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- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Opportunities Realized Through Fellowships
fellowship gives me the freedom to pursue my passion for helping suffering communities.” Cenat’s desire to give back stems from her own experience. Her parents immigrated to the United States from Haiti when she was a child, and her father drove a View Details
Keywords: fellowships
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Price Is Right
complex emotionally, cognitively, and socially for people. I first encountered PWYW at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. Then I discovered that Radiohead had released its In Rainbows album using a PWYW model. Now it’s used by digital media, restaurants, performing... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 02 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t
Teixeira, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School in the Marketing unit. But not anymore. The Second Internet Wave A second wave of Internet disruption threatens not only electronics and telecom businesses, but also industries as diverse as View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 29 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Work 3.0: Redefining Jobs and Companies in the Uber Age
Complicating things further, some of these five allow a range of options—from full control by the firm (vehicles for traditional taxi companies, for example) to minimum requirements by the firm (car age and maintenance for Uber drivers,... View Details
- 06 Nov 2017
- Research Event
Who is Responsible for the Future of Cities?
Company, said that “cities need to operate more like companies,” meaning they need to learn how to effect, manage, and respond to change quickly. He cited as an example the Uber-fueled ride-hailing movement, which took off in spite of and outside of existing View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
taxi drivers," Mukhtar notes. "They are typically an older group, and their occupation by its nature is a sedentary one." The drivers' diet is poor (too many irregular junk food meals consumed on the go), working conditions are stressful... View Details
- 03 Jun 2015
- What Do You Think?
Is the Time Right for Self-Management?
been ripe for self-management and there are always people who will poke up their heads and insist on managing themselves. But it isn't a quick fix." Others cited its long-time application in the London taxi system (Andrew Campbell),... View Details
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Black History Month | Baker Library
opportunities across racial divides. You can download and read a PDF of the entire city profile here. This article examines the entrepreneurial journey of Herbert Bean, a former taxi driver who successfully transitioned into owning and... View Details
- 14 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Water, Electricity, and Transportation: Preparing for the Population Boom
By 2050, the Earth's population will likely exceed 9 billion people, up 30 percent from 6.9 billion today, according to projections from both the US Census Bureau and the United Nations. What's more, the population in the world's cities is expected to increase by 3... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)
It's Climate Week in New York City. The schedule features a UN Climate Summit, a People's Climate March, the Clinton Global Initiative, substantial criticism of the whole endeavor, and plenty of agitated interaction. There is a lot of noise here. How can businesses cut... View Details
- 26 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 26, 2008
included innovative image maps. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=408097 Linear Air: Creating the Air Taxi Industry Harvard Business School Case 808-107 No abstract is available at this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
law faced such bitter dissent from taxi drivers that Samaras thought it might never get off the ground. “Structural changes were very difficult because people had gotten used to playing with the old cards. Nothing was changing,” he says.... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Up from the Ashes
at Harvard, he went to no football games. He had attended one in 1913, during his visit as an exchange professor at Columbia, and that was enough. He rode the subway that rumbles beneath Harvard Square exactly once. Incapable of driving a car, he traveled by View Details
- 04 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009
says HBS professor emeritus Michael Beer. His new book explains what all companies can learn. Q&A. Can Entrepreneurs Drive 'People Movers' to Success? Call them next-generation driverless taxis or people movers, the age of personal... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 27 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 27
year. But suddenly, she hits political roadblocks-the local Democratic mayor, facing a tough reelection and urged by the local taxi association, calls for more regulation of her business. Erin's board urges her to actively back the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 07 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 7
many users but also multiple types of users. For example, it's not enough that many customers want to book taxis by smartphone. Drivers must also be willing to accept smartphone bookings. Harvard Business School professor Ben Edelman has... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
other every day for the last thirty years. Anyway, when I called him in New York, he just was beside himself. When he later learned there would be a reception for me at HBS that day, he wanted to get to Boston as quickly as possible. He couldn't find a View Details
- 19 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Designing Cities for a Sustainable Future
On a June day in Manhattan with temperatures heading into the 90s, a straphanger named Mike is taking his customary subway ride to work. People are grumbling about the heat, but hey, it's summer, it's supposed to be hot, and besides, "Whaddya gonna do?" New Yorkers... View Details
- 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