Daniel Guide, professor of operations and supply chain management and Binder Faculty Fellow at the Penn State Smeal College of Business, has been named co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Operations Management. The journal, published by Elsevier, is one of the leading publications in operations and supply chain management. It publishes original empirical research that will have a significant impact on theory and practice.

New state and federal mandates requiring 10 percent ethanol in reformulated gasoline will create big challenges for supply chain managers, according to Penn State experts.

New research by Christopher Craighead, assistant professor of supply chain management at Penn State's Smeal College of Business, suggests that managers in charge of supplier selection need to consider the risks involved at the beginning of the selection process instead of waiting until all supply decisions have been made. He and his co-authors have developed a two-phase supplier-selection approach that complements traditional models by providing a second step focused on risk considerations, including factors such as culture, economy, infrastructure, and political state.

The next time you need to get to New York or Washington, D.C. think how much easier it would be if high-speed trains were as common here as they are in Europe.

Such trains would leave every hour and get you to your destination—even right to the airport—on time and faster than driving.