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FedEx CEO Smith discusses changing business landscape

Staff Reporter
Published Wednesday, December 6, 2006

Globalization and the Internet have revolutionized the operations of the FedEx Corporation, CEO and founder Fred Smith ’66 told an audience of around 100 students, faculty and others at the Yale School of Management on Tuesday.

The third and final speaker for this year’s SOM Leaders Forum, Smith identified four key trends that he said are fostering “momentum” in both domestic and international FedEx business. The post-World War II manufacturing shift to high-end luxury goods, rapidly integrating world markets and the emergence of Internet-based commerce have altered the world’s...

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