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作者：Kretschmer, Andreas; Spinler, Stefan; Van Wassenhove, Luk N.
作者单位：WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management; INSEAD Business School
摘要：School feeding is an established development aid intervention with multiple objectives including education, nutrition, and value transfer. Traditionally run by international organizations in low-income settings, school feeding programs have had a substantial impact in many less-developed countries. However, recent rethinking by the World Bank and the World Food Programme has prompted a shift toward long-term, sustainable solutions that rely more upon local resources, local capacity, and commun...
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作者：Sodhi, ManMohan S.; Tang, Christopher S.
作者单位：City St Georges, University of London; University of California System; University of California Los Angeles
摘要：Floods are the most frequent category of disasters worldwide. Among all geographic regions, Asia has suffered the most. While there are several ongoing humanitarian efforts and initiatives, we believe there is a new opportunity to coordinate last mile humanitarian efforts in the event of a flood using micro-retailers. Because micro-retailers are the last mile nodes in traditional retail supply chains in many Asian countries, we propose the use of social enterprise to buttress these supply chai...
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作者：Eftekhar, Mahyar; Masini, Andrea; Robotis, Andreas; Van Wassenhove, Luk N.
作者单位：Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe; Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) Paris; INSEAD Business School
摘要：This article aims to identify optimal vehicle procurement policies for organizations engaged in humanitarian development programs and to derive general insights on the characteristics of these policies. Toward that end, we follow an inductive approach. First, we study the operations of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in three representative countries: Sudan, Afghanistan, and Ethiopia. Using a linear programming (LP) model primed with field data provided by the ICRC, we calc...
