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Highway As cities reshape themselves and populations increase, demand for goods will rise. And if the pandemic taught us anything about supply and demand, it’s that the trucking system—once largely unnoticed—can become a real bottleneck.... View Details

Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services

01 Dec 2009
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One Man Crime Wave

everybody because nobody will sleep with anybody when they have a new book of yours.” (Marlene Dietrich, 1975) The World According to Travis McGee “Far off on the north-south highways there was the insect sound of the fast moving trucks,... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; fiction writing; Arts, Entertainment; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Dec 1996
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Laurel without Hardy? A Lesson for Business

car - and hence the demand for one - was severely limited by the lack of many essential complementary products: roads, gas stations, mechanics, and more. The fledgling automakers did not leave the development of these markets to chance. For example, through the Lincoln... View Details

01 Apr 1996
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Stasis and Turmoil: HBS Research for the Real World

Europe and Latin America has shown that governments are particularly concerned with maintaining control over the affairs of privatized monopolies. "For example, in the cases of electric utility privatizations in the United Kingdom and private View Details

01 Oct 1999
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Entrepreneur Daniel S. Bricklin: A Class Act

a massive interstate highway system might one day provide. "We need to understand not so much the technology," he explains, "but the progression of technology and what might be built with it. E-commerce, like electricity or the telephone,... View Details

Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs

01 Sep 2009
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Read All About It!

appropriating $25 million annually to the states for the construction of better roads. In 1921, the U.S. government set aside some of these funds for the creation of a nationwide highway system. Road construction continued apace during... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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Will Congress Move Ahead on Highway Funding?

The Main Highway of Commerce

Cities, states to lose big if highway fund disappears

Amazon Takes On California

Former SBA Chief Karen Mills on How to Jump Start the Economy Now

Big Data in the Driver's Seat

Connecticut is the problem with Massachusetts rail

Bonding with Infrastructure

America's infrastructure isn't sexy

On infrastructure, Donald Trump has a math problem

Ailing infrastructure

Trucks stop, but Putin rolls on

Reframing infrastructure: It's really mobility

Stranded: How America's Failing Public Transportation Increases Inequality

New Urban Order