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Stop Wasting Water! New Study Reveals How to Get People to Conserve – And It’s Not Just About Money
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BALTIMORE, MD, April 30, 2025 – As droughts worsen and water shortages hit communities worldwide, a new study in the INFORMS journal Decision Analysis has uncovered a smarter way to get people to save water – without breaking the bank.

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China’s rare earth minerals power the modern world. Banning their export could destroy it
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Beijing has a virtual monopoly on rare earth minerals—the materials that power everything from military planes to your electric toothbrush.

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Trump’s tech tariff confusion
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The Trump administration’s back-and-forth moves on tariffs for technology products are stirring confusion in a sector heavily reliant on global supply chains.  
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COVID Spurs Calls for Thermometers at Airports

COVID Spurs Calls for Thermometers at Airports

Crain's Chicago Business, May 15, 2020

Airlines want the TSA to screen passengers for a fever. It's a dicey proposition, risking travelers outrage for a procedure that experts say won't keep COVID off planes.

Coronavirus Impacts Pharmaceutical Supply Chain

Coronavirus Impacts Pharmaceutical Supply Chain

Strategic Sourceror, May 15, 2020

It should come as little surprise that the novel coronavirus outbreak has led to the disruption - to one extent or another - of countless industries. However, some may be surprised to learn that one such sector is the pharmaceutical industry and, more specifically, the global supply chain it relies on to conduct business on an ongoing basis.

Q&A: What COVID-19 policies should governments impose? Comparing 10 interventions, weighing cost and quality-of-life trade-offs

Q&A: What COVID-19 policies should governments impose? Comparing 10 interventions, weighing cost and quality-of-life trade-offs

Harvard Kennedy School, May 13, 2020

Assistant Professor of Public Policy Soroush Saghafian, whose academic interests include applying operations research methods to health care management, has been working with the government of Bahrain to analyze the effectiveness of policies to address the coronavirus. Saghafian, who is a faculty affiliate of the Harvard PhD program in health policy and the Harvard Center for Health Decision Science, cautions that no one policy is best in all cases—and that governments must weigh cost and quality of life considerations. However, he says that closing businesses like cinemas and gyms for four months could be one of the most low-cost and effective measures. Saghafian shared analysis that he and his former PhD student (now an assistant professor of statistics and family medicine at Michigan State University) Alireza Boloori conducted in an HKS faculty working paper, “COVID-19: What Intervention Policies Are Most Effective? A Brief Report Using Data from Government of Bahrain.”

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