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- 16 Mar 2009
- News
Railroad Bailout May Offer a Model for Detroit
- 09 Dec 2022
- News
US Railroads and the Pitfalls of Systematic Understaffing
- 01 Nov 2019
- News
Jeff Bezos’s Master Plan
- 06 Jan 2017
- News
Our crumbling infrastructure
- 11 Apr 2016
- News
System Overload
- 15 May 2016
- News
Stop picking on the GDP
- 20 Apr 2023
- News
How Joe Hinrichs is Getting CSX Back on Track
Photo via LinkedIn In a recent Q&A with the Wall Street Journal, new CSX CEO Joe Hinrichs (MBA 1994) discussed the steps he's taken to address challenges at the rail company since becoming CEO in September. First up, the paper notes, was a listening tour. "The best-run... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Growth Investor
Genesee & Wyoming, a railroad holding company. “It was a complex deal, and our thesis generated some uncertainty, but when we sold our assets a year later we had almost doubled our money.” Favorite PD investment: An eight-unit apartment... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Alfred D. Chandler Jr. Remembered
Matsushita. That volume was followed in 2005 by Shaping the Industrial Century: The Remarkable Story of the Evolution of the Modern Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industries. “Such science-based industries have had as much impact on this country in the 20th century as... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
manufacturers ready to build the electric trucks to incorporate that tech, as well as a scalable market strategy. That strategy depends on TuSimple’s Autonomous Freight Network, the world’s first, which Lu likens to a railroad network of... View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Marketing Giant Ted Levitt Remembered
simple question: “What business are you in?” As an example of marketing myopia he cited railroads that “let others take customers away from them because they assumed themselves to be in the railroad business... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
Michael, another son, plans to attend upcoming programs. Concludes Chirchirillo, “With a strong team coming along for the future, and with over 50 percent return on equity and 17 percent increase in sales in 2010, I think we are moving in the right direction.” Michael... View Details
- 29 Oct 2024
- News
A Fearless Fighter Honored
Executive forces—Green continued to fight, blocking German troop access to a vital railroad hub by blowing up a nearby tunnel. After several weeks on the run, though, Green was captured and ultimately killed. “The unity and resolve they... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Rolling Stock in Baker Exhibit
Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism, an exhibit in the Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, confirms there is still much to learn about railroads, whose scale and complexity spawned modern business’s management model. Recent... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Déjà Vu All Over Again
common cyclical nature, whether the crash in question was fueled by land speculation, railroad expansion, the booming life insurance industry, or lax regulation of regional stock exchanges. So, will a deeper understanding of these moments... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
All Aboard
Railroad management used to be a hot topic at HBS, but that was a few decades before David Gunn (MBA '64) arrived at Soldiers Field. Too bad, because Gunn is a modern incarnation of the quintessential View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Wick Moorman (MBA 1989)
can do more to take advantage of. People don’t have that inherent kind of belief about trucks. I spent 12 years on the engineering side of the railroad industry, supervising infrastructure maintenance. I then had what I always describe as... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
steadily improved. Railroads were the big breakthrough, but by 1939, 10 percent of all intercity freight was shipped by motor vehicles. Getty Images For nineteenth-century passengers, riding the rails was a heady experience marked by the... View Details