The current COVID-19 pandemic is posing challenges to the ways businesses and humanitarian organizations traditionally conduct their operations. This webinar gives an overview on supply chain management and humanitarian operations, how they work and how they are affected by the pandemic.

SPEAKER:

Gloria Urrea is an Assistant Professor of Operations Management in the Strategy, Entrepreneurship and Operations Management (SEO) Department at the Leeds School of Business. Gloria studies operations of humanitarian organizations, whose mission is to alleviate human suffering and improve the quality of life of the most vulnerable population. Her research focuses on two main questions. First, how humanitarian organizations can access and manage the required donations to perform their work and second, how humanitarian organizations can make their operations more efficient.

GOLD SPONSORS:

Merchant & Gould

5280 

SILVER SPONSORS: 

Tuck

Duke Fuqua

Pepperdine

U. of South Carolina, Darla Moore