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Placement - Doctoral
Strategy, 2022 Placement: Duke University, Fuqua School of Business, Post-Doctoral Fellow (2022-2023); Assistant Professor (2023-) Dissertation: Into the Unknown: Exploring Entrepreneurship and Firm Performance in the Minibus Taxi...
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- 13 Jul 2016
- HBS Case
How Uber, Airbnb, and Etsy Attracted Their First 1,000 Customers
tier naturally followed them. LESSON THREE: SEQUENCING IS EVERYTHING Uber and Airbnb were also smart about how they chose to expand, picking the right cities at the right time to maximize their success. Since Uber’s main competition was View Details
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FAQs - Alumni
rideshare (Lyft, Uber) and taxi drop off and pick up is located at 111 Western Avenue, Boston, MA 02163, directly in front of Klarman Hall (where you check-in for Reunion). Can I use the Shad Fitness Center? On Friday and Saturday, with...
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California - Global
minute walk from Burlingame Caltrain station. The closest BART stop is Millbrae station which is a 10 minute taxi ride to the CRC. New Research on the Region May–June 2024 Article Harvard Business Review What Makes a Successful Celebrity...
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- 31 Mar 2008
- HBS Case
JetBlue’s Valentine’s Day Crisis
airport continued to load flights and allow them to taxi to the runway. But conditions didn't clear as expected, and some passengers waited for as long as six hours to return to an open gate. (Planes continued to land in the poor weather;...
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- 29 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Are You Paying a Tip--or a Bribe?
corruption does exist in the United States, where consumers regularly tip restaurant wait staff, taxi drivers, hairdressers and others, Torfason says. "Richer countries tend to have less corruption than poorer countries," he...
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by Dina Gerdeman
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Winners & Runners-up - New Venture Competition
successful concept from the US/Europe to Latin America. The company provides a smartphone application that allows consumers to book, pay rate taxis with added convenience as well as transparency. SaferTaxi aims to bring greater efficiency...
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The Chao Center: The Heart of HBS Executive Education
as: Directions to places on or off campus, restaurant advice, or finding a taxi Package delivery Maintenance or housekeeping issues, lost keys, or other residence hall issues Laundry and dry cleaning Non-emergency health issues—from...
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- 06 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism - Discovering the Business of Storytelling
Bollywood, winning fans far and wide — from Uzbekistan to Soviet Russia to the United States. The effects were long-lasting and far-reaching. When I lived in Beijing in 2012, a taxi driver sang a Raj Kapoor song to me in Chinese. Russians...
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Past Issues - Alumni
economic prominence—and where it goes 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...
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- 09 Jan 2020
- Book
Rethinking Business Strategy in the Age of AI
control specialists. A lot of people think of this as disruption, like the taxi industry is being disrupted by Uber. It’s not disruption. Rather, it’s a completely different kind of firm. This hasn’t happened in more than 100 years. Firms...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Entrepreneurs Should Go Work for Government
service Uber, which has disrupted the highly regulated and often inefficient taxi industry, and expanded to hundreds of cities worldwide. At the same time, the company has been criticized for "surge pricing" that jacks up rates...
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by Michael Blanding
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Anthony Tan
breakthrough idea came from an HBS classmate, an Indonesian friend who needled Tan about the dreadful state of the taxi business in Malaysia. “He said: `Your great grandfather was a taxi driver, your...
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Ariana Fahrney
the laughter continues. I am in a taxi in Myanmar, sharing a hilarious moment with the driver minutes after meeting. Shortly thereafter, our conversation ranges from the constructs of socialism and democracy to his father's political...
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Clemens Raemy
Entrepreneurship Club, Clemens met Jesus Fernandez. Unbeknownst to either of them, they had worked at Lehman Brothers in London at the same time, but hadn’t crossed paths. Now they are partners in “SaferTaxi,” an innovative startup intended to make View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Ascent of Money
their support and concerns. Your Taxi Is Waiting Will a new category of “very light jets” shake up the business of flying? Three HBS entrepreneurs hope so. A look at the ups and downs of building the air-taxi industry in a turbulent...
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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Faculty Research Online
Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success? Call them next-generation driverless taxis or people movers, the age of personal rapid transport is just around the bend. Could PRT change the face of public transportation in cities and...
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- 24 Feb 2016
- News
Did William Alden Invent the Car of the Future in the 1960s?
Alden envisioned a hybrid system he called the StaRRcar—a “car-like train” with small pods that a passenger could call like a taxi and would ride on rails directly to the desired destination. It was an idea ahead of its time, Adi...
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Emad Nadim
never understood. I hate it when taxi drivers ask me where I’m from. It makes me think of all the places that I have been and all the people I have left behind. Maybe I will miss your wedding or the arrival of your first-born. But I...
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- 18 Nov 2016
- Blog Post
CPD Global Market Update: Singapore
able to use my Lyft app to hail a Grab taxi and Southeast Asians visiting the US can use their Grab app for a Lyft! While internet commerce is still in its early stages across Southeast Asia, it’s expected to surge with increased...
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