Managing Director & Partner
Chicago
Dustin Burke is a core member of The Boston Consulting Group's Operations practice; the firm’s global topic leader for supply chain network optimization; and BCG’s North American leader for supply chain in the consumer goods topic. He also leads the transportation and logistics sector for North America and the Global Advantage practice in our Great Lakes region. Dustin coleads the growth of BCG GAMMA, our team of data scientists conducting advanced analytics in client work, in Chicago.
Dustin focuses on supply chain strategies, including network optimization and digital supply chain, for consumer and industrial goods manufacturers, as well as operations-led transformations and post-merger integrations of supply chain networks and organizations. In 2010, Dustin worked in BCG's Mumbai office as part of the global ambassador program, advising Indian industrial firms on global growth strategies.
Dustin has lived and worked in emerging markets and led international teams developing strategies for clients to respond to changing global economics, including working with emerging-market-based Global Challengers as well as developed-market firms participating in the US manufacturing renaissance.
Before joining the firm, Dustin was manager of corporate finance at MGM Resorts, and an investment banking analyst at Citigroup, covering consumer, retail, and homebuilding companies.
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多くの大手B2B企業にとって複雑な物流網の全体像を把握するのは非常に難しくなっています。ビッグデータの解析ツール・手法の進化のおかげで、物流の最適化が今までよりはるかに実行可能になってきています。
We don’t know to what extent the trade agreement will change, but when the new rules come, their impact will be felt quickly. Here’s what to do now.