Business WeekMore from Business WeekAll LogisticsHuman-Robot Collaboration Gets Workout in a Test WarehouseIn a mock warehouse stocked with granola bars, breakfast cereal, sponges, and other household goods, a worker plucks items from shelves and places them in a plastic bin. The bin is set atop a small wheeled robot that follows the employee’s every step like a puppy.October 30, 2015Business Strategy AlignmentConsumers Rack Up Retail Sales, Apparently Unconcerned About Volatility in Financial WorldRetail sales in the U.S. climbed for a second straight month, a sign consumers may be looking past recent volatility in financial markets.September 17, 2015All LogisticsGoogle Wants to Be Your GrocerGoogle Inc. will start testing a delivery service for fresh food and groceries in two U.S. cities later this year, stepping up competition with online retailer Amazon.com Inc. and start-up Instacart Inc.September 10, 2015All TechnologyStuck With Cloud Provider That May Not Be Your Long-term Choice?In 2010, when Netflix was still early into its shift from DVD rentals to online movies and shows, it started using Amazon Web Services, the retailer's cloud computing division. Now that Netflix streams 100 million-plus hours of video every day, it's sticking with Amazon partly because of Amazon's scale and features, and partly because switching vendors "would be a significant multi-year effort," says Yury Izrailevsky, Netflix's vice president for cloud and platform engineering.September 2, 2015Business Strategy AlignmentBritish Airways Bucks Industry Trend, Sees Valuable Role for 747 at Crowded AirportsIf it's the end of the line for Boeing Co.'s 747 jetliner, nobody told British Airways.September 1, 2015All LogisticsRobots as Co-workers? Not on Your Life.In June this year a robot crushed a man to death in a Volkswagen factory in Germany. The 22-year-old maintenance worker became trapped between a large robotic arm and a metal plate, in an area usually off-bounds to humans.August 27, 2015Business Strategy AlignmentThe Number of Employees, Including C-suite Execs, Working From Home Is RisingDiebold CEO Andy Mattes can't just stroll down the hall at his company's headquarters in Canton, Ohio, to confer with his top executives over coffee. That's because many don't work there. His chief strategist works and lives 2,100 miles away in San Jose; his chief marketing officer is in Boston.August 20, 2015All TechnologyWith Sales Forecasts Not Panning Out, Many Small Manufacturing Companies Unable to Pay BillsPlanning for a pickup in sales, some small manufacturers borrowed money from their larger counterparts to ramp up production. Now, a growing number can't pay for the investments as their forecasts aren't panning out, with energy-related companies being among the hardest hit.July 23, 2015Business Strategy AlignmentGot (Too Much) Milk? U.S. Dairy Businesses Pour It Out as Glut Threatens MarketThere's so much milk flowing out of U.S. cows these days that some is ending up in dirt pits because dairies can't find buyers.July 7, 2015All TechnologyU.S. Ban on Trans Fat to Bring Big Shift in Supply to Food IndustryArtificial trans fat will be banned from the U.S. food supply over the next three years under a ruling by regulators that the products pose health risks that contribute to heart disease, the leading killer of Americans.June 18, 2015Previous PagePage 2 of 22Next Page
