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CES2025: Tech Breaking Down Barriers
Leveraging humans’ capabilities by using machines was a central theme of CES2025. Some of the machines took the form of electric vehicles. These vehicles were not just cars and included electrified surfboards, drones, and multi-passenger shuttles. Although all of these vehicles might not make it to the mass market, they point to how electric drive…
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The Challenges of Selling at Retail and Competing with Behemoths – Part 4 of a Conversation with Alain Kornhauser
By relying on internally generated cash flow and never receiving outside investment, Dr. Alain Kornhauser explains how he was able to keep a firewall between his interests in ALK Technologies and his teaching at Princeton. From humble beginnings in 1979, ALK grew to approximately 200 people. In January 2013, it was sold to Trimble Navigation.…
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Seizing a New Opportunity and CoPilot – Part 5 of a Conversation with Dr. Alain Kornhauser
It is clear from Dr. Alain Kornhauser’s actions that he lives by the late Everett Christensen’s postulate about learning from, but not living in the past. An example of that is how he and his company, ALK Technologies, created a new market after a behemoth-crushing experience in the retail space. The sliced bread, as Kornhauser…
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Following His Students on the DARPA Challenge Journey – Part 6
Is the teacher really the student? One has to ask that question after listening to Dr. Alain Kornhauser describe his initial skepticism about his students’ desire to compete in the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge. It wasn’t long before the students had convinced this Princeton Professor to be the advisor in their efforts. One outcome of…
