A Shot in the Arm: How Science, Engineering, and Supply Chains Converged to Vaccinate the World
Oct 2021 · MIT CTL Media
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In A Shot in the Arm, MIT Professor Yossi Sheffi recounts the extraordinary journey to deliver Covid-19 vaccines: from scientific advancements to candidate vaccines and mass vaccination. It is a story of bold innovation, risk-taking, and teamwork as scientists, engineers, supply chain experts, manufacturers, and governments collaborated on the greatest product launch in history. The book also highlights the breathtaking potential of revolutionary mRNA technology and the vital lessons for combating other global challenges, including climate change.
About the author
Dr. Yossi Sheffi is the Elisha Gray II Professor of Engineering Systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he serves as Director of the Center for Transportation & Logistics. He is a serial entrepreneur, having founded and co-founded five successful companies.
This is his seventh book following a textbook, Urban Transportation Networks (Prentice Hall, 1985), and five award-winning and widely translated management books: The Resilient Enterprise (MIT Press, 2005), Logistics Clusters (MIT Press, 2012), The Power of Resilience (MIT Press, 2015), Balancing Green (MIT Press, 2018) and The New (Ab)Normal: Reshaping Business and Supply Chain Strategy Beyond Covid-19 (MIT CTL Media, 2020).
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