by Wall Street Journal | Feb 6, 2023 | 3D Printing
Hafnarfjarðarkaupstaður, Iceland, is a town of 30,000 souls built on a lava field, just south of the island nation’s capital city of Reykjavik. If sightseers come this way, it’s for tours of the homes of local “hidden folk”—the dwarfs and elves of the Norse fairy...
by Wall Street Journal | Jan 12, 2023 | Manufacturing
The U.S. auto industry is entering one of its biggest factory-building booms in years, a surge of spending largely driven by the shift to electric vehicles and new federal subsidies aimed at boosting U.S. battery manufacturing. Through November, about $33 billion in...
by Wall Street Journal | Oct 14, 2022 | Workforce
U.S. companies are bringing workforces and supply chains home at a historic pace.American companies are on pace to reshore, or return to the U.S., nearly 350,000 jobs this year, according to a report published Friday by the Reshoring Initiative. That would be the...
by Wall Street Journal | Sep 21, 2022 | Culture
Join that committee. Plan a lunch for the summer interns. And while you’re at it, can you help that guy in marketing prep for next week’s presentation? He’ll be delivering it, of course.The chorus of asks has always been there, demanding our time. But as we head back...
by Wall Street Journal | Aug 17, 2022 | Supply Chain
Three years ago, very few people thought about supply chains. “Where did that product come from?” I used to ask my students. “I got it at Amazon,” was often the answer. “No! How did it get to Amazon?” was my reply, which often was met with a shrug.Now that so many...
