Like so many businesses, clothing retailers have endured a year or more of disrupted supply chains, challenges with maintaining appropriate inventory, and significant fluctuations in demand. The recent blockage in the Suez Canal was just the latest in a string…
Oil is at the heart of growing controversy in the African country of Namibia where a David and Goliath battle between Canadian multinational ReconAfrica and local villagers has emerged. ReconAfrica wants to drill for oil in the Okavango wilderness area…
Coffee is a mainstay for many college students. Some view it as a social institution, gathering with friends to talk about their lives over a latte. Others see it as an essential during busy times, mainlining it during finals weeks…
This video explores the global shortage of semiconductors, the tiny chips used as the brains for everything from cars to jets to washing machines. While market forces might usually work to bring supply and demand together, the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted…
Abstract: This video explores Tesla’s mounting problems in China. In 2018, Tesla announced that it would be building its first Gigafactory outside the United States in Shanghai. China has emerged as the world’s biggest auto market and as an important…
Abstract: As interest in addressing climate change continues to gain speed, demand for electricvehicles in rising. Currently, these vehicles largely rely on lithium-ion batteries for their power,and within those lithium-ion batteries, a blue metal called cobalt. Cobalt is the sort…
Abstract: The rising cost of cobalt may be of little interest to many, but in fact, has the potentialto affect nearly everyone. Cobalt is used in the construction of the lithium-ion batteries used topower most portable electronics including mobile phones…
Abstract: Disruptions to global supply chains have taken on a new level of complexity in recent months, this time caused by a shortage of shipping containers. Despite estimates of as many as 180 million shipping containers in existence worldwide, increased…
This video explores the new agreement between the United Kingdom and the European Union that was reached after a tumultuous four-year period of withdrawal negotiations. Under the new agreement, goods between the United Kingdom and the European Union will continue…