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The Rise and Fall of Intel: Lessons from Innovation and Organizational Challenges
Is This the End of Low-Cost Airlines in the U.S.?
Immigration and the Gig Economy: The Hands Behind Your Holiday Cheer
Rethinking Returns: The Invisible Battleground of Modern Retail
Combating Retail Shrinkage with Technology and Social Interventions
Brewed to Order: Starbucks, CosMc’s, and the Latte-est Trends in Mass Customization
Right to Repair: McFlurries and Apples
Will AI Make Us More Productive and Help Us Learn Faster?
We Wanted 140 Characters, Instead We Got Flying Cars
The Shrimp Supply Chain: A Complex Web of Production, Labor, and Ethical Concerns
Quick Service Restaurants and Robots: From Autocado to AI
Evolving Through Crises: The Role of Structure and Founder Mode
From Third Place to Third Wave. Will Starbucks’ New CEO Change More Than Just the Coffee?
Bridging Cultures: The Challenge of Transplanting TSMC’s Success to the U.S.
Economies of Density in Cold Supply Chains: Understanding the Lineage IPO
Delta’s CrowdStrike Debacle: A Service Failure Analysis
The Olympics and the Great Condom Shortage: A Gold Medal in Logistics
Summer Travel and the Changing Landscape of Airline Loyalty Programs
The Great Strava Debate: To Free or Not to Free
The Impact of Gen AI on Service Jobs
Running on Lies: How Spring Energy’s ‘Awesome Sauce’ and Toyota’s Safety Scandals Misled Consumers
New York’s Controversial Delay of Congestion Pricing
Challenges and Trends in Shifting Global Supply Chains: When De-risking Becomes Re-risking
The Economics and Operations of Vintage Clothing
The Rise and Retreat of Ghost Kitchens: A Culinary Revolution Reconsidered
Sweetgreen’s Sizzling Steak Strategy: Attracting Men, Scaling Up, and Crunching Numbers
Robotaxis: Uber’s Autopilot Anxiety
Navigating the Complexity of Drug Shortages in the Healthcare Industry
Scramble for the Table: Reservations and Scalping
Time is Money … What if Less Time is More Money?
The Retail Battleground: The Convergence of Automation, Outsourcing, and Labor Laws
From Expansion to Exasperation: How Scalability Became the Consulting World’s Achilles’ Heel
The Cocoa Supply Chain: On Monocropping and Financial Hedging
On Bags, Fanny Packs, and Airlines
Uber is Finally … Profitable: What Drove This?
Wendy’s Flips on Dynamic Pricing
Fast Dining: Marc Lore’s Wonder in the Shift from Food Trucks to Food Halls
Amazon’s Strategic Moves to Counter Temu’s Competitive Edge: The BuyBox Innovation
Rethinking the Retail Apocalypse: A Closer Look at Retail’s Evolution
Gig Economy, AI, and LLM: Friends or Foes?
Vroom Goes Bust: A Cautionary Tale in the Fast Lane of Online Used-Car Sales
Navigating the Turbulence of Modular Strategy, Innovation, and Quality Control at Boeing
Balancing Speed and Sustainability: The Operational Dilemma of Reusable Cups in Drive-Thrus
Manufacturing Jobs Might Come Back: Safer and Fair? Not Clear