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- September 2020 (Revised February 2023)
- Teaching Note
Uber: Competing Globally
By: Alexander J. MacKay
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 720-404. View Details
Keywords: Business Ventures; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Geography; Geographic Location; Geographic Scope; Global Strategy; Globalization; Multinational Firms and Management; Globalized Markets and Industries; Governance; Governance Controls; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Innovation and Invention; Disruptive Innovation; Innovation Strategy; Law; Management; Growth and Development; Growth Management; Markets; Demand and Consumers; Consumer Behavior; Network Effects; Emerging Markets; Market Design; Market Entry and Exit; Market Participation; Supply and Industry; Industry Structures; Planning; Strategic Planning; Relationships; Business and Community Relations; Business and Government Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Labor and Management Relations; Networks; Adaptation; Strategy; Business Strategy; Competition; Competitive Advantage; Competitive Strategy; Expansion; Information Technology; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Digital Platforms; Transportation Networks; Transportation; Transportation Industry; Technology Industry; Africa; Ghana; Asia; China; Shanghai; Shanghai Shi; India; New Delhi; Europe; United Kingdom; London; England; Latin America; North and Central America; United States; New York (city, NY); New York (state, US); South America; Colombia
- 02 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 3, 2008
the initiative based on their analysis. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=809029 Nephila: Innovation in Catastrophe Risk Insurance Harvard Business School Case 206-130 At the cross-section of capital... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 25
in the country's economy during the past two decades, have brought together a group of economists and political scientists to systematically examine the impact of a wide range of factors affecting the economy's collapse, from the cost of labor regulation and the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 1, 2008
their attendant risk. The case then describes the pain inflicted by raising foreclosures, as well as the financial market ramifications of the rise in mortgage delinquencies. It also chronicles the response of the U.S. and European... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
savings. In the area of prevention, the spread of ever-cheaper mobile smart phones enables citizens in remote rural areas to receive online medical consultations, treatment suggestions, and prescriptions. Readings on diagnostic machines in clinics can be taken by... View Details
- 25 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 25
are not compartmentalized; rather a loss in one currency may impact trading in another. We also show that while the impact of a loss on subsequent trading decisions does linger, the affect declines sharply after a losing position is closed. The Impact of Web 2.0 on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Oct 2014
- Op-Ed
Ebola’s Call To Arms About Disaster Preparedness
and biosecurity community has been banging the drum about for years: the US has massively underinvested in public health. As in so many other areas of the nation's infrastructure, the elements of our health care system have eroded, and we... View Details
- 16 Aug 2024
- In Practice
Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?
partisan politics and hot-button issues. Instead, such statements remind people that community matters—and that civility and constructive engagement are both possible and expected. Set rules of engagement and hold people accountable.... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 06 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago
immigrants might increase labor market competition for native-born workers, lowering their wages and their employment prospects. Cultural. Immigration is associated with the influx of people with different traditions, races, religions,... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Tabellini
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
surveys at one office of the firm. They discovered four keys to building a help-friendly organization that leaders of other organizations could learn and apply to similar effect. Publisher's link: http://hbr.org/2014/01/ideos-culture-of-helping/ar/1 January 2014... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 18
point, management was aiming to raise $15 million to get closer to manufacturing prototypes, but had they sufficiently proved out both the manufacturing feasibility and the market demand? How could they address the next hurdles in terms... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 05 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 5, 2006
limit their equity exposures in politically risky countries by sharing ownership with local partners and by serving foreign markets with exports rather than local production. The residual political risk borne by parent companies leads... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Incentives and Operational Excellence
important reason, but by no means the only one, he added. Others include communication problems, a lack of hierarchy for resolving issues—think of Ford and Firestone, and the finger-pointing on both sides—and the potential for data... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 30 May 2019
- What Do You Think?
Is There a Distinctive West Coast Style of Management?
contingent on value-added communities [built around ideas] are self-defining, just about everything is decentralized ideas compete on an equal footing.” Again, not all of his case examples were drawn from the West Coast. But many of them... View Details
- 31 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 31, 2018
integrating global market and local technical knowledge. We refer to this type of firm as a Knowledge Integrator and discuss how its strategy supports the competitiveness of localized suppliers. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Software Platforms Revolutionize Business
relevant management skills are: Knowing the community and being able to identify and attract the third-party producers who can build the most valuable innovations. Knowing how to manage the ecosystem: Deciding the right balance between... View Details
- 20 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 20, 2018
consequentially experienced higher asset growth and increased market share during the crisis. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54253 November 8, 2018 NEJM Catalyst Transitioning Payment Models:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Jun 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Transparency Revolution in Corporate Reporting
Not long ago, only 30 companies around the world reported data about their social and sustainability (that is, nonfinancial) endeavors. Today, more than 7,000 organizations do so. While that transparency is undoubtedly a good thing, the View Details
Keywords: Re: George Serafeim
- 02 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
Networked Incubators: Hothouses of the New Economy
Web platform for the company's business-to-business Web communications services. They wanted to move quickly to outsource the project, but first they desperately needed critical advice on the architecture of the platform. Fortunately,... View Details
- 27 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Researchers Cheat (Just a Little)
strongly rewarded for a positive result," says John, now an assistant professor of marketing at Harvard Business School. This system can drive researchers to bend the rules to get a desirable outcome. Sometimes researchers commit... View Details