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- 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
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Good Odds
Purchasing directly from producers instead of relying on a middleman lowers the cost of sourcing, for instance. Relying on its own fleet of trucks enables the company to pick up produce just before shipping, avoiding the cost and delay of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Case Study: Off to a Fine Art
the United States, where infrastructure already exists. Ultimately, GAIA decided to invest in its own supply chain. Today the company has a fleet of 20 delivery trucks and 40 drivers, plus a centralized warehouse. The staff has grown from... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Case Study: Tip the Scale
photos courtesy of Walden Local Meat In 2014, Walden Local Meat founder and CEO Charley Cummings (MBA 2011) crisscrossed New England in a company truck to personally deliver orders of chicken, pork, lamb, and beef—all pasture-raised on... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Heartland
Let me tell you what’s fantastic about offal.” Jordan Kraft Lambert (MBA 2016), Colorado State University’s first director of agricultural innovation, is a full-body talker, and the topic of organ meat has her fired up. The parts of the cow typically seen as... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
company’s engineers integrated a sensor into the bearings used on light trucks that would not only serve the friction reduction purpose of the bearing, but also be the sensor for the antilock braking system. As a result of this added... 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
- 06 Jul 2015
- News
Lights! Camera... Market!
short scene where a real Terra Chips truck can be seen picking up potatoes—Simon says the team devised several other ways to promote its chips along with marketing the film. The premieres of the film at each of the independent film... View Details
- 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
- 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
- 03 Jul 2024
- News
Surviving the Iditarod
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Sunny Stroeer: Many folks have heard of the Iditarod Sled Dog race, which is the last great race on earth where mushers compete to cover the distance from Anchorage to Nome as quickly as possible. The... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
of the house was bitter cold in the wintertime. My dad bought an electric heater for the living room so he could study there. It seems to me that some of the units must have had iceboxes, for I think I remember an ice truck periodically... View Details
- 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
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
Goodwin explains: “If [the lettuce] is grown in Massachusetts, I can put it on [a grocery store’s] dock at the same price or lower than if you grow it in California and truck it across the country. And so I get all that benefit of the... View Details
- 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
- 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
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
- 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
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Power of Imperfect Eating By Kavita Bhatnagar (SELP 11, 2022) Penguin Enterprise Rather than dictating which foods are good or bad, this book weaves together stories that mirror the intricate, emotional, and often imperfect... View Details
- 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