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- 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...
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Carmen Nobel
- 07 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 7
many users but also multiple types of users. For example, it's not enough that many customers want to book taxis by smartphone. Drivers must also be willing to accept smartphone bookings. Harvard Business School professor Ben Edelman has...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
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...
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- 19 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Designing Cities for a Sustainable Future
On a June day in Manhattan with temperatures heading into the 90s, a straphanger named Mike is taking his customary subway ride to work. People are grumbling about the heat, but hey, it's summer, it's supposed to be hot, and besides, "Whaddya gonna do?" New Yorkers...
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- 24 May 2021
- Blog Post
Rebekah Emanuel: Host of Season 3 of the Climate Rising Podcast
thing that entrepreneurs are talented at is thinking carefully about how people live their lives. They think of tweaks that make people's total assumptions change. Take Uber and Lyft. Everyone knew how to hail a taxi the old way, but no...
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- 01 Mar 2014
- News
My HBS Eureka Moment
Early Goals Ralph Dyer (MBA 1965) WHEN I WAS ABOUT 8 OR 10 YEARS OLD, my mother and I were in a taxi riding west on Storrow Drive. The cab driver was a talkative fellow who enjoyed pointing out important places, such as MIT and then...
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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
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 —...
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- 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...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 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...
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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
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
night and day, / towers rise as if to say / Pollution can be beautiful.” Bach’s final fugue informs all of nature. Villon is admonished by an aging courtesan. Aristotle finds “Demagogues are the insects of politics. / Like water beetles they stay afloat / on surface...
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Podcast - Forum for Growth & Innovation
you to Singapore, where you all set up shop and then to India. You mentioned to me the other day, a conversation that you recall that you and Clay had, he was folding himself into a small Indian taxi in Mumbai and you and he talked about...
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- 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...
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Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
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...
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Julia Hanna
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
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,...
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Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
function at Shopify.Silas: Yeah, great. So the TL;DR [too long; didn’t read] of my story is, I’m a concrete-jungle kid. I grew up in New York City. My mom was an administrative assistant, and my dad was the first version of an Uber entrepreneur—he rode a gypsy View Details
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America on the Move - U.S. Competitiveness
in Singapore because we have access to transportation networks and data. For example, by having accessing to a dataset of 26,000 Singaporean taxis, we were able to improve efficiency and reduce the number of taxis on the road by 30%....
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