Cambridge Judge Professor Talks Competition in Business
In business, it’s always about being the best. You have to look out for number one. That’s your only priority. As long as you’re beating your competition, you’re set. Well, that’s not exactly true according to Professor Shahzad Ansari, a Professor of Strategy & Innovation at University of Cambridge’s Judge Business School. In a recent news article, he presented a different idea. “You don’t need to blow out someone else’s light to make yours shine,” said Ansari. “Going in too aggressively harms your own reputation and can wreck your business.” Continue reading…
Stanford Alum Talks Uber-Style App for Busy Families
Stanford’s Graduate School of Business recently published an article on its blog in which alumna Joanna McFarland (MBA ’05) offers an overview of HopSkipDrive, an “Uber-style” platform she co-founded with Carolyn Yashari Becher and Janelle McGlