Bloomberg Businessweek
Chicago's Hard Choices
Mayor Lori Lightfoot pushed through an austerity budget, alienating some progressives
4 min |
December 07, 2020
Bloomberg Businessweek
Covid Strains Microcredit
The world’s poorest borrowers are struggling to keep up with the loans that fund their livelihoods
4 min |
December 07, 2020
Bloomberg Businessweek
Did Airbnb Win The Pandemic?
The company’s ability to adapt to Covid puts it ahead of rivals and may have saved its IPO
4 min |
December 07, 2020
strategy+business
Transforming information into insight
Focus on six organizational elements to build a world-class data and insights capability.
8 min |
Winter 2020
strategy+business
THE URGENT NEED FOR SOPHISTICATED LEADERSHIP
The pandemic has highlighted a series of paradoxes inherent to the work of leaders. What comes next will depend on how well leaders face up to them.
10+ min |
Winter 2020
strategy+business
The road to successful change is lined with trade-offs
Rather than trying to convince people your change initiative is the right one, invite them to talk openly about what it might take to implement it: the good, the bad, and the frustrating.
10+ min |
Winter 2020
strategy+business
Sustaining productivity virtually
Maintaining productivity levels among remote employees is an enduring challenge. Here are five ways to help businesses and employees thrive while people work at home.
7 min |
Winter 2020
strategy+business
FORWARD TO normal
Entertainment and media companies are building business models that are resilient to the enduring changes in consumer behavior ushered in by COVID-19.
10+ min |
Winter 2020
strategy+business
How leaders can promote racial justice in the workplace
Embrace four principles to turn today’s diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives into sustained progress.
9 min |
Winter 2020
strategy+business
CREATING THE OFFICE OF THE FUTURE
In a remodeled world, it is vital for companies to reinvent ways of working.
10+ min |
Winter 2020
strategy+business
Consumer companies must take leaps, not steps
As shoppers show how quickly they can adapt to external shocks, retailers will need to radically reconfigure their business models.
7 min |
Winter 2020
Professional Mariner
Mariner's role still unknown as autonomous shipping gains speed
Mariners’ role still unknown as autonomous shipping gains speed
6 min |
December - January2021
strategy+business
Businesses can fast-track innovation to help during a crisis
“Unrealistic” timelines can actually work. Here’s how.
5 min |
Winter 2020
Professional Mariner
CAPTAIN MURCHISON - Texas Game Wardens gain crime-fighting advantage in the Gulf of Mexico
It’s a cat-and-mouse game on the high seas: Unlicensed commercial fisher-men from Mexico head north into Texas waters in small, swift boats called “lanchas,” hoping to catch a haul of seafood before the authorities catch them.
7 min |
Annual American Ship Review 2021
Professional Mariner
Piracy edges closer to home with wave of raids in southern Gulf
In the brief cellphone video recorded by a crewmember on the offshore supply vessel (OSV) Remas, the pirates walk back and forth on the deck of the ship, clenching their guns and using them to point as they order around the crew. Their faces are draped in clothing and bandanas.
4 min |
December - January2021
strategy+business
Agility and experience management work better together
Many companies achieve early wins with separate transformational efforts, then stall. But if combined and enhanced using “return on experience,” or ROX, measures, these two programs can unlock each other’s potential.
7 min |
Winter 2020
Professional Mariner
MADONNA - Madonna adds flexibility, ice-breaking capacity for Wisconsin operator
For most of this century, the Washington Island Ferry Line had a single icebreaking vessel available for winter runs across Lake Michigan’s Death’s Door Passage. The arrangement caused some sleepless nights for company President Hoyt Purinton.
