Steve is a frequent guest on Sirius XM Radio’s Road Dog Trucking, hosted by Mark Willis. Following is a lightly edited excerpt from his April 1 appearance. Steve Sashihara: Fortuitously, we added electric trucks to our survey this year. The president’s proposed infrastructure plan is very heavy on electric vehicles, and I think trucking will […]
In a webinar with Stifel Managing Director of Research David Ross, Steve presented the results of our annual survey of transportation executives. Following is a lightly edited excerpt. This year, we were pleased to get 126 responses, about half from executives at carriers, 3PLs and brokers. For eight disruptors, we asked “By 2025, will it have […]
Following is a lightly edited excerpt from Steve’s presentation for “New Frontiers of Analytics Practice” at the INFORMS Annual Meeting in November. For his introductory discussion of fuzzy objectives, see the previous post. 1. We start by creating cost functions around tangible economics of outlays and revenues because the pre-AI objective has often been […]
Following is a lightly edited excerpt from Steve’s presentation for “New Frontiers of Analytics Practice” at the INFORMS Annual Meeting in November. Princeton Consultants helps organizations move great insights into AI deployment. Our value proposition is that we deliver high speed and quality, and reduced risk. For the latter, we have developed a series of […]
Steve is a frequent guest on Sirius XM’s Road Dog Trucking Radio, discussing a variety of tech-related topics with host Mark Willis and drivers nationwide. Following is a lightly edited excerpt of his June 30 appearance. Mark: Some of the drivers over the the last few years have said they welcome new technology—bring it on. […]
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to evolve under great levels of uncertainty, manufacturing executives are urgently formulating policies to keep their facilities operating while protecting workers from infection. These policies include macro issues, such as which workers are essential, down to micro policies such as how to best manage shared areas like hallways, break rooms and […]
Princeton Consultants recently conducted its annual survey, begun in 2016, of transportation executives about their views of disruptive technologies and the impact on business areas. CEO Steve Sashihara summarized the results on a conference call with Stifel Managing Director of Research David Ross. Following is a lightly edited excerpt. Half of the respondents are executives […]
On a March 27 conference call with Stifel Capital Markets and transportation executives nationwide, Steve summarized the results of the annual Princeton Consultants survey about tech disruption in freight transportation and logistics. This Freightwaves article summarized the survey and the findings. In the second half of the call (lightly edited excerpts below), Steve explained that in […]
In a critical back-office operation, a broker-dealer firm must segregate a federally regulated amount of cash and securities in specially protected accounts on behalf of its clients to ensure that clients can withdraw the bulk of their holdings on demand, even if the firm becomes insolvent. The firm must calculate what it owes to clients […]
A former colleague recently offered “some controversial and unpopular advice on ultimately succeeding in academia” in University Business, which covers college and university management of enrollment, IT, facilities and academic affairs.In “Why You Should Not Become an Adjunct–Yet,” Dr. Matthew Wright, chair of the Department of Physics at Adelphi University, encourages aspiring professors to leave […]
