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Campaign for Fair Food Makes a Real Difference
Susan L. Marquis @susanlmarquis
Aug 25, 2017
Tampa Bay Times
The Fair Food Program protects farmworkers while providing corporations with transparency in their supply chains and tremendous brand protection. It has been widely recognized for improving agricultural working conditions and for changing the culture of America's farm fields.
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Discriminatory Practices
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'Product of Mexico': Why Have Corporate/Social Responsibility Programs Failed?
Susan L. Marquis @susanlmarquis
Dec 12, 2014
Newsweek
The Fair Food Program has been a leader in using cooperation, visibility, and accountability to meet the needs of workers, growers, and buyers. Can it be a model for addressing these critical issues in Mexico as well?
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Supply Chain Management
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Should the U.S. Rely on Russian Rocket Engines?
Jul 16, 2014
The RAND Blog
One of the two launch vehicles that lift U.S. satellites into orbit depends on a rocket engine made by a company located in Russia. Russia's recent clashes with Ukraine and its claims on the Crimean peninsula have caused friction with the United States and thereby raised questions among U.S. policymakers about the potential for an interruption in the supply of the engines.
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Discriminatory Practices
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Wal-Mart Chooses Fairness, Giving Farmworkers a Boost
Susan L. Marquis @susanlmarquis
Feb 7, 2014
Orlando Sentinel
The recent commitment by Wal-Mart Stores to the Fair Food Program is a transformational moment in the decades-long struggle for fair treatment of agricultural workers in America but the decision is hardly the last human-rights battle to be won on behalf of this long-oppressed work force.
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Public Sector Governance
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Drawing Right Lessons from the Olympic Security Debacle
James Gilbert
Jul 25, 2012
RAND.org
The way forward is not for the government to say no to outsourcing of sensitive functions, but to think carefully about which efficiency savings are real and which are, instead, a result of introducing a far greater degree of risk, writes James Gilbert.
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Supply Chain Management
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Revisiting 100% Inspection
Henry H. Willis @HenryHWillis
Jul 6, 2012
RAND.org
It is good that the congressmen have asked the Obama administration to revisit supply chain security. However, precipitous changes to how the global supply chain operates do not seem warranted, may not in fact improve security, and could have costly unintended consequences, writes Henry Willis.
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Securing U.S. Supply Chain
David S. Ortiz, Henry H. Willis @HenryHWillis
Aug 29, 2005
United Press International
Published commentary by RAND staff:Securing U.S. Supply Chain appearing in United Press International.
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Supply Chain Management

Campaign for Fair Food Makes a Real Difference

'Product of Mexico': Why Have Corporate/Social Responsibility Programs Failed?

Should the U.S. Rely on Russian Rocket Engines?

Wal-Mart Chooses Fairness, Giving Farmworkers a Boost

Drawing Right Lessons from the Olympic Security Debacle

Revisiting 100% Inspection

Securing U.S. Supply Chain

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