trucking - Publications - Faculty & Research

17 Nov 2022
News

Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change

achieve price parity with diesel trucks in 2023, five years sooner than previously forecasted. This is leading to big investments by EV battery manufacturers in the US, as well as fleet electrification investment opportunities. While most... View Details

08 Mar 2012
Research & Ideas

Unplugged: What Happened to the Smart Grid?

appliances to turn on when rates were at their lowest. Plus smart meters, monitors, and sensors capable of two-way communication would allow for a more efficient reaction time if an outage was detected, rather than relying on field workers to View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Energy; Utilities

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Wartime Innovation - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

production of Army trucks from major car companies including Ford and General Motors. He also boosted rubber supply through a program of higher production and greater citizen conservation. In 1942, Doriot became chief of the Research and... View Details

06 May 2021
Blog Post

The Extraordinary Things We Do on Ordinary Days: A Mother’s Day Tribute

truck to leave our family gathering. He started to back out and then stopped. He rolled down his window, called me over to the truck, lifted up his sunglasses and said, “Eme, you are a wonderful mother.” The sincerity in his eyes and the... View Details

17 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan

world, the economics were terrific. The business was highly scalable but, in addition, there was a great market for the digital information. So that part of the business looked to be very well-founded. But in the physical world, it was a business of delivery: View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Consumer Products; Retail

24 Mar 2023
News

Exploring Talent Markets; Aid for Turkey

food distribution, serving 7,000 people a day. "We sent 900 tents, hundreds of toilet and shower units, and 14 large trucks full of generators, blankets, food, medical kits, and animal feed," she added. The next phase will be to build... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

11 May 2015
Research & Ideas

A Road Map to Fix America’s Transportation Infrastructure

Any highway commuter who has wasted hours stuck in traffic can see the cracks in the United States' transportation system, as can any airline passenger who has been stranded overnight in an airport. Yet while many agree that the need for infrastructure change is... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Transportation

03 Jul 2024
News

Surviving the Iditarod

a number of ghost towns along the Iditarod Trail with old dilapidated buildings and ruins and mining infrastructure, and there's all these random trucks and cars parked in the middle of nowhere and you're like, how did this get here? It... View Details

03 Apr 2019
Book

Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business

agencies overseeing banks and lending, yet issues relevant to small-business lending—such as disclosure rules—have often fallen through the cracks. For example, if you are a consumer and you buy a truck, all costs and financing fees must be clearly disclosed. But if... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Banking; Financial Services

01 Oct 2002
News

What's Cookin'

delivery truck outside with its hood up and the engine in flames. "He was such an entrepreneur that he ran out with a blanket, extinguished the fire, grabbed the racks of bread, and hightailed it back to the store. It's funny, but... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia

27 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

Creating Leaders for Science-Based Businesses

While trucks continue to rumble in and out of the container-cargo rail yard opposite the HBS parking lot, the depot's days are numbered. Adjacent to it, several blocks of low-rise commercial buildings are already history, demolished and... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Biotechnology; Health

16 Oct 2013
Op-Ed

Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking

natural gas from coal does not solve the world's climate change problem, but it is a bridge. We need to stop burning all fossil fuels, but in order to do so, the world needs much cheaper dispatchable, zero-carbon alternatives. The View Details

Keywords: by Joe Lassiter; Energy; Utilities

01 Jun 2017
News

Six Receive 2017 HBS Alumni Achievement Award

father’s greeting was, ‘Is your homework done?’ ” Real-world experience: “One of my HBS recommendations was written by my supervisor from a job I had on the Mass Turnpike. I worked for four summers as a maintenance truck rider and... View Details

01 Jun 2017
News

Supercharged

are driving electric adoption While electrification of SUVs and light trucks remains a challenge, some of the very largest people movers have already made the leap. Ryan Popple (MBA 2006), CEO of Proterra (and former senior director of... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; illustrations by Tavis Coburn

28 May 2008
First Look

First Look: May 28, 2008

Case 508-074 The largest retailer of diesel fuel in the U.S., Flying J, is rethinking its growth strategy as the economy goes into a recession. Its major customer base, owner-operated truck drivers, are facing increasing costs of doing... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

26 Jan 2004
Research & Ideas

What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation

trucks with global positioning satellite (GPS) locators, allowing dispatchers to arrange deliveries within a twenty-minute window, versus the three hours CEMEX's competitors require. This system—which did not emerge from a central R&D... View Details

Keywords: by Donald N. Sull, Alejandro Ruelas-Gossi & Martin Escobari

21 Nov 2017
News

Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy

“Some of the other big megatrends are AI and autonomous cars, and how they will affect the transportation sector. We also have drones, and when we’re delivering packages and using drones instead of trucks on the highway, it’s really going... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; solar power; wind power

01 Mar 2006
News

The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could

and a culture that values employees above all and empowers them to excel. Unlike its competitors, Dreyer’s has always insisted on delivering ice cream to grocery stores with its own trucks and drivers to ensure product quality. Early on... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing

29 Jan 2008
First Look

First Look: January 29, 2008

unobserved heterogeneity bias. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-051.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsTata Motors: The Tata Ace Harvard Business School Case 108-011 Considers the strategy and experience of Tata Motors, India's leading commercial... View Details