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Social media is more than just a professional responsibility for Alex Priest. He’s the Community Manager at Uber DC, an on-demand car service operating through the mobile web. With close to 7,000 of...
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For most employees, the single most expensive work-related cost incurred on a daily basis is that of commuting from home to work. Despite the dreamy, technology-enabled promise of pajama-clad working...
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Transporting the world’s ever-expanding number of people and supply of goods requires continual growth and adaptation by dozens of industries which—directly and indirectly—move us and our materials by...
View ArticleHow Tesla Utilized Strategic Alliances
A new paradigm that is changing the nature of business competition calls to mind two kids prepping for a street fight, gathering friends, older siblings, and allies. Suddenly, “me against you” becomes...
View ArticleThe First 90 Days: Congressional Transitions Ahead
With so much focus on the presidential faceoff in November, it can be easy to forget that the executive branch is only one-third of the US government. Regardless of the presidential victor, there are...
View ArticleWMATA Board Member: “Why Public Transit is Stalled”
We need to stop calling public investment in “public transportation” a subsidy. America’s economic engine, and the very fabric of our society, is held together by its transportation infrastructure....
View ArticleThe Beaches of Bangladesh: Where Ships Go to Die
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View ArticleBill Ford on Combating Global Gridlock
The auto industry has faced many challenges during the 30 years that I have been part of it. And over those decades we have evolved our products, and at times our whole way of doing business, in an...
View ArticleRevenue Management for Airline Routes
For industries such as airlines and hotels, finding the best pricing model is the difference between survival and certain death. If an airline charges more than the market will bear and flies a row of...
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