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- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
disconnect between the shippers (demand) and truck owners (supply), had created a layer of intermediaries (brokers) for transporting goods. The founders saw an opportunity in creating an online marketplace for freight—and uniting the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
Flying J. Flying J owned and operated hundreds of truck stops—which it called Travel Plazas—nationwide and was a growing multi-billion dollar business, but broader problems in the oil and credit markets in late 2008 forced it to declare...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
wants to work for the Sierra Club or Goodwill Industries or something, but even if it’s a truck repair business, how do they do business? You know, are they doing what they can and sustainably? Do they seem to treat people fairly with a...
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- 22 May 2020
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Reflections on Service - Armed Forces Alumni Association Student Profiles
weapon system and rapidly engaging the pickup truck. With the truck still rolling forward, I saw the occupants jump out with looks of sheer terror on their faces. I remember the first time pressing the cross-walk button near Continuum and...
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