Hosted by Tomas Hult, this segment of the globalEDGE Business Beat is an interview with David Closs who is the John H. McConnell Chaired Professor in the Department of Supply Chain Management in the Eli Broad College of Business at Michigan State University.

Tomas Hult is Professor and Byington Endowed Chair in the Eli Broad College of Business at Michigan State University. Dr. Closs shares his view of why Michigan State University’s supply chain management brand is so amazingly strong worldwide, why MSU is ranked top in the world in undergraduate and graduate education in supply chain management, and what his focus is on today in the exciting space of supply chains to help companies drive the bottom-line. He also discusses MSU’s Axia Institute, formerly known as the Midland Research Institute for Value Chain Creation, and what it focuses on.