Harvest Hope Food Bank (HHFB), based in South Carolina, serves primarily donated food to people in need in 20 counties across the state. It distributed 28 million pounds of food and fed over two million individuals in fiscal year 2014-15. However, this constituted only 40% of the annual meal gap...

Suppliers of consumer packaged goods are facing an increasingly challenging situation as they work to fulfill orders from their retail partners' distribution facilities. Traditionally these suppliers have generated forecasts of a given retailer's orders using records of that retailer's past...

Great companies — like great products and great nations — have always endured a four-stage life cycle: emergence, growth, maturity, and decline. Faster clockspeeds — enabled by compressed technology cycles and accelerated by new knowledge-sharing routines such as crowdsourcing — are...