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- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Working the Street
a meth pipe, and a small quantity of weed in his shoe. There are no weapons in the car, but a brand-new paintball gun and pellets suggest the pair may have been shooting paintballs at cars, a popular diversion. Suspecting the car may be stolen, Timken calls in a tow... View Details
- 29 Nov 2023
- News
A Holiday Benefit Dinner in LA; Seattle Club Revival Underway
Seattle business leaders got where they are. The club also hosted truck manufacturer PACCAR’s CTO, John Rich (MBA 1999), who spoke on electrifying and automating US shipping, and Glenn Kelman, the CEO of Redfin, who talked about a wide... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 12 Feb 2021
- News
How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World
joining the family business, but had no idea that I'd be asked to assume responsibility for the overall business. When I went off to school, early on, the business was an industrial feeding business with lots of these trucks that went... View Details
Keywords: brands; leadership; management; strategy; operations; career; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Derek Ferguson
close-knit community where his father owned a trucking company. Although neither of his parents finished college, both stressed the importance of education. After skipping two grades and gaining admission to the academically rigorous... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
venture commitments to developing battery technologies to meet the coming automotive demand, as well as the needs of countless smart devices. Truck transport, especially diesel-powered trucks, too are a major focus, opening the door to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Accelerating a Gas-on-demand Startup
was ripe for innovation.” By graduation, the pair and a third cofounder, Dan Hunter, had launched Yoshi on the streets of Palo Alto. Hunter was the mechanic; he retrofitted his old pickup truck with extra fuel tanks. Alexander was the... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Clean Slate
time and a whole heap of permitting, Wieland explains. Meanwhile, Massport is electrifying its ground-service equipment, such as the trucks that ferry luggage and equipment around the tarmac, and installing the charging stations to power... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
School of Hard Knocks
Illustration by Richard Downs, Theispot.com When I was in sixth grade, I used to spend recess hiding under a truck in a garage at school. One of the few Caucasian students enrolled in what was my "neighborhood" school—on a Native American... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Ideas against AIDS
is now chairman and CEO of Hayes Lemmerz International, a world leader in the manufacture of wheel rims for truck and cars. Of his association with Viravaidya, Clawson told the Boston Globe (May 29, 2007), “It’s one of the greatest... View Details
- 24 Oct 2013
- News
Engineering a More Secure World
Anthony Harris Photo courtesy of Anthony Harris by Francis Storrs On April 14, 2013, a sheriff's deputy pulled over a truck cruising down Interstate 55 in Mississippi. What started as a routine traffic stop became more serious when the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
John R. Davis
He calls the hood of a rusty Chevy truck his “conference area” and the passenger seat his “desk.” His part-time help is his fiancée, whom he first recruited to his 1,400-acre Achille, Oklahoma, ranch with the promise of fresh... View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
Classroom Lessons Put Into Practice Abroad
São Paulo neighborhoods and discovered that proximity was the key ingredient for shoppers. “They would go to the bakery that is right next to their apartment because they just wanted convenience,” observes Ormeci. The students soon realized that food View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Student Teams Take on Real-World Innovation
car and truck company, but also a technology company.” Accordingly, the teams focused on out-of-the-box approaches to enhancing the way passengers experience mobile communications and computing. Unlike most field study projects, this one... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Digging Deep
was a little like jumping off a cliff,” she says of the move. “You don’t change your mind midway.” DMOS has also expanded its product line from two to five shovels and found a new market in fans of “overlanding,” who travel in customized View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Distinct Yet of a Piece
Their office locations range from the summit of a skyscraper in Boston to the front seat of a pickup truck in Oklahoma. Their workdays may be dedicated to helping build companies or to helping save lives. They can be found discussing... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
The American Dream
mobile home in rural Washington State while her enterprising father, a truck driver, was building his own company, is running as a pro-business Democrat and advocate for the middle class. “I come from those roots,” she told the Santa Rosa... View Details
- 12 May 2016
- News
Food Rescue Is on a Mission
models are very powerful,” he explains. “We have trucks that do deliveries, but the innovation is in how we are able to suit local needs, with many different collection models customized for local circumstances.” For Carson, a founder of... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 19 Jan 2016
- News
Electric Avenues
and 20 international public partners, says program manager Paige Fitzgerald (MBA/MPP 2014): In Los Angeles, it’s working with city government to push out Amber Alerts; in Rio, garbage truck drivers are using traffic data to alter their... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 26 Aug 2016
- News
Improving Wellness Through Better Nutrition
dignity and independence of living at home. The Iowa-based company’s heat-and-eat meals are delivered in 48 states by its own trucks or third-party carriers. Medicaid or other government subsidies generally pay for the meals, explains... View Details
- 29 Jul 2021
- News
Support System
their harvest or the ability to move their product beyond Africa to be marketed and sold. The result? They take what they could get from the traders who showed up in the village with trucks from time to time. Through a family line of... View Details