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In a Nutshell: At around $1.5 trillion, student loan debt in the U.S. is quickly becoming what many experts are categorizing as a crisis. It is only outranked by outstanding mortgage debt and is higher than both auto loans and credit card debt. A recent study published in Marketing Science, the journal of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), explores the relationship between student loan debt and entrepreneurship.

If you were to ask 10 people their thoughts on the term “supply chain,” you’d likely get 10 different answers as to what it truly means. Businessdictionary.com defines supply chain as:

Entire network of entities, directly or indirectly interlinked and interdependent in serving the same consumer or customer. It comprises of vendors that supply raw material, producers who convert the material into products, warehouses that store, distribution centers that deliver to the retailers, and retailers who bring the product to the ultimate user. Supply chains underlie value-chains because, without them, no producer has the ability to give customers what they want, when and where they want, at the price they want….

FRAMINGHAM – Jessica Prologo arrived at Plymouth Church ready to donate blood. Prologo, 38, of Framingham, tries to donate every two months. She arrived Thursday at the Red Cross mobile blood drive, ready to do it again.

In an age when many companies have stepped forward to become an advocate of board and workplace gender diversity, it turns out that one additional woman on the board results in a 2.3% decrease in the company’s market value in the US on average. This could amount to hundreds of millions of dollars, according to INSEAD’s latest study on investor responses’ to board diversity.