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50 Ways to Leave your Lover: Keep Failing Til the Last Thing You Try Is Successful

Mills Scofield

To many, a modern meat plant might seem somewhat “shocking”, but to us this “automotive assembly plant operating in reverse” is common place and, in fact, we are not easily “shocked” by much of anything (for evidence of this you are welcome to view the video on our website).

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The Real Problem with the Tesla Model S

Harvard Business Review

It has been ranked as car of the year by a number of automotive outlets, and one friend of mine who lives in San Francisco has gloated noisily about his chance to drive it. The company has responded aggressively to criticism in the past, suing the BBC show "Top Gear" in 2011 over a 2008 review of the car; the case was tossed out of court.

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Everyone Loses in a US vs. China Trade War

Harvard Business Review

China is America's third-largest export market, behind Canada and Mexico, accounting for 7% of US exports as of August 2011. America's biggest exports to China in the first eight months of 2011 were waste and scrap ($8 billion, 12% of total exports), soybeans ($5 billion, 8%), aircraft and related items ($4.2

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How Volvo Reinvented Itself Through Hiring

Harvard Business Review

Developing what we call an “M&A strategy for talent” is one way to overcome this. To get the skills and change agents it needed, Volvo looked outside the automotive industry. Between 2011 and 2015, the company added 3,000 new people in engineering and development.

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Frugal Innovation: Lessons from Carlos Ghosn, CEO, Renault-Nissan

Harvard Business Review

And under Ghosn's leadership , Renault-Nissan has proactively embraced frugal engineering and become one of the world's leading producers of both electric cars as well as low-cost vehicles — two of the fastest growing and most promising market segments in the global automotive sector. And they did it. lakhs ($6,600).

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New York City's Culture Will Shape the Next Tech Sector

Harvard Business Review

But our company makes software that is used across dozens of industry verticals — automotive, health care, hospitality, and the public sector — each with their own specific needs and goals. Our intention for Hook & Loop was not to hire the best and brightest software developers.

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What’s Wrong with the FAA’s New Drone Rules

Harvard Business Review

In 2012, Congress gave the FAA until 2015 to develop rules for military, commercial, and privately-owned drones to operate in U.S. In fact, the FAA had originally promised the rules by 2011, but it proceeded to miss every deadline it set for itself , as well as those established by Congress. Both the U.K.