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UPS’s Longitudes Radio takes you on the path to the future with industry leaders and influencers, authors and startup innovators chiseling away at the next big idea. Conversations dig into trending topics, emerging technologies like artificial intelligence and blockchain, as well as game-changing developments in e-commerce, sustainability, trade and logistics that are reshaping the global economy and the way we'll live in the world of tomorrow.
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We’re closing out our three-part podcast series exploring the Black business landscape by going back to the beginning — the founding of the United States — and examining a not-so-simple challenge: How do we rewire the American Dream for Black people? To answer that question, we welcome Nat Irvin, Assistant Dean of Thought Leadership and Civic Engagement at the University of Louisville, to Longitudes Radio. Irvin argues that business is uniquely suited to dismantle systematic racism and fuel a...
When Yelitsa Jean-Charles was a young girl, she didn’t see any dolls that looked like her. In fact, when her parents tried to give her a non-white doll, she cried because it wasn’t “the pretty one.” She didn’t know it yet, but in that moment, a business was born. Today Yelitsa is the founder of Healthy Roots Dolls, a toy company that creates dolls and storybooks to empower young girls and showcase the beauty of our diversity. In this episode of Longitudes Radio, part two in a three-part serie...
Whether at the local or federal level, Anthony Foxx knows perhaps better than anybody how transportation can forever transform a community — for better or worse. As U.S. Secretary of Transportation for President Barack Obama and the former mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina, Foxx strived to modernize the American transportation landscape, recognizing how such an agenda could serve as a great equalizer for communities of color. “There’s a reason why we use the phrase ‘other side o...
Connie Matisse had all kinds of plans for her business. Then coronavirus hit. Like many entrepreneurs grappling with how to move forward during a global pandemic, the co-founder and chief marketing officer of East Fork faced a simple yet scary question: What’s next? In this episode of Longitudes Radio, Matisse takes us behind the scenes of her Asheville, North Carolina-based pottery company, explaining exactly how the company switched gears to get ahead of the coronavirus crisis. It all began...
The coronavirus pandemic is changing daily life as we know it. Society at large is grappling with how we live and work during a time when the only certainty is more uncertainty. Behind the scenes, however, transportation and logistics workers move the healthcare supplies and medicines needed to fuel an effective response to a global problem. Two experts with decades of healthcare logistics experience between them — UPS Healthcare President Wes Wheeler and Rob Feeney, CEO of Medvantx, a ...
Most of us don’t have just a single face. We have many different faces for different people and different environments. But when we talk about diversity and inclusion in the corporate space, a common sentiment goes something like this: Bring your authentic self to work. But really, who does that? Nobody — at least not in those simplistic terms — argues UPS Executive Communications Manager Janet Stovall, chief speechwriter for CEO David Abney. Stovall moderated a recent panel...
UPS knows a thing or two about logistics. We fuel the movement of goods between every corner of the world, as our Smart Logistics Network helps us reimagine the role of the delivery provider in more than 220 countries and territories around the globe every day. But what if you had to send goods — and people — to the Moon? Or even Mars? Our guest on Longitudes Radio today has the answers to those questions, which are moving from the world of science fiction to the real world.
This small business owner is shattering outdated perceptions of “beauty.” She’s also showcasing the business value of “revolutionary inclusivity.”
Two-foot-long gummy worms, the world’s spiciest lollipop and the largest stress ball you’ll ever see. Those products sound more like the brainchild of well, a child, than the foundation for a thriving small business. However, the Vat19 story and its founder, Jamie Salvatori, are different. And we had to see for ourselves their formula for success. That’s why UPS Vice President of Global Marketing Chris Byrne traveled to the Vat19 headquarters in St. Louis to unpack how Vat19 is thriving in su...
Invent life tomorrow. That’s the central mission for Joe Coughlin of MIT’s AgeLab, who says we all need to rethink everything about how to serve adults living longer and longer. Nowhere is this calling more pressing than in healthcare, where people are reimagining the “doctor’s office,” increasingly turning to care from the comfort of their own home and getting tested before they get sick. At the same time, the global outsourced healthcare logistics market will grow to $102 billion by 2021, f...
