Transportation Network Company - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 Oct 2020
Blog Post

Changing the Face of Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital at Harlem Capital

which they invested their own personal capital into startups, small business, and real estate. “After two years, we pivoted the syndicate to be venture-only and focused purely on diversity because most of our companies were diverse,”... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital / Private Equity

05 Jun 2017
News

Uber hires HBS’s Frances Frei to fix its management mess

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

Leonard S. Shoen

Foreseeing the demands of post-war relocation by veterans and their families, Shoen focused his efforts on the development of a cheap one-way truck rental unit, U-Haul. Shoen’s original and innovative ideas allowed him to cheaply and rapidly build U-Haul’s distribution... View Details

Keywords: Transportation

21 Feb 2024
Blog Post

Hiring at HBS: How Summer Interns Make an Impact at Bridges Fund Management

offers equal benefits for the student and company. The Bridges Fund Management Recruiting Process A key way Bridges connects with prospective MBA interns is through the Turner MBA Impact Investing Network & Training (MIINT)... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity

25 Jun 2013
First Look

First Look: June 25

Network Methods to Map Product Architecture By: Baldwin, Carliss Y., Alan MacCormack, and John Rusnak Abstract—In this paper, we describe an operational methodology for characterising the architecture of technical systems and demonstrate... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Privatization and the New European Economy

markedly, and in 1998 the company recorded its first profit in forty years. Reutlinger sees Sabena's shift from state to private ownership as part of a major and growing trend in the transportation and other... View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner; Air Transportation; Air Transportation

February 2000 (Revised October 2000)
Case

CarPoint in 1999

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Gillian Morris

Updates events in Microsoft CarPoint through the end of 1999, focusing on CarPoint's strategic alliance with Ford and on competitive developments. View Details

Keywords: History; Business Model; Transportation Networks; Alliances; Emerging Markets; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Auto Industry

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23 Sep 2011
News

Guiding Harley-Davidson

Keywords: motorcycles; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

Fast Answer

Airline industry: overviews & statistics

Australian, and global markets Statista - quick statistics and articles on the topic Additional resource: United States Bureau of Transportation Statistics Federal Aviation Administration Global and European Air View Details

01 Mar 2011
News

Making Their Way

for aggressively growing our U.S.-based manufacturing operations, while incorporating a global mindset and offering our customers a true international capability.” With technology leveling the playing field, CGM can function as a globally View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Rail Transportation; Rail Transportation; Rail Transportation; Rail Transportation; Rail Transportation; Rail Transportation

22 Aug 2019
News

Getting There

the notion that the mobile phone revolution might help unlock a chronic problem in Southeast Asia: safe and reliable on-demand transportation. They launched Grab in Malaysia in 2012. In its earliest days, the company offered an app to... View Details

Keywords: Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation

07 Jun 2019
Book

Are You a Digital Manager?

Complex trends in globalization, demographic shifts, and new technologies are raising urgent challenges for managers on an everyday level. Because of the number of companies undergoing digital transformation, managers need to navigate an... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

17 Apr 2014
News

York Street Partners, Busbud Take Top Honors in Alumni New Venture Competition

regional competition entered the finals, which took place in early April through online crowd voting as well as judging by a panel of business experts. "Pitch videos" and profiles of each team were posted on YouTube to the competition audience to preview. Members of... View Details

Keywords: New Venture Competition; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

February 2017
Case

BlaBlaCar: The Road Ahead...

By: Karim R. Lakhani, Arun Sundararajan, Emilie Billaud and Caroline Caltagirone

In 2017, the co-founders of BlaBlaCar—the world’s largest long-distance carpooling company—reflected on the evolution of their venture and the way forward. BlaBlaCar had reached critical mass and size; yet staying still was not going to be enough to be relevant and... View Details

Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Transformation; Decision Making; Values and Beliefs; Growth and Development Strategy; Digital Platforms; Network Effects; Strategic Planning; Competitive Strategy; Expansion; Internet and the Web; Transportation Networks; Transportation Industry; Transportation Industry; France; Europe

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13 Jan 2021
News

Stress Test

what we do,” says Andrew Kelley, III (MBA 2002), the chief commercial officer for BoxLock. He’s spent a lot of time thinking about what it means to do things right in the midst of a pandemic. Atlanta-based BoxLock began as a B2C company... View Details

01 Jun 2012
News

They Call Him Mr. China

Chinese companies, all eager to tap his network and knowledge to grow their businesses. To foreign companies, he delivers some standard advice. “The first thing we tell them is to find a good Chinese manager,” he says. “It’s got to become... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

28 May 2019
News

In My Humble Opinion: Family Dynamic

As CEO of Indonesia’s Sintesa Group, Shinta Widjaja Kamdani (OPM 31, 2002) is the third generation of her family to lead the highly diversified holding company that began as a rubber plantation in 1919. Kamdani had been at the View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Offices of Other Holding Companies; Offices of Other Holding Companies

01 Sep 2009
News

Read All About It!

(another form of entertainment) and in games and sports. Edison’s electric lamp, brighter and better than gas, oil, or candles, which was supposed to lead men and women to the library, merely lures human moths to Main Street. From Chapter 8 “The View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Sep 2003
News

Hail to the Chief

transportation would have the greatest immediate impact on energy use. This possibility inspired her to launch AltWheels, a two-day alternative transportation festival that took place in July. The event, a... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

24 Feb 2016
News

Did William Alden Invent the Car of the Future in the 1960s?

and remarkably prescient.” Now 89, Alden is again in the PRT—personal rapid transit—business: ”After decades away from PRT, he reunited with a group of other transportation experts to build a new system called Airport Personal Transport,... View Details

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