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Front-Line To C-Suite | Inside The Heart and Mind of Former Disney COO and Experience Steward Jim MacPhee

Consulting Matters

Today, I'm chatting with one of my favorite executives of all time, Jim MacPhee, recently retired Chief Operating Officer and self-proclaimed Experience Steward for Walt Disney World Parks and Resorts. In January 2018, Jim was promoted to the role of Chief Operating Officer/Senior Vice President, Walt Disney World® Resort.

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Job Hub: Uber Jobs and Culture

Management Consulted

Uber is a San Francisco-based start-up that has been turning heads since its launch in 2009, “bringing people and their cities closer.” Uber was founded in 2009 by Travis Kalanick and Garrett Camp, and the accompanying Uber app was launched the next year in June. ———– History & Culture.

Culture 100
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BearingPoint Interview Preparation – Mystery or History?

Management Consulted

However, today BearingPoint is emerging as a player in the operations and technology scene, especially in Europe, and has re-established an impressive growth trajectory. Their accounting problems and lawsuits would continue until 2009 when the U.S. In August 2009, there was a company management buyout and restructuring.

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The Right and Wrong Ways to Regulate Self-Driving Cars

Harvard Business

. “Self-driving” or “smart” cars will simply become whatever we call the next generation of transportation technology. legal system is already having trouble keeping up with the pace of developments in transportation. The change will become invisible. traffic deaths.

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Driverless technology: a soon-to-be reality?

Tom Spencer

As exciting as that still sounds, the idea of driverless has been around ever since motorised cars were invented back in the 1920s and realised from at least 2009 when Google launched its self-driving car project, Waymo. But one thing it didn’t get right was the flying cars; instead, the closest thing we have are driverless cars.

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The Scale of the Climate Catastrophe Will Depend on What Businesses Do Over the Next Decade

Harvard Business

The report’s beginnings trace back to 2009, when the annual UN global climate conference resulted in an agreement that the world should hold warming to 2.0°C The list of actions companies take is well-developed and documented, and most large companies do the following: Slash energy use and emissions in operations.

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Message to 5.7 Million Truck Drivers "No Drivers Needed"

MishTalk

We are going to have a driverless truck because there will be money in it," adds James Barrett, president of 105-rig Road Scholar Transport Inc. Traditionally, these trucks would require four drivers to operate 24 hours a day. 2009-12-09 Tech Ticker. 2009-10-30 King World News. 2009-05-15: My Speech at Google.