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- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
help set the company’s strategic direction. Maggelet, daughter of the company’s founder, has led FJ Management since 2009 when she stepped in as CEO following an unexpected bankruptcy. At that time, FJ Management was known as Flying J. Flying J owned and operated... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 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
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
of literally scores of trees and thousands of flowers where cars and trucks had once dominated. (Tom McCraw has speculated that this was McArthur’s way of doing penance for his years in the Koerners’ sawmill.) As in all of McArthur’s... 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
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
infirmary, like her peers, Margaret emerged from the war as a fully certified truck and airplane mechanic. “She always encouraged us to do things and figure it out, and I think it’s enabled me to jump into the deep end of a swimming pool... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
for Peanuts recounts how Lorenzo grew his empire from nothing and helped shape the airline industry as we know it. The son of Spanish immigrants, Lorenzo put himself through Columbia College by driving a Coca-Cola truck and then grew the... View Details
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
disconnect between the shippers (demand) and truck owners (supply), had created a layer of intermediaries (brokers) for transporting goods. The founders saw an opportunity in creating an online marketplace for freight—and uniting the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
Flying J. Flying J owned and operated hundreds of truck stops—which it called Travel Plazas—nationwide and was a growing multi-billion dollar business, but broader problems in the oil and credit markets in late 2008 forced it to declare... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
Hotel Manzana Kempinski La Habana—the city’s first-ever luxury hotel—his morning meetings begin with something much more basic: “How much water do we have in the tanks?” On a sunny April day in the airy second-floor lobby, Benedetti explains: Early every morning, 10... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
products. In the world of railroads, business is open to competition from other railroads, trucking companies, and barges. "There can be a significant strategic component, where we try to understand the inputs of a customer's business and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
dangerous place on the planet. It’s pitch-black, trucks are driving around, and there’s the danger of getting sucked into an intake, or blown over the side by a jet blast, or having your cranium squashed by a propeller. But that’s far... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
of Nakala. And just as McDonald's trucks raw food to its franchisees from a distribution center, Babban Gona delivered those inputs directly to Josua's door, including 3 bags of improved seed, 14 bags of fertilizer (much of it from... View Details
- 22 May 2020
- Blog Post
Reflections on Service - Armed Forces Alumni Association Student Profiles
weapon system and rapidly engaging the pickup truck. With the truck still rolling forward, I saw the occupants jump out with looks of sheer terror on their faces. I remember the first time pressing the cross-walk button near Continuum and... View Details