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WVU researcher links the chains

When Molly Hughes, assistant professor in the West Virginia University John Chambers College of Business and Economics, looks at supply chains — those vast webs of factories, transportation networks, warehouses and retailers that connect the raw source materials of any product to its eventual end user — she sees human beings. She studies risks to supply chains, as well as risks posed by supply chains, with a perspective informed by seven years in the pharmaceuticals industry.