MIT FaROL

02/14/2026

💌 Have a terrific weekend and St. Valentine's Day! 🌹

02/14/2026

Our director discusses the high complexity of the transportation and logistics involved in St Valentine's Day flower deliveries. 💐

Flowers are a great example of how perishability changes the value chains around the globe. 🌍 🌎 🌏

🤓 Have you already decided what to give to your soulmate tomorrow? 🫶

12/14/2024

🎓 Huge kudos to Dr. David Hidalgo Carvajal on earning his PhD! We all have attested to your dedication, resilience, and passion for SCM, circular economy, and reducing waste.

🎉You are a true inspiration for the whole team. We are very proud of your achievements and look forward to celebrating a bright future!

Art credit: Dominique Gomez De la Luz (Thank you!)

08/01/2024

Food for tought, tought for food! 🥗

💫 An interesting conversation with a multidisciplinary focus. Thank you UNAM Boston for organizing this discussion panel!

Unfortunately, the audio is only available in Spanish!

Tati Sadalla Kristoff Mejía Argueta

08/01/2024

🎉 We are thrilled to announce this publication!

💡 Rafael Escamilla, PhD, led this groundbreaking research on emerging market economies, using Latin America as the testing field. We also feel proud that he is a 2018 alum of the MIT GCLOG Program and an active member of the MIT SCALE Network LAC.

🌟 We also congratulate his PhD advisors, Prof. Jan Fransoo and Prof. Prisca Brosi. We also acknowledge Camilo A. Mora and Kristoff Mejía Argueta for their valuable contributions.

📦 Packing & Unpacking: Research Insights from MIT CTL 💡

A new paper from the MIT Food and Retail Operations Lab (FaROL) exploring the digitization of nanostores has been published! 🛒

"This pioneering work explores the main barriers to digitization in small, family-owned retailers (i.e., nanostores), in emerging markets. Given their informal status, shopkeepers tend to stay 'under the radar' and distrust any form of digitization because they are concerned that their transactional records might become transparent to the tax authorities, a phenomenon we term 'tax privacy concerns.' "

Click here to read the full paper now! ➡https://pure.uvt.nl/ws/portalfiles/portal/93582786/Nanostores_Technology_Adoption_DSJ_FAV.pdf

✏ Authored in collaboration by: Christopher Mejia Argueta, Camilo Mora, Jan Fransoo, Prisca Brosi, and Rafael Escamilla.

03/07/2024

“Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice.” – Henry Ford.

We want to congratulate our colleague and friend Agatha Clarice for being awarded the 2024 Nada Sanders Emerging Economies Doctoral Dissertation Award, which is granted by the POMS - Production and Operations Management Society to the best doctoral candidate from Latin America and the Caribbean to encourage their development and facilitate building connection between the region and POMS.

Way to go! We are proud of your achievements and celebrate this milestone with your advisors, Gonzalo Mejía, PhD (Universidad de La Sabana, Colombia) and Christopher Mejia-Argueta, PhD (MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics, U.S.).

08/20/2021

Building innovative solutions to improve food assortment, production, distribution and food recovery to look for articulating end-to-end efforts for all population segments 🧑‍🌾

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05/05/2021

The millions of frequent and small deliveries to nanostores can be delivered by using emerging distribution channels, such as e-cargo bikes and other alternative-energy vehicles. The future of last mile delivery for food ecosystems will depend on integrated multimodal, multi-tiered transportation. 🍃🚲

LOGYCA
Banco Mundial
Secretaría de Movilidad

En Bogotá estamos implementando , un piloto de ciclologística para la distribución final de carga en la ciudad mediante el uso de bicicletas eléctr...

01/29/2021

This is how we envision to create a deep impact in communities and industries around the world. 🌎Everyone is part of this change!

01/28/2021

We believe in equity and in high-performance.

Social-driven supply chains are long term sustainable and also profit-oriented under the right focus: Your end consumer and his/her evolution.

01/28/2021

We are born with a life purpose, this is ours: LEAVE A LEGACY.
What is yours?