hub-and-spoke system

The War Below: Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives

by Ernest Scheyder  · 30 Jan 2024  · 355pp  · 133,726 words

Glencore also agreed to supply a steady stream of sulfuric acid to process more batteries. And whereas Redwood chose to build a recycling and processing facility in Nevada to which old batteries were shipped, Li-Cycle opted for a so-called hub-and-spoke model, whereby they would build small facilities across the United States

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as much as 70 percent of the entire recycling process, an eye-popping number that shows why Li-Cycle favored its hub-and-spoke model.55 And just as the United States and other nations are having to grapple with the need to mine more of their own metals for the green energy transition,

Cockpit Confidential: Everything You Need to Know About Air Travel: Questions, Answers, and Reflections

by Patrick Smith  · 6 May 2013  · 309pp  · 100,573 words

departures in the United States. At first, their deployment tended to mirror that of their predecessor turboprops—“commuter planes” we used to call them—going hub-and-spoke on routes 300 miles or shorter. But larger, second-generation RJs proved able to capitalize on longer runs previously the sole domain of Airbuses

The Sushi Economy: Globalization and the Making of a Modern Delicacy

by Sasha Issenberg  · 1 Jan 2007  · 534pp  · 15,752 words

chef Hepburn, Audrey Hibino, Terutoshi hierarchical division of labor, sushi bars Hirohito (Emperor of Japan) Hitch, Steve Hollywood and sushi home chefs Hori, Takeaki horse mackerel (aji) horseradish to kill toxins Hoshizaki, Sadagoro hub-and-spoke mentality Hudson, Rock hunter-gatherers hurricanes Hussein, Saddam ICCAT (International Commission for the Conservation of the Atlantic Tuna

The Myth of Capitalism: Monopolies and the Death of Competition

by Jonathan Tepper  · 20 Nov 2018  · 417pp  · 97,577 words

Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing

by Peter Robison  · 29 Nov 2021  · 382pp  · 105,657 words

the line with a modest order of ten. United had been reducing its fleet of 737s, but as the hub-and-spoke strategy took hold, the airline unexpectedly bought back some of those it had sold and ordered large quantities of the new 128-seat 737-300. Other carriers followed. A valuable new market segment

Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose

by Tony Hsieh  · 6 Jun 2010  · 222pp  · 75,778 words

Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order

by Parag Khanna  · 4 Mar 2008  · 537pp  · 158,544 words

’s consultation—competing to lead the twenty-first century. During the Cold War, America’s anticommunist Truman Doctrine created robust “hub-and-spoke” alliances, as Prussia had in the nineteenth century.12 By contrast, its current “coalitions of the willing” style of conducting foreign policy negotiates diplomatic

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important zone of industrial and population growth. He thus revised Mackinder’s famous epigram about the heartland: “Who controls the Rimland rules Eurasia; who rules Eurasia controls the destinies of the world.”9 During the Cold War, America’s outside-in system of “hub-and-spoke” alliances with Australia and New Zealand (known as

Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant

by W. Chan Kim and Renée A. Mauborgne  · 20 Jan 2014  · 287pp  · 80,180 words

strategists always stand apart. By applying the four actions of eliminating, reducing, raising, and creating, they differentiate their profiles from the industry’s average profile. Southwest, for example, pioneered point-to-point travel between midsize cities; previously, the industry operated through hub-and-spoke systems. Compelling Tagline A good strategy has a clear-cut

Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries

by Safi Bahcall  · 19 Mar 2019  · 393pp  · 115,217 words

Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire

by Brad Stone  · 10 May 2021  · 569pp  · 156,139 words

to bright green Fresh vans for the last-mile delivery to customers’ homes. Logistics employees who worked on the California service said this hub-and-spoke model ended up being inefficient and unreliable; one said that Amazon was “basically stapling a $10 or $20 bill to every order.” The Fresh team also tracked