5 min |
Annual American Ship Review 2021
Professional Mariner
Casualties
NTSB: Dredge hit Texas gas pipeline, causing fire that killed four
4 min |
December - January2021
Professional Mariner
FERRIES/EXCURSION - COVID-19 threatens once-robust passenger vessel market
The passenger boat market has been relatively strong over the past few years, driven largely by ferry operators on all three coasts replacing older vessels and adding to existing fleets. Meanwhile, the relatively robust economy stoked demand for new excursion and tourist vessels.
9 min |
Annual American Ship Review 2021
Professional Mariner
IMO emissions report raises new concerns about methane slip
A recent report from the International Maritime Organization (IMO) reveals that global shipping emissions increased nearly 10 percent from 2012 to 2018, with the industry facing a growing challenge concerning methane slip.
3 min |
December - January2021
Professional Mariner
Matson continues fleet renewal with versatile Kanaloa-class ships
Matson Navigation has a proud history in the Pacific dating back more than a century. The 870-foot container/roll-on, roll-off (conro) Lurline will build on that legacy well into the future.
6 min |
Annual American Ship Review 2021
Professional Mariner
Bay State brothers find industry niche by making old into new
Zero non-conformities is what you want to hear when the U.S. Coast Guard inspects your tugboat. Once you’ve prepared your vessel, the inspectors come aboard to peruse your paperwork. They ask you pointed questions, to which they expect straightforward answers. Perusal completed, they then scrutinize all of the related safety systems, from bilge to antennas — even the ship’s bell.
5 min |
December - January2021
Professional Mariner
MEGAYACHTS - Megayacht demand remains strong in North America despite virus impacts
Twelve months ago, 2020 looked to be a banner year for megayachts. Sales were on the rise, clients were interested and yards were buzzing with projects. The 2019 fall boat shows, which informally kick off the yachting industry’s year, saw record attendance both in terms of exhibitors and visitors. The Marine Industries Association of South Florida reported that the 2019 Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show brought in more than $715 million in sales.
4 min |
Annual American Ship Review 2021
Professional Mariner
Signals
A year into the pandemic, thousands ‘essentially indentured’ on ships
3 min |
December - January2021
Professional Mariner
SEAWAY PILOT V - Seaway Pilots' launch built to take on the icy St. Lawrence
The St. Lawrence Seaway Pilots work in some of the harshest conditions imaginable. The pilots’ new launch, Seaway Pilot V, has already shown itself up to the task.
6 min |
Annual American Ship Review 2021
Professional Mariner
Analysis points to faulty loading, low ballast in Golden Ray rollover
While the salvage of the sunken vehicle carrier Golden Ray has been delayed for months due to COVID-19 and the hurricane season, analysis by the U.S. Coast Guard has determined a possible cause for the rollover: a combination of vehicles placed too high on the ship’s decks, and not enough ballast water gave the placement of the cargo.
2 min |
December - January2021
Professional Mariner
SHEARWATER - Speedy Shearwater creates new opportunities for offshore research
The scientists at Duke University Marine Lab had a good idea what they wanted in a new research vessel. It had to be quick enough to keep pace with the speedy pilot whales, and efficient enough for voyages well offshore.
6 min |
Annual American Ship Review 2021
Professional Mariner
Seastreak newcomer pushing through dip in demand
Two years ago, Seastreak LLC took delivery of Seastreak Commodore, a 600-passenger fast ferry, from Gulf Craft of Franklin, La. Designed by Australia-based Incat Crowther, the vessel is the largest of its kind in the United States and was built to meet the burgeoning demand for service in the New York-New Jersey market.
2 min |
December - January2021
Professional Mariner
FIRE/PILOTS/PATROL - Military stokes patrol boat demand; GladdingHearn leads on pilot boats
There were plenty of noteworthy small ships built within the last year in the pilot, patrol and fireboat sector.
10+ min |
Annual American Ship Review 2021
Professional Mariner
New year in a new world: Navigating COVID's maritime realities
In a matter of days, the decorative time balls will drop, “Auld Lang Syne” will fill the air, and ships at anchor will sound their horns as the world welcomes in the new year.
4 min |