{"id":34019,"date":"2025-08-12T16:13:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T20:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/thought-leadership\/?p=34019"},"modified":"2026-01-16T14:07:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T19:07:32","slug":"handfield-unveils-supply-chain-stress-test-in-hbr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/thought-leadership\/article\/handfield-unveils-supply-chain-stress-test-in-hbr\/","title":{"rendered":"Handfield Unveils Supply Chain Stress Test In HBR"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n<p>In a new article for<a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2025\/08\/use-ai-to-stress-test-your-supply-chain\"> Harvard Business Review,<\/a> Robert Handfield\u2014Bank of America Distinguished Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management\u2014introduces a dynamic, AI-powered approach to stress testing their supply chains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Traditional, static stress testing is too slow for the pace of change in modern business, <a href=\"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/people\/rbhandfi\/\">Handfield<\/a> and co-author Walt DeGrange wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;.By combining emerging AI technologies with expert-based market intelligence,&#8221; the Aug. 6 piece argues, &#8220;organizations can develop a capability\u2014dynamic stress testing<em>\u2014<\/em>that can help companies cope with the rapidly changing environment.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2025\/08\/use-ai-to-stress-test-your-supply-chain\">Read the full article.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false,"raw":"<!-- wp:ncst\/dynamic-header {\"block\":\"ncst\/default-post-header\"} -->\n<!-- wp:ncst\/default-post-header {\"displayCategoryID\":170,\"showAuthor\":false,\"subtitle\":\"In a co-authored article, the Poole scholar describes a four-step, AI-powered process for more regular assessments.\"} \/-->\n<!-- \/wp:ncst\/dynamic-header -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In a new article for<a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2025\/08\/use-ai-to-stress-test-your-supply-chain\"> Harvard Business Review,<\/a> Robert Handfield\u2014Bank of America Distinguished Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management\u2014introduces a dynamic, AI-powered approach to stress testing their supply chains.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Traditional, static stress testing is too slow for the pace of change in modern business, <a href=\"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/people\/rbhandfi\/\">Handfield<\/a> and co-author Walt DeGrange wrote.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>\".By combining emerging AI technologies with expert-based market intelligence,\" the Aug. 6 piece argues, \"organizations can develop a capability\u2014dynamic stress testing<em>\u2014<\/em>that can help companies cope with the rapidly changing environment.\"<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2025\/08\/use-ai-to-stress-test-your-supply-chain\">Read the full article.<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supply chain stress tests lag behind the modern business cycle. 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