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Paul MacDuffie

Post-Pandemic Strategy: How to Reconcile Resiliency and Efficiency in Your Company

Thursday, April 15 at 4-5:15 p.m. US/EST
Free and open to the public.  Register online 

Featuring John Paul MacDuffie, professor of management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and director of the Program on Vehicle and Mobility Innovation at Wharton’s Mack Institute for Innovation Management

  1. With Al Lanctot, executive director, global accounts North America at Lenovo, and
  2. Romaine Seguin, president, global freight forwarding, UPS

John Paul MacDuffie will offer an innovative approach to resolving apparent contradictions between risk management and core strategy, between resiliency and efficiency in manufacturing supply chains around the world. He will explain the importance of companies developing supply chain continuation capabilities that can help respond to sudden disasters and arguably deepen the core competencies of the firm. Based on research of pioneering firms in a variety of technologies, MacDuffie will emphasize three capabilities: protective capability, recovery capability and substitutive capability.  In doing so, he will show how successful firms have redefined gains in productivity and efficiencies by blending fundamental aspects of risk and scope into core organizational capabilities guiding strategy and operations.

MacDuffie will be joined by Folks Center Global Advisory Board members Al Lanctot and Romaine Seguin for an audience Q&A following his talk.

Sponsored by The Rachel and Jim Hodges Fund. This event is held in collaboration with the Operations and Supply Chain Center and the Risk Management and Insurance Center at the UofSC Darla Moore School of Business.

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John Paul MacDuffie

John Paul MacDuffie is professor of management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and director of the Program on Vehicle and Mobility Innovation at Wharton’s Mack Institute for Innovation Management. MacDuffie is a world-renowned expert in strategy and supply chain, particularly in the challenges facing the global automotive industry. He received his B.A. from Harvard and his Ph.D. from the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is a founding board member and current President of the Industry Studies Association, co-curator of the Automotive Transformation Map of the World Economic Forum and a former member of the Automotive Experts Group at the Federal Reserve Bank.

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Al Lanctot

Al Lanctot is the executive director of global accounts North America at Lenovo and a member of the UofSC Folks Center for International Business Global Advisory Board. In his role, he is responsible for leading a global field sales organization that delivers worldwide revenue growth and portfolio expansion across the entire Lenovo commercial solutions portfolios including intelligent devices, infrastructure solutions and solutions and services groups. Prior to Lenovo, Lanctot held leadership positions at Dialog Group, Regus, Dell and Lockheed Martin and taught at a number of universities in the U.S. and France.

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Romaine Seguin

Romaine Seguin is the president of global freight forwarding at UPS and a member of the UofSC Folks Center for International Business Global Advisory Board. In her role, she is responsible for all UPS package and cargo operations in Canada and more than 50 countries and territories across Latin America and the Caribbean. She also has oversight of UPS supply chain solutions operations throughout Latin America, Miami and the Caribbean. Prior to her current role, she served as president of UPS International Americas Region and as the vice president of UPS operations in Minnesota and the chief operating officer of UPS operations in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.


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