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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)
- 28 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur
approach to starting a business? Do they think local or are they born global? A: Many start local because India is a huge country. A few years ago I talked to entrepreneurs there and asked them, “Are you simply cutting and pasting the US model of your business to...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
really see what that job is like, beyond what I can learn from an info session or an informational interview.” At the same time, what we saw happening back in 2015 was the emergence of the gig economy—not the Ubers or the DoorDashes, but...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
ride-sharing company, an Uber or a Lyft, if you will, I’m certain in the next couple of years, you’ll just be able to hold up your smartphone, and the outside of the vehicle approaching you will highlight some color, so that if you’re at...
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- 12 Jul 2020
- Book
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020
leadership, and strategy of Uber in Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber. Blake J. Harris covers a classic business battle in Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation; besides being a video game culture and...
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- 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...
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Podcast - Forum for Growth & Innovation
Uber really is a way in which kind of hacking that notion of how do I actually get somebody to come pick me up at the airport even though I don't wanna get a taxi? Bob: [06:32] It's that kind of thing. To me, it's like looking, where are...
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- 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...
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Podcast - Forum for Growth & Innovation
So, to me, the struggling moment is that seed, and if I can find where people struggle and when they struggle, we can actually figure out where and when and how and who and the five whys behind all those things. Bob Moesta: You start to realize View Details
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
students, he was a driver for Uber. He was a gig worker doing what he could do to earn income for him and his family. And he came through Resilient Coders, and now he’s a developer at Uber and is the president of their ERG and working to...
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Podcast - Forum for Growth & Innovation
sharing and the power that has driven the growth of ride sharing companies such as Lyft and Uber is not the market of taking share away from taxi and limousines, which by the way was the analysis that all investors made at the outset....
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Podcast - Forum for Growth & Innovation
that vehicle, they've got the best charging network out there today. So they have a much more integrated system around that vehicle. Clifford Maxwell: Where does the shared economy start to fit into this? And you look at Uber and the...
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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...
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- 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...
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America on the Move - U.S. Competitiveness
meaning of driver's licenses). Parking apps abound; connected cars are the new wave. Zipcar and Uber use technology for car-sharing and ride-sharing. A young Boston entrepreneur, borrowing a page from Google's (controversial) private bus...
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