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The Rise and Fall of Intel: Lessons from Innovation and Organizational Challenges

This Week’s Focus: Lessons from Intel’s Fall from Grace

Dec 16 •

Is This the End of Low-Cost Airlines in the U.S.?

This Week’s Focus: The Future of American Low-Cost Airlines

Dec 9 •

Immigration and the Gig Economy: The Hands Behind Your Holiday Cheer

This Week’s Focus: Holidays, Platforms, and Immigrant Workers

Dec 2 •

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Get Off My Sidewalks

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The Case Against Self-Checkouts

Aug 23, 2021 • Gad Allon

Southwest Airlines Meltdown: The Real Root Cause

Jan 2, 2023 • Gad Allon

Uber is Finally … Profitable: What Drove This?

Mar 11 • Gad Allon

Scaling the Bitter Bean: How Blank Street Brews Success with a Dash of Mediocrity and a Shot of Frosty Service

Apr 3, 2023 • Gad Allon

First Principles Thinking: Tesla Unboxing the Assembly Line

May 29, 2023 • Gad Allon

Rethinking Returns: The Invisible Battleground of Modern Retail

This Week’s Focus: Holiday Returns

Nov 25 •

Combating Retail Shrinkage with Technology and Social Interventions

This Week’s Focus: The Retail Shrinkage Dilemma

Nov 18 •

Brewed to Order: Starbucks, CosMc’s, and the Latte-est Trends in Mass Customization

This Week’s Focus: Competing Approaches to Mass Customization

Nov 11 •

Right to Repair: McFlurries and Apples

This Week’s Focus: Traditional OEMs Vs the Right to Repair Movement

Nov 4 •

Will AI Make Us More Productive and Help Us Learn Faster?

This Week’s Focus: How AI Will Shape Work and Learning

Oct 28 •

Resilience vs. Economies of Scale in the Modern Supply Chain: A Case Study on the IV Fluid Crisis and Climate-Induced Vulnerabilities

This Week’s Focus: IV Fluid Shortages and the Problem with Concentrated Supply Chains

Oct 21 •

We Wanted 140 Characters, Instead We Got Flying Cars

This Week’s Focus: eVTOL and Urban Air Mobility

Oct 14 •

The Shrimp Supply Chain: A Complex Web of Production, Labor, and Ethical Concerns

A few weeks ago, the Associated Press published an interesting article on the shrimp supply chain, and it starts with a very grim conclusion:

Oct 7 •

The Race to Scale Supershoes

Today’s newsletter has been waiting to be written for quite some time.

Sep 30 •

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Scaling Operations, Gig Economy, Network, Supply Chains

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