As people around the world live longer and healthier lives, how will companies adjust their strategies to delight aging customers who carry more purchasing power than ever before? Not enough business leaders have the answer to that question, argues Joe Coughlin, Director of MIT’s AgeLab, a multidisciplinary research program that works to improve the quality of life for older people and those who care for them. In a two-part conversation, Coughlin examines the ripple effects of a global societ...
As Tim Brown sees it, the great problem for organizations today is they struggle to think far enough into the future. That’s because they don’t have the ecosystem or the people in place to anticipate where the world is heading. But the CEO and President of IDEO is bringing together leaders from different backgrounds, industries and life experiences to tackle our greatest challenges. Whether it’s the circular economy, urban mobility or healthcare – or enabling technologies like Artificia...
2When you hear the name Tim Brown (not the football player), the words design thinking are likely to follow. As a leading influencer of the design thinking movement, Tim encourages companies to solve problems primarily through the lens of what people need. In other words, Tim wants us all to think more like designers. In this episode of Longitudes Radio, kicking off a two-part series, the CEO and President of IDEO argues that big ideas aren’t the exclusive domain of “creative” types, saying th...
Richard Branson jokes that he rarely says no to much of anything, which has earned him the nickname Doctor Yes among his peers. Perhaps that explains the ocean-spanning hot air balloon rides and kitesurfing across the English Channel – or as he calls it, his “insatiable interest in life.”The founder of the Virgin Group says such a mindset fueled his well-known success in the airline and music businesses, among other ventures, as well as his philanthropy around the world. It’s also the driving...
Additive manufacturing will forever shift the concept of supply and demand, moving businesses and consumers from a mindset of “best fit” to “my fit.” UPS’s Alan Amling and Fast Radius founder Rick Smith explain why 3D printing is nothing short of nirvana for businesses plagued by mounting warehouse inventories and profit-draining inefficiencies.They imagine a world where we can make whatever we want whenever we want it.
Starting your own business is hard – no, it’s really hard.Just ask the millions of aspiring small business owners whose “big idea” never made headway in the real world. It’s not that these entrepreneurs didn’t care or work hard enough, argues Gene Marks, a columnist, author and small business owner who writes for The Washington Post, Forbes, Entrepreneur.com and other publications.It’s that they didn’t realize what it would really take to get their business off the ground and running.In the l...
If you’re in the retail business, you’ve probably heard of Martin Newman. He’s founder and chairman of Practicology, a multi-channel and e-commerce consultancy group in the United Kingdom, Australia and Hong Kong. Whether it’s an issue with technology or design or a question about deploying data against the backdrop of choppy retail waters, Martin’s 30 years of experience helps businesses take their strategy to the next level. If you’re wondering about the creative ways retailers are approach...
Today’s online shopper wants what they want when they want it. But they also want to return whatever they want whenever they want. The problem? Too many companies focus on that first reality while ignoring the latter challenge, Toby Moore, co-founder and CEO of Optoro, argues. In this episode, the leader of the reverse logistics company explains how an innovative returns approach creates return customers. Consumers today want to return any item – no questions asked. But we have plenty of ques...
There are essentially two avenues to pursue in addressing logistic and transportation issues facing cities of the future. Build a better mousetrap - do what you do, but only better - or look for a totally different approach. Wrapping up our three-part series on urban logistics, Thomas Madrecki, director of urban logistics and mobility at UPS and Peter Harris, director of sustainability for UPS Europe talk about this balance between efficiency and self-disruption, and what it's starting to loo...
As the director of the MIT Megacity Logistics Lab, Matthias Winkenbach has cities on the brain. Whether it’s urban logistics, last-mile delivery, infrastructure design or data analytics, Matthias is at the center of the next wave of solutions to the urbanization movement. In the second episode of a three-part series, Matthias provides a ground-level look at the most exciting innovations surrounding city delivery. How is urban density both a cure and curse for sustainable urban logistics? What...
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