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01 Sep 2016
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016

they experience the cultural, sexual, and student revolutions and the music of the age. The Inner Lives of Markets: How People Shape Them—And They Shape Us by Ray Fisman (PhDBE 1998) and Tim Sullivan (PublicAffairs) Breakthrough companies like Amazon and View Details

10 Nov 2015
First Look

November 10, 2015

Business School Case 715-433 Uber and the Taxi Industry (A) No abstract available. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/715433-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 715-434 UberX & Lyft (B) No abstract... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 May 2021
Blog Post

Rebekah Emanuel: Host of Season 3 of the Climate Rising Podcast

thing that entrepreneurs are talented at is thinking carefully about how people live their lives. They think of tweaks that make people's total assumptions change. Take Uber and Lyft. Everyone knew how to hail a taxi the old way, but no... View Details

28 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur

approach to starting a business? Do they think local or are they born global? A: Many start local because India is a huge country. A few years ago I talked to entrepreneurs there and asked them, “Are you simply cutting and pasting the US model of your business to... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Advertising

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

12 Apr 2023
News

Step Change

funds." A few years later, he adds, big acquisitions and IPOs started happening in the MENA region, catalyzing a virtuous cycle of entrepreneurial activity and investment: Amazon acquired Souq for $580 million in 2017 and Uber purchased... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance

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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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 Uber was started in San Francisco. Similarly,... 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

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