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Abstract
This is an enhanced edition of the HBR reprint R0110H, originally published in November 2001. HBR OnPoint articles save you time by enhancing an original Harvard Business Review article with an overview that draws out the main points and an annotated bibliography that points you to related resources. This enables you to scan, absorb, and share the management insights with others. When you think of UPS, what comes to mind? Most likely, you conjure up images of brown delivery vans, but this $30 billion company is much more than a package delivery carrier. Since its founding in 1907, UPS has continually broadened its territory, its offerings, and its mission to better serve a changing marketplace. Today, it employs over 360,000 people and operates in some 200 countries and territories. In this interview, CEO Jim Kelly--who began his UPS career 37 years ago as a driver--talks candidly about the challenges of trying to grow such a huge, mature business. He explains the company''s focus on international expansion, and he discusses how UPS chooses which new business streams to pursue. To move forward, Kelly says, UPS has had to recast its mission: UPS enables global commerce not just by delivering packages but by facilitating the worldwide flow of information and funds as well. His biggest problem, he admits, has been giving UPS employees the confidence to take on all that new territory. He talks about how he helped foster a new self-image as a company of innovators, undaunted by an uncertain world.
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This is an enhanced edition of the HBR reprint R0110H, originally published in November 2001. HBR OnPoint articles save you time by enhancing an original Harvard Business Review article with an overview that draws out the main points and an annotated bibliography that points you to related resources. This enables you to scan, absorb, and share the management insights with others. When you think of UPS, what comes to mind? Most likely, you conjure up images of brown delivery vans, but this $30 billion company is much more than a package delivery carrier. Since its founding in 1907, UPS has continually broadened its territory, its offerings, and its mission to better serve a changing marketplace. Today, it employs over 360,000 people and operates in some 200 countries and territories. In this interview, CEO Jim Kelly--who began his UPS career 37 years ago as a driver--talks candidly about the challenges of trying to grow such a huge, mature business. He explains the company''s focus on international expansion, and he discusses how UPS chooses which new business streams to pursue. To move forward, Kelly says, UPS has had to recast its mission: UPS enables global commerce not just by delivering packages but by facilitating the worldwide flow of information and funds as well. His biggest problem, he admits, has been giving UPS employees the confidence to take on all that new territory. He talks about how he helped foster a new self-image as a company of innovators, undaunted by an uncertain world.