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Industries

UPS’s Missteps Have Made the Company’s Road Ahead Less Certain

CEO Carol Tomé’s plan for prosperity involves more than Amazon deliveries.

Tucked away in an Atlanta suburb amid seemingly endless industrial sprawl sits an unmarked two-story building that people at UPS call the innovation lab. It’s hushed inside one morning in September as nearly two dozen workers await their chief executive officer, Carol Tomé.