Detail FedEx Chief Fred Smith on...Everything   Oleh:  Dumaine, Brian Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine Dalam koleksi: Fortune vol. 165 no. 7 (May 2012), page 89-93. Topik: US Economy; FedEx; Chief Executive Officer Ketersediaan Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: FF16.47 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada     Lihat Detail Induk Isi artikel Smith sounds off on China, the U.S. economy, the value of a good name, and why the government shouldn't pay for a liberal arts education. When Fred Smith founded FedEx in 1971, he had just returned from the Vietnam War, where he had served as a Marine platoon leader and then a pilot, and he was casting around for something to do. As legend has it, a paper he had written at Yale -- he doesn't remember the grade but is pretty sure it wasn't a good one -- laid out the idea for a hub-and-spoke system for delivering time-sensitive items like computer parts. He borrowed money from his sisters, leased some jets, and started his service. Today FedEx (No. 70 on the Fortune 500), with headquarters in Memphis, has 255,000 employees, 688 planes, and more than 90,000 vehicles that operate in some 220 countries and regions. Here's the world according to Fred Smith. Opini Anda Klik untuk menuliskan opini Anda tentang koleksi ini! Kembali

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