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Faculty
Rolando Tomasini, INSEAD

Course Coordinator
ISUP Secretariat

Prerequisite/progression of the course

Students most benefiting from this course have a background or a strong interest in corporate social responsibility, supply chain management, humanitarian or military operations. The course is multidisciplinary based on qualitative analysis and can be adapted to several profiles.

Course content, structure and teaching

The course is designed in three main sections. The first will give students an overview of the humanitarian system and the role of logistics/supply chain management in disaster relief. The second section is meant to discuss different management issues in the preparedness (working between disasters) and response (coordinating during a disaster). The third section is meant to discuss how the private sector can contribute to each of the disaster stages. For this we will discuss different partnership models including corporate social responsibility and social entrepreneurship.

Learning Objectives

Students should be able to:

• understand the main players in the humanitarian sector
• understand the theories, concepts and frameworks that apply to disaster preparedness, disaster response coordination and private sector intervention
• analyze different stages of disaster management and how companies can contribute to them in form of corporate social responsibility initiatives.

Teaching methods

Lectures will be based on case study analysis paired with discussions from the book readings. Students will be provided with questions ahead of time to prepared for each session where group work may take place.

Examination

Final exam: Project/home assignment (written individually), 15 A4 pages

Re-take exam: Project/home assignment (written individually), 15 A4 pages

Course literature

Book: Humanitarian Logistics. Rolando Tomasini and Luk Van Wassenhove . Palgrave MacMillan 2009 (ISBN- 978-0-230-20575-8)

Case Studies from the INSEAD Humanitarian Case Study collection.

• Coordinating Disaster Logistics in El Salvador using SUMA. 10/2003-5145.
• Fuels: A Humanitarian Necessity in 2003 Post-Conflict Iraq. 07/2005-5290.
• Genetically Modified Food Donations and the Cost of Neutrality. Logistics Response to the 2002 Southern Africa Food Crisis. 03/2004-5169.
• IFRC Choreographer of Disaster Management. Gujarat Earthquake. 06/2002-5032.
• IFRC Choreographer of Disaster Management. Hurricane Mitch. 06/2002-5039.
• WFP Lesotho : Building Sustainable Operations. 01/2008-5495.
• Logistics Moving the Seeds of Brighter Future: Afghanistan 2nd Year. 09/2003-5135.
• Managing Information in Humanitarian Crisis: UNJLC Website. 04/2005-5278.
• Moving the World : Learning to Dance. 03/2004-5194.
• Moving the World : Looking for a Partner. 02/2004-5187.
• UNJLC Afghanistan Operations First Year. 05/2003-5092.
• UNJLC An Operational and Conceptual Inter-Agency Logistics Platform. 05/2004-5213.
• UNJLC The Genesis of a Humanitarian Relief Coordination Platform. 04/2003-5093.

Other

Classes will be held from Monday-Thursday for a total of 30 hours for the first three weeks of the program. A project/home assignment will be given for the last three weeks. The hand in deadline for the project/home assignment will be in the last week of the program.

Last updated by ISUP Secretariat 28/01/2010