Books

MIT Professor Yossi Sheffi recounts the vaccine’s world-changing journey from scientific breakthrough, to coronavirus antidote, to mass vaccination. Plus he explores how the mission could transform how the world combats other global-scale challenges.

In this book, supply chain business strategy expert Professor Yossi Sheffi offers a pragmatic approach to how companies of all sizes navigate competing stakeholder demands for corporate profits, jobs, growth, and environmental sustainability.

Supply chain expert Professor Yossi Sheffi explains why certain geographic locations like Memphis, Singapore, and Rotterdam have successfully developed logistics clusters while others have not. He outlines how these concentrated logistics hubs create positive feedback loops, generate economic value, and the role government support plays in their development.

A practical guide to scenario planning that outlines the core process, illustrates it with real-world case studies of different organization types, and provides frameworks for assessing whether scenario planning has effectively improved strategic decision-making.

This book explores the vital role of global supply chains in the modern economy, and how they have been impacted by the societal and economic spasms of the early 2020s. Divided into four parts, it covers the history of supply chain management, the complexities of meeting growing consumer demands for fast delivery services, the impact of technology, and how people can succeed in an increasingly complex and automated future.

In this book, MIT Professor Yossi Sheffi examines how the Covid-19 pandemic and supply chains shaped the crisis response. Drawing on executive interviews, historical analysis, and his prior work on resilience, Sheffi explores how the pandemic transformed human life and what the post-pandemic world will look like.

In "The Power of Resilience," Yossi Sheffi explores how global supply chain disruptions require companies to build corporate resilience and risk management processes. Through case studies including Intel's response to the 2011 Japanese tsunami, Professor Sheffi demonstrates how companies can emerge stronger from disruption by balancing growth with advanced risk management.

In "The Resilient Enterprise," Professor Yossi Sheffi argues that corporate survival depends on preparation before disruptions occur rather than response during crises. Through case studies including Toyota and UPS, he provides tools for building supply chain resilience and turning it into competitive advantage.

Departing from his typical focus on supply chain and logistics topics, Sheffi authored Unsafe at MIT, A Chronicle of a Campus War on the Jews, a firsthand account documenting how the October 7 conflict transformed campus life for Jewish and Israeli students at MIT (2026).

Equilibrium Analysis with Mathematical Programming Methods