October 12, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Interesting stories. Note that Marty says the competitors  may have ulterior motives in bailing out their competitor.

Protecting customers from supply chain disruptions « The Operations Room

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