From inventory to the laboratory, the requisition of chemicals for research has just entered the computer age. David Perry's Chemdex Corp., an on-line marketplace for chemicals, may revolutionize the ...

Online marketplaces need partnerships with bricks-and-mortar companies to survive. That's the lesson from one of the highest-profile business-to-business collapses in the world. Online marketplaces ...

“THIS is not about Amazon,” says David Perry, founding chief executive of Chemdex. “It's about supply chain.” Mr Perry is manically scrawling a diagram on a whiteboard. On one side of the scrawl are ...

SAN FRANCISCO — In 1997, David Perry, a mid-level oil refinery manager who had just completed his MBA at Harvard Business School, had a big idea. Perry envisioned a technology to let businesses buy or ...

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