Taxi - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 1997
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"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

01 Sep 2011
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The City Solution

it features an extensive public-transport network, a fleet of electric water taxis on its Venice-like canals, high-speed rail to Seoul, and minimal accommodation to automobiles. Macomber in Vietnam: “The core infrastructure of cities —... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Government; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

22 Dec 2015
First Look

December 22, 2015

Uber provides ride services much like a traditional taxi company, but it owns no cars and employs no drivers, and instead matches independent car owners with customers looking for rides. Airbnb provides a lodging service, but owns no... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

26 Sep 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017

company in the world. Co-founder and CEO Travis Kalanick embodied the company, with a hard-charging attitude embedded in the company's workplace culture, which allowed it to successfully take on the entrenched taxi industry. Uber looked... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 May 2018
News

What I Learned from Visiting All 54 African Countries

back on the mainland. And when I would travel around there, I would take buses. Also sometimes, my car needed to be repaired, and I had these moments where I was without a car, and there again, I would take buses. I would hitchhike. And I would take motorcycle View Details

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from here Vive la Madeleine! How vision, perseverance, and many blocks of real Normandy butter created a new model for French manufacturing Complete Table of Contents September 2016 The Taxi Wars of Jakarta How two alumni-founded... View Details

01 Dec 2020
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In Review

about it, but it’s proven to be a great place to raise our family—and so much more. Living in this community allowed us to be closer to its pulse and rhythms. When the taxis pull up with Exec Ed students, we see and hear them. When the... View Details

01 Jun 2006
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India Arrives

fall short, too. India’s struggle with poverty comes into clear view on the taxi ride downtown: Crowded slums with makeshift housing hug the roadway, and entire families settle down for the night on the city’s sidewalks. Also visible are... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

02 Sep 2018
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Havana Rising

homes—things like restaurants and taxi companies. Over the years, though, even those small openings were further restricted or rolled back, the relationship between the government and capitalism remaining antagonistic. But in 2010,... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North

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)

02 Feb 2016
First Look

February 2, 2016

highly efficient, and environmentally friendly service anywhere in the country through a national network of independent waste haulers and recyclers. A player in the sharing economy, Rubicon was developing an on-demand mobile application that did for waste management... View Details