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- April 2013 (Revised October 2014)
- Case
SaferTaxi: Connecting Taxis and Passengers in South America
By: Peter Coles and Benjamin Edelman
SaferTaxi, a taxi booking service in South America must develop its mobilization strategy; that is, it must attract enough passengers and drivers to make its service worthwhile for all. Drivers hesitate to pay for SaferTaxi's smartphones and service unless these will... View Details
Keywords: Taxi Booking; Smartphone; Transportation Networks; Network Effects; Laws and Statutes; South America; Argentina; Brazil; Chile
Coles, Peter, and Benjamin Edelman. "SaferTaxi: Connecting Taxis and Passengers in South America." Harvard Business School Case 913-041, April 2013. (Revised October 2014.) (request a courtesy copy.)
- 29 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Uber Is Worth Saving and How To Do It
year, a video of the CEO yelling at an Uber driver went viral. "I want Uber to succeed. It’s too important a concept to let it fail" Strictly in terms of numbers, Uber’s steamroller strategy has paid off. Founded in 2009, Uber upended the worldwide View Details
- October 2016 (Revised March 2017)
- Case
uberPOOL
By: Marco Iansiti, Michael W. Toffel and Amram Migdal
This case describes Uber's uberPOOL service, which let multiple Uber users who were headed in the same direction share a ride and pay substantially lower fares. View Details
Keywords: Uber; uberPOOL; Innovation and Invention; Disruptive Innovation; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Digital Platforms; Transportation; Transportation Networks; Transportation Industry; Transportation Industry; Transportation Industry
Iansiti, Marco, Michael W. Toffel, and Amram Migdal. "uberPOOL." Harvard Business School Case 617-009, October 2016. (Revised March 2017.)
- 22 Aug 2019
- News
Getting There
the notion that the mobile phone revolution might help unlock a chronic problem in Southeast Asia: safe and reliable on-demand transportation. They launched Grab in Malaysia in 2012. In its earliest days, the company offered an app to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
particularly business travelers, will appreciate the efficiency of this scenario. But can “air taxis” really take off in the current economic climate? Will companies economize by placing an even greater value on executives’ time and book... View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Stress Test
what we do,” says Andrew Kelley, III (MBA 2002), the chief commercial officer for BoxLock. He’s spent a lot of time thinking about what it means to do things right in the midst of a pandemic. Atlanta-based BoxLock began as a B2C company... View Details
- 24 Feb 2016
- News
Did William Alden Invent the Car of the Future in the 1960s?
and remarkably prescient.” Now 89, Alden is again in the PRT—personal rapid transit—business: ”After decades away from PRT, he reunited with a group of other transportation experts to build a new system called Airport Personal Transport,... View Details
- 04 Oct 2016
- Blog Post
Why We Recruit: CVS Health
million patients each year, and expanding specialty pharmacy services, the company enables people, businesses and communities to manage health in more affordable and effective ways. CVS Health serves 5 million customers each day through... View Details
Keywords: Health Care
- 25 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 25
Network Methods to Map Product Architecture By: Baldwin, Carliss Y., Alan MacCormack, and John Rusnak Abstract—In this paper, we describe an operational methodology for characterising the architecture of technical systems and demonstrate... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 20 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Changing the Face of Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital at Harlem Capital
which they invested their own personal capital into startups, small business, and real estate. “After two years, we pivoted the syndicate to be venture-only and focused purely on diversity because most of our companies were diverse,”... View Details
- Web
Trade Publications - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School
Poor, 1868-1918). Full text (1868-1880) available as a networked resource Automobile Topics (New York: s.n., 1900-1948). Full text (August – September, 1922) available as a networked resource View Details
- February 2017
- Case
BlaBlaCar: The Road Ahead...
By: Karim R. Lakhani, Arun Sundararajan, Emilie Billaud and Caroline Caltagirone
In 2017, the co-founders of BlaBlaCar—the world’s largest long-distance carpooling company—reflected on the evolution of their venture and the way forward. BlaBlaCar had reached critical mass and size; yet staying still was not going to be enough to be relevant and... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Transformation; Decision Making; Values and Beliefs; Growth and Development Strategy; Digital Platforms; Network Effects; Strategic Planning; Competitive Strategy; Expansion; Internet and the Web; Transportation Networks; Transportation Industry; Transportation Industry; France; Europe
Lakhani, Karim R., Arun Sundararajan, Emilie Billaud, and Caroline Caltagirone. "BlaBlaCar: The Road Ahead..." Harvard Business School Case 617-050, February 2017.
- 31 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Improving Fairness in Flight Delays
arrival rate into a congested airport; in an AFP, the FAA uses the same approach to adjust the amount of traffic flying into congested airspace. These two tools account for approximately 30 percent of all air transportation delays,... View Details
- 07 Jun 2019
- Book
Are You a Digital Manager?
Complex trends in globalization, demographic shifts, and new technologies are raising urgent challenges for managers on an everyday level. Because of the number of companies undergoing digital transformation, managers need to navigate an... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
They Call Him Mr. China
Chinese companies, all eager to tap his network and knowledge to grow their businesses. To foreign companies, he delivers some standard advice. “The first thing we tell them is to find a good Chinese manager,” he says. “It’s got to become... View Details
- 20 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Big Deal: Reflections on the Megamerger of American and US Airways
equivalent of separate route networks and hubs—they created a group focused on the company of the future. A new American Airlines combining US Airways is fortunate to have US Airways CEO Doug Parker at the... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Family Dynamic
As CEO of Indonesia’s Sintesa Group, Shinta Widjaja Kamdani (OPM 31, 2002) is the third generation of her family to lead the highly diversified holding company that began as a rubber plantation in 1919. Kamdani had been at the View Details
- 13 Feb 2020
- Blog Post
Know Your Audience – Recruiting HBS Students for Manufacturing
on-campus networking portion, which allows students and the HBS alumni who represent your company to get to know one another. If the panel date doesn’t work for your team, and you have a location within... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing