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- 01 Mar 2016
- News
How Do I Get Your Job?
beauty industry? MMB: I think everyday beauty services like Drybar are the next phase. With Uber and Airbnb, the younger generation is really used to services on demand. For us that translates into a concept called X Bar, an on-the-floor... 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
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Tipping Point
invest in the women who make the industry run. Each brightly colored bag of Kahawa 1893 features a prominent QR code that allows purchasers to give to the women behind the beans. “People have been very receptive to the idea,” says Nyamumbo. “Customers tip at... View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
where the ideas emanated from. Around the world, the best entrepreneurs are cross-pollinators. They are taking ideas and adopting them and that's kind of what I call the innovation supply chain. So ride-sharing obviously emanated in the Valley with companies like 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
- 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
- 15 Jan 2020
- News
The Business of Access
services. “We’re working to introduce these technologies to clients in their 60s and 70s. These are people who don’t go to bed with their phones beside them.” Such technology, she says, includes screen readers for smart phones, for example, or the ability to use the... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 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
- 04 May 2018
- News
How to Win the Kentucky Derby
best suits, and all the shoes are shined. And everybody from that point, they get into cars or Ubers or buses or anything else to get them to Churchill Downs. And then you get a chance. The races, they usually start about 11:00 o'clock.... View Details
Keywords: horse racing
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Next Level
trajectory,” Frei says. “The threat is to any company in the industry: If someone else is improving at a faster rate than me, even if I’m better than them today, I won’t be better than them tomorrow.” But as Frei knows firsthand—she has worked with 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
- 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 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
- 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)
- 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