Uber - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 Sep 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017

2017 Harvard Business Review The Real Reason Uber Is Giving Up in China By: Kirby, William C. Abstract—The article examines the role of the Chinese government in transport firm Uber's decision to sell its China operation to a rival... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

10 Mar 2021
News

Next Normal

Google, Microsoft, Airbnb, American Express, and Uber extending work-from-home policies well into 2021 and beyond, the reality of remote work is here to stay. Touching on issues of trust, productivity, and digital tools for connection and... View Details

01 Sep 2024
News

Next Level

In 2017, Sarah Bond’s boss, Phil Spencer, the head of Xbox Gaming, warned her that working in the industry would be very difficult. Not just for the usual reasons that corporate America can be tough, but also because, as a Black woman in gaming—an industry with a... View Details

Keywords: Maggie Mertens; photos by Cameron Karsten; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

01 Mar 2018
News

Making Sense of the Modern Startup

entrenched player: Amazon vs. Barnes & Noble, Uber vs. the taxi industry, and so on. “Our cases were necessarily snapshots,” he emphasizes, “but we knew we really needed to be in the moving-picture business. Change, change, change. We had... View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)

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Entrepreneurship Outside the Valley - Course Catalog

hailing service in the MENA region, was founded in the UAE in 2012, three years after Uber was started in San Francisco. Similarly, MecadoLibre, an Argentinian-based ecommerce company often called the Amazon of Latin America, was founded... View Details

12 Jul 2020
Book

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020

leadership, and strategy of Uber in Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber. Blake J. Harris covers a classic business battle in Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation; besides being a video game culture and... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

14 Aug 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018

market in the Gulf, Olsson and Sheikha recognize the importance of finding a strong leader to head the Saudi operations. They have their sights on a specific German-Saudi entrepreneur, Abdulla Elyas, but he has so far declined both of their initial proposals to join... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2016
News

Alumni Books of 2016

(PublicAffairs) Breakthrough companies like Amazon and Uber have disrupted the old ways and made the economy work better, thanks to technology. At least, that’s how the story of the modern economy is usually told. But the authors show... View Details

12 Jul 2021
News

Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

government relief efforts. “We realized that independent contractors and small businesses are disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic because they are more likely to be on the front line with jobs like Uber drivers, owning... View Details

06 Dec 2018
News

Source Code

Dubinsky. “They want to work on this, they want to solve this problem.” “A lot of people join a startup just because they want it to be the next Uber or Facebook or whatever. That’s not here,” says Baranski, whose career includes stints... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Daniel Hertzberg

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Print View - Course Catalog

Saudi-based food delivery startup Jahez was founded in September 2016, three and a half years after Doordash was founded in Palo Alto. Careem, a ride hailing service in the MENA region, was founded in the UAE in 2012, three years after View Details

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