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Mutual aid

By PETER BRADLEY

Collaboration on humanitarian supply chains is not just a topic for academic research.

From the Quarter 04 2007 issue

Carly Fiorina, the former CEO of Hewlett-Packard, raised an interesting idea when she suggested that governments could turn to business supply chains as models for how to react to disasters or coordinate efforts to thwart terrorist threats....

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