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The performance of the luxury performance car segment closely mirrored trends in the broader luxury goods sector, and both were buoyed by rising global wealth and demand for high-end products in the first quarter of the twenty-first century. During the global recession of 2008-2009, however, demand ...

Notwithstanding numerous prior false starts and stops with EVs, Ford committed to investing in this area from 2016 through 2020,. with the goal of increasing EVs’ share of its global production to 50% by 2030.

While serving in the Army, one as a Black Hawk helicopter pilot encountered deficiencies in standard-issue gear. Drawing on his engineering background and interest in 3D printing, he experimented with small-scale solutions.

Active Surfaces, an MIT start-up that developed low-cost, ultra-lightweight, flexible solar panels designed to be applied to practically any surface, serves as the setting for a simple bookkeeping exercise that has students utilize the balance sheet equation to record a series of business transactio...

Throughout 2017 and into 2018, Tesla was burning through cash as the company sought to ramp up production of its Model 3 all-electric vehicle (EV). Investors were questioning whether Tesla would need to raise additional capital. While the company had been successful in the past at issuing both equit...

In a span of 11 months, FTX. a crypto exchange co-founded by Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), went from being valued at $32 billion in January 2022 to filing for bankruptcy, wiping out billions in investor money by November. Those called in to clean up the mess soon discovered that up to $9 billion in custo...

The 2007-09 Great Recession took a huge bite out of the U.S. restaurant industry as consumers ate out less often. Even during the subsequent economic recovery, ongoing financial concerns continued to depress the appetite for eating out. The casual dining sector, situated in the middle ground between...

Auswide, an Australian bank with a strong community focus, serves as the setting for a simple bookkeeping exercise that has students utilize the balance sheet equation to record a series of business transactions. Students are also asked to prepare an updated balance sheet as well as calculate net in...

The Project Management Simulation is a realistic, interactive system dynamics “management flight simulator” in which participants play the role of project managers for a complex project.