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- 16 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Your Customers Have Changed. Here's How to Engage Them Again.
Maersk, a leader in shipping services, kept its sailors on ships to ensure their safety and continued cross-national shipping. Alibaba and JD.com employed mandatory health checks and use of safety equipment in its factories and delivery View Details
- 21 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Common Strategy Mistakes
define industries broadly, following the influential work of Theodore Levitt some decades ago. His famous example was railroads that failed to see that they were in the transportation business, and so they missed the threat posed by View Details
Keywords: by Joan Magretta
- 06 Sep 2022
- Blog Post
Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business & Environment
was Corporate Strategy at PepsiCo / Growth at SodaStream. Dallin McKinnon (MBA 2023, Section J), Summer Internship: Strategy MBA Intern at Volta Trucks Volta Trucks is a full-electric commercial vehicle... View Details
- 23 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
8 Strategies to Sustain Business Innovation
service’s heavy users, who were looking for a way to organize all their tweets into subjects. Nintendo consulted non-gamers to design its Wii console, to make it easy for everyone to use. When Honda asked owners of its Ridgeline pickup View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 09 Jan 2020
- Book
Rethinking Business Strategy in the Age of AI
cases where a truck will need to be driven by a human or a cash register will need a person to operate it, but will you need as many humans? The answer is “no.” And will the unemployment rate increase at some point? I suspect it will.... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition
delivery trucks (think FedEx/UPS) with a platform that enables anyone to deliver packages in their own car. CozyKin Jeremy Au (MBA 2018, Section C) Business Track Runner-Up For working parents seeking infant childcare, CozyKin pairs... View Details
- 11 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Stories: Water Series - Episode #17: Leni Peterson Redondo (HBS MS/MBA 2023), Founder & CEO of Celeste
planet. As they say, “If climate change is a shark, water is its teeth.’” Leni also sees access to water as a gender issue. “Gathering water or waiting for water trucks is typically a woman’s job in many parts of the world, particularly... View Details
- Profile
Erin Kaivan
on a convoy when we came up behind a 'jingle truck' – a large, overstuffed truck with decorations everywhere. There were boards on the sides to hold more stuff, but still, the truck was overpacked. The men... View Details
Keywords: Consulting
- 28 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Unilever: Transformation and Tradition
slaughter the animals some of whose parts ended up in Unilever's pies and sausages. Unilever made its own packaging, and transported its products on its own trucks and barges. It owned the distribution chain that delivered its frozen... View Details
- 15 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
GM: What Went Wrong and What’s Next
strategy of the last decade has been to foster areas of specialization within its subsidiaries around the world—small cars in Europe, subcompacts in Asia, trucks and SUVs in North America—and this has started to yield great results. Now... View Details
- 15 Dec 2023
- News
Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem
problems in humans and animals. Every day, the equivalent of 2,000 garbage trucks full of plastic are dumped into the world’s oceans, rivers, and lakes. Every year, millions of tons of plastic waste leaks into aquatic ecosystems. Only 9%... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Karen Gordon Mills, MBA 1977
financing that ranges from micro loans to help home-based businesses buy delivery trucks to sophisticated loans to build factories, she believes the SBA can stimulate "not just initial product creation, but production innovation,... View Details
- 14 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact
distributing them on the ground with trucks and staff, all the while coordinating with other NGOs, governments, UN agencies, and the military. Despite all that, the organization alone has limited influence over what happens in the country... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 05 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Connecting with Consumers Using Deep Metaphors
varied the set of customers or consumers being studied were in other ways. It was as if we had identified a secret code of thought. The seven deep metaphors discussed in Marketing Metaphoria are those appearing most often across a variety of products ranging from the... View Details
- Web
John H. McArthur | About
importance of spiritual values, which McArthur argued must remain paramount. McArthur also effectively banned most vehicular traffic from Soldiers Field, turning roads once dominated by cars and trucks into lush green spaces. Over the... View Details
- 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
- 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
- 04 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Maersk’s Journey to Decarbonize Shipping
speed the pace of decarbonization in the shipping industry. Furthermore, Maersk is actively campaigning in support of a $150/ton of carbon tax, which could increase costs in the short-run but would actually make maritime shipping more competitive relative to other... View Details
- 17 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Can Autonomous Vehicles Drive with Common Sense?
and helping the flow of traffic third. But you also need to know when to violate these rules and by how much in order to drive in ways that are more practical.” As an example, if a truck is parked in the middle of the road for long... View Details