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- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Vision: To Go-Go
brands and 1,200 employees, spread across four countries. Foodology delivers 200,000 orders a month through apps such as Uber Eats and the Latin American unicorn Rappi, and it has fulfilled more than 2 million orders since launch.... View Details
- 16 Jul 2024
- Blog Post
Driving Positive Impact on Community and Climate with Ben Schutzman (MBA 2016)
I had done some shipping and logistics work during my career, and had also liked the tangible aspects of working in a manufacturing facility. In the back of my mind, I was always curious about the physical infrastructure of cities. I had an internship at View Details
- 15 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017
phone-based follow-up. The low rates of hypertension awareness, treatment, and control underscore the ongoing challenge of both hypertension screening and management in India. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53086 June 21, 2017 Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
Economic Jitters Push Pandemic Job Seekers to Big Companies, Not Startups
25 percent larger than those they were searching before COVID-19. Job seekers were also 20 percent more likely to tailor searches to businesses with more than 500 employees, allowing large companies like Google, Facebook, and Uber to... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 18 Jun 2024
- Blog Post
Alumni Career Journey: Ben Schutzman (MBA 2016) - Driving Positive Impact on Community and Climate
climate. I had done some shipping and logistics work during my career, and had also liked the tangible aspects of working in a manufacturing facility. In the back of my mind, I was always curious about the physical infrastructure of cities. I had an internship at View Details
- 22 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 22, 2015
Business School Case 716-405 The On-Demand Economy This note describes the emerging on-demand economy, also referred to as the sharing economy. The note highlights several companies including Uber and Airbnb that exemplify this new mode... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Apr 2019
- HBS Case
How Entrepreneurs Can Turn Lead Into Gold
Entrepreneurs aren’t short on ideas for exciting new products or companies, but they are often short-sighted when it comes to finding ways to fund and build those projects. “There is a huge amount of discussion about how you come up with a new entrepreneurial... View Details
- 25 May 2015
- Blog Post
RapidSOS Wins the HBS New Venture Competition
transformed our lives over the last 50 years, when we need technology most we are trapped using this dated infrastructure. The result is that though applications like Uber allow you to call a car to your precise location – reaching first... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Case Study: Up in the Air
of prequalified engineers on demand, “in the same way that you would hail an Uber ride,” Berendt says. Software houses across Europe will be able to grow their sales pipeline, access new markets, and create economic opportunities locally.... View Details
- 20 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Much Is Freedom Worth? For Gig Workers, a Lot.
Uber and Lyft to classify their drivers as employees, rather than independent contractors, since driving is central to their work. Drivers would get minimum wage, overtime, paid sick leave, and unemployment insurance. The companies said... View Details
- 18 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
How Much is Freedom Worth? For Gig Workers, a Lot.
Uber and Lyft to classify their drivers as employees, rather than independent contractors, since driving is central to their work. Drivers would get minimum wage, overtime, paid sick leave, and unemployment insurance. The companies said... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products
- 27 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
Meet the PRIDE Club
came from a tech background after working in operations and product in Uber and ofo (a bike-sharing tech company) for four years. Alex decided to attend HBS to take a break from the hectic startup life and to explore different industries... View Details
- Profile
Adam Kanner
organization to achieve this. I’m a big believer that consumer experience is 99% of what matters. That’s how Uber initially built a great brand. How do you effectively build the best possible consumer experience and let excited consumers... View Details
- 26 Oct 2017
- News
Can Farming Save the Planet?
total organic product sales in 2015 were $43.3 billion, an increase of 11 percent from the previous year’s record level and far ahead of the overall food market’s growth rate of 3 percent. “We’re a little bit like the Uber of farming, in... View Details
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Marcela Sapone
like we have. How have you addressed the insurance issue? We’ve gone to multiple insurance providers and had to construct a plan that makes sense. But we’re not the only one. Airbnb and Uber have similar liability issues. And I’m really... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Alumni Perspective: The Morning After 9/11
a pioneering program at Uber to help thousands of employees prepare to succeed and lead. Back in 2001, having just completed her third year of teaching at HBS, she wouldn’t answer to “Professor Frei,” encouraging students to use her first... View Details
- 06 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
After Germanwings, More Attention Needed on Employee Mental Health
mental health issues that are entirely manageable, and by making it more costly for them to come forward. "You can imagine a fallout from this tragedy, subjecting everyone from crane operators to Uber drivers to random mental health... View Details
- 09 Sep 2016
- News
MaiTai Global and Kiteboarding
think about what is an Uber or what is an Airbnb, Uber is, sort of, a five-minute email of a car, from one person to another. Airbnb is, sort of, a week long email of a place to stay, from one person to... View Details
- 10 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Managing Sustainable Advantage with Key ESG Cofounders, Anne-Marie Schoonbeek and Heleen van Poecke
felt like an MBA in the US would teach me valuable skills,” she said. “HBS really stood out to me in particular because it has a very strong alumni network, even in Europe.” Her first role outside of finance was a summer internship in operations at View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
Professor Ramana Nanda and his colleague asked: Did the crowd choose to fund the same theater projects that expert judges would have? The answer: yes, and then some. “Our findings highlight the wisdom of crowds,” Nanda says. “Trend number one: Everybody will be an... View Details