The End of Traffic and the Future of Transport: Second Edition

by David Levinson and Kevin Krizek  · 17 Aug 2015  · 257pp  · 64,285 words

The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future

by Chris Guillebeau  · 7 May 2012  · 248pp  · 72,174 words

A Demon of Our Own Design: Markets, Hedge Funds, and the Perils of Financial Innovation

by Richard Bookstaber  · 5 Apr 2007  · 289pp  · 113,211 words

Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy

by Jonathan Taplin  · 17 Apr 2017  · 222pp  · 70,132 words

Click Here to Kill Everybody: Security and Survival in a Hyper-Connected World

by Bruce Schneier  · 3 Sep 2018  · 448pp  · 117,325 words

WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us

by Tim O'Reilly  · 9 Oct 2017  · 561pp  · 157,589 words

Wealth and Poverty: A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century

by George Gilder  · 30 Apr 1981  · 590pp  · 153,208 words

The Seventh Sense: Power, Fortune, and Survival in the Age of Networks

by Joshua Cooper Ramo  · 16 May 2016  · 326pp  · 103,170 words

Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia

by Anthony M. Townsend  · 29 Sep 2013  · 464pp  · 127,283 words

The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine’s Computer Age

by Robert Wachter  · 7 Apr 2015  · 309pp  · 114,984 words

Dawn of the Code War: America's Battle Against Russia, China, and the Rising Global Cyber Threat

by John P. Carlin and Garrett M. Graff  · 15 Oct 2018  · 568pp  · 164,014 words

Trillion Dollar Triage: How Jay Powell and the Fed Battled a President and a Pandemic---And Prevented Economic Disaster

by Nick Timiraos  · 1 Mar 2022  · 357pp  · 107,984 words

The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty

by Benjamin H. Bratton  · 19 Feb 2016  · 903pp  · 235,753 words

Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier

by Edward L. Glaeser  · 1 Jan 2011  · 598pp  · 140,612 words

The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom

by Yochai Benkler  · 14 May 2006  · 678pp  · 216,204 words

Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century

by P. W. Singer  · 1 Jan 2010  · 797pp  · 227,399 words

Exploding the Phone: The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws Who Hacked Ma Bell

by Phil Lapsley  · 5 Feb 2013  · 744pp  · 142,748 words

Trust: The Social Virtue and the Creation of Prosperity

by Francis Fukuyama  · 1 Jan 1995  · 585pp  · 165,304 words

Breaking News: The Remaking of Journalism and Why It Matters Now

by Alan Rusbridger  · 14 Oct 2018  · 579pp  · 160,351 words

Treasure Islands: Uncovering the Damage of Offshore Banking and Tax Havens

by Nicholas Shaxson  · 11 Apr 2011  · 429pp  · 120,332 words

The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America

by Margaret O'Mara  · 8 Jul 2019

Driverless: Intelligent Cars and the Road Ahead

by Hod Lipson and Melba Kurman  · 22 Sep 2016

Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies

by Geoffrey West  · 15 May 2017  · 578pp  · 168,350 words

The Bicycling Guide to Complete Bicycle Maintenance and Repair: For Road and Mountain Bikes

by Todd Downs  · 16 Mar 2005  · 630pp  · 177,650 words

The Only Game in Town: Central Banks, Instability, and Avoiding the Next Collapse

by Mohamed A. El-Erian  · 26 Jan 2016  · 318pp  · 77,223 words

Street Smart: The Rise of Cities and the Fall of Cars

by Samuel I. Schwartz  · 17 Aug 2015  · 340pp  · 92,904 words

The Internet Trap: How the Digital Economy Builds Monopolies and Undermines Democracy

by Matthew Hindman  · 24 Sep 2018

The End of Theory: Financial Crises, the Failure of Economics, and the Sweep of Human Interaction

by Richard Bookstaber  · 1 May 2017  · 293pp  · 88,490 words

How to Stop Brexit (And Make Britain Great Again)

by Nick Clegg  · 11 Oct 2017  · 93pp  · 30,572 words

America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy

by Francis Fukuyama  · 20 Mar 2007  · 214pp  · 57,614 words

MacroWikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World

by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams  · 28 Sep 2010  · 552pp  · 168,518 words

Becoming Data Literate: Building a great business, culture and leadership through data and analytics

by David Reed  · 31 Aug 2021  · 168pp  · 49,067 words

Arriving Today: From Factory to Front Door -- Why Everything Has Changed About How and What We Buy

by Christopher Mims  · 13 Sep 2021  · 385pp  · 112,842 words

The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor

by William Easterly  · 4 Mar 2014  · 483pp  · 134,377 words

Aiming High: Masayoshi Son, SoftBank, and Disrupting Silicon Valley

by Atsuo Inoue  · 18 Nov 2021  · 295pp  · 89,441 words

Quality Investing: Owning the Best Companies for the Long Term

by Torkell T. Eide, Lawrence A. Cunningham and Patrick Hargreaves  · 5 Jan 2016  · 178pp  · 52,637 words

Why Airplanes Crash: Aviation Safety in a Changing World

by Clinton V. Oster, John S. Strong and C. Kurt Zorn  · 28 May 1992  · 217pp  · 152 words

Bank 3.0: Why Banking Is No Longer Somewhere You Go but Something You Do

by Brett King  · 26 Dec 2012  · 382pp  · 120,064 words

Aerotropolis

by John D. Kasarda and Greg Lindsay  · 2 Jan 2009  · 603pp  · 182,781 words

Boeing Versus Airbus: The Inside Story of the Greatest International Competition in Business

by John Newhouse  · 16 Jan 2007  · 278pp  · 83,504 words

Competition Demystified

by Bruce C. Greenwald  · 31 Aug 2016  · 482pp  · 125,973 words

The Future Is Asian

by Parag Khanna  · 5 Feb 2019  · 496pp  · 131,938 words

Skygods: The Fall of Pan Am

by Robert Gandt  · 1 Mar 1995  · 371pp  · 101,792 words

Virtual Competition

by Ariel Ezrachi and Maurice E. Stucke  · 30 Nov 2016

Frugal Innovation: How to Do Better With Less

by Jaideep Prabhu Navi Radjou  · 15 Feb 2015  · 400pp  · 88,647 words

The Data Warehouse Toolkit: The Definitive Guide to Dimensional Modeling

by Ralph Kimball and Margy Ross  · 30 Jun 2013

How the Post Office Created America: A History

by Winifred Gallagher  · 7 Jan 2016  · 431pp  · 106,435 words

The Crux

by Richard Rumelt  · 27 Apr 2022  · 363pp  · 109,834 words

Lessons from the Titans: What Companies in the New Economy Can Learn from the Great Industrial Giants to Drive Sustainable Success

by Scott Davis, Carter Copeland and Rob Wertheimer  · 13 Jul 2020  · 372pp  · 101,678 words

The Autonomous Revolution: Reclaiming the Future We’ve Sold to Machines

by William Davidow and Michael Malone  · 18 Feb 2020  · 304pp  · 80,143 words

Mapmatics: How We Navigate the World Through Numbers

by Paulina Rowinska  · 5 Jun 2024  · 361pp  · 100,834 words

The Economists' Hour: How the False Prophets of Free Markets Fractured Our Society

by Binyamin Appelbaum  · 4 Sep 2019  · 614pp  · 174,226 words

Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet

by Andrew Blum  · 28 May 2012  · 314pp  · 83,631 words

The Content Trap: A Strategist's Guide to Digital Change

by Bharat Anand  · 17 Oct 2016  · 554pp  · 149,489 words

Pivotal Decade: How the United States Traded Factories for Finance in the Seventies

by Judith Stein  · 30 Apr 2010  · 497pp  · 143,175 words

eBoys

by Randall E. Stross  · 30 Oct 2008  · 381pp  · 112,674 words

Design of Business: Why Design Thinking Is the Next Competitive Advantage

by Roger L. Martin  · 15 Feb 2009

An Empire of Wealth: Rise of American Economy Power 1607-2000

by John Steele Gordon  · 12 Oct 2009  · 519pp  · 148,131 words

Model Thinker: What You Need to Know to Make Data Work for You

by Scott E. Page  · 27 Nov 2018  · 543pp  · 153,550 words

All the Money in the World

by Peter W. Bernstein  · 17 Dec 2008  · 538pp  · 147,612 words

Imagining India

by Nandan Nilekani  · 25 Nov 2008  · 777pp  · 186,993 words

Makers

by Chris Anderson  · 1 Oct 2012  · 238pp  · 73,824 words

The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co.

by William D. Cohan  · 25 Dec 2015  · 1,009pp  · 329,520 words

Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems

by Betsy Beyer, Chris Jones, Jennifer Petoff and Niall Richard Murphy  · 15 Apr 2016  · 719pp  · 181,090 words

The Making of Global Capitalism

by Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin  · 8 Oct 2012  · 823pp  · 206,070 words

Startup CEO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Business, + Website

by Matt Blumberg  · 13 Aug 2013  · 561pp  · 114,843 words

Designing Interfaces

by Jenifer Tidwell  · 15 Dec 2010

The Vanishing Neighbor: The Transformation of American Community

by Marc J. Dunkelman  · 3 Aug 2014  · 327pp  · 88,121 words

Intertwingled: Information Changes Everything

by Peter Morville  · 14 May 2014  · 165pp  · 50,798 words

Abundance

by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson  · 18 Mar 2025  · 227pp  · 84,566 words

Amazon: How the World’s Most Relentless Retailer Will Continue to Revolutionize Commerce

by Natalie Berg and Miya Knights  · 28 Jan 2019  · 404pp  · 95,163 words

Rebooting India: Realizing a Billion Aspirations

by Nandan Nilekani  · 4 Feb 2016  · 332pp  · 100,601 words

Super Continent: The Logic of Eurasian Integration

by Kent E. Calder  · 28 Apr 2019

Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller

by Alec Nevala-Lee  · 1 Aug 2022  · 864pp  · 222,565 words

Age of the City: Why Our Future Will Be Won or Lost Together

by Ian Goldin and Tom Lee-Devlin  · 21 Jun 2023  · 248pp  · 73,689 words

The Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion

by John Hagel Iii and John Seely Brown  · 12 Apr 2010  · 319pp  · 89,477 words

Extreme Economies: Survival, Failure, Future – Lessons From the World’s Limits

by Richard Davies  · 4 Sep 2019  · 412pp  · 128,042 words

Against Intellectual Monopoly

by Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine  · 6 Jul 2008  · 607pp  · 133,452 words

The End of Big: How the Internet Makes David the New Goliath

by Nicco Mele  · 14 Apr 2013  · 270pp  · 79,992 words

The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another World

by Sarah Stewart Johnson  · 6 Jul 2020  · 400pp  · 99,489 words

Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart

by Nicholas Carr  · 28 Jan 2025  · 231pp  · 85,135 words

The Post-American World: Release 2.0

by Fareed Zakaria  · 1 Jan 2008  · 344pp  · 93,858 words

The Silent Intelligence: The Internet of Things

by Daniel Kellmereit and Daniel Obodovski  · 19 Sep 2013  · 138pp  · 40,787 words

Trading at the Speed of Light: How Ultrafast Algorithms Are Transforming Financial Markets

by Donald MacKenzie  · 24 May 2021  · 400pp  · 121,988 words

The Verdict: Did Labour Change Britain?

by Polly Toynbee and David Walker  · 6 Oct 2011  · 471pp  · 109,267 words