Past Appearances

Professor Yossi Sheffi spoke at the Martin Trust Center for Entrepreneurship annual conference on the future outlook for supply chain and how to manage the current volatile conditions. 

The conference explored how entrepreneurship thrives in traditional corporate environments, shared groundbreaking insights from the MIT community, and built connections with top innovators joining from the world’s leading organizations. 

Professor Yossi Sheffi, Director, MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics, Professor, MIT Institute of Data Science and Society, MIT, was a headliner at the conference and interviewed on-stage, followed by a book signing on his latest book, ‘A Shot in the Arm: How science, engineering and supply chain converged to vaccinate the world’. Yossi took us on the vaccine’s world-changing journey from scientific breakthrough, to coronavirus antidote, to mass vaccination, the mistakes that were made and how the mission could transform the way the world combats

Private Event 

In this session we welcomed esteemed academic and thought leader Yossi Sheffi where he shared his views around the complexity of balancing long term objectives with today's business realities. Yossi explored the complex interdependent nature of supply chains around the world and how the Russian invasion derails many long term plans.

Private Event

Professor Yossi Sheffi spoke at the MIT SCALE Conference. This was a hybrid event and Professor Sheffi attended in-person. The goal of the SCALE network and conference was to drive cutting-edge research, education, and outreach that embrace socioeconomic, logistics, and supply chain challenges in the context of LAC, by developing and disseminating innovative strategies to address and to solve those challenges within the region. 

Programmed by Economist Impact and sponsored by Icertis, this webinar featured Professor Yossi Sheffi speaking with a host of business representatives, consultants and thought leaders to examine how companies can strengthen trust in business-to-business relationships to improve profits, performance and resilience. 

The questions addressed include: 

• Is there a trust deficit in business-to-business relationships? How did covid-19 impact trust in business relationships? 

In this episode of Slalom's Supply Chain Fireside Chat, host Harshad Kanvinde, leader of Slalom's global supply chain practice, talked with Dr. Yossi Sheffi, Director at MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics and Professor of Engineering Systems. The two discussed Dr.

What began in March of 2020 at the local supermarket has rippled throughout the U.S. economy – supply chain challenges are now affecting every aspect of our daily lives and how we do business. Demand continues to outpace shipping capacity, labor shortages persist, shipping costs are up, project delays caused by material shortages continue, and pricing stability is nowhere to be found.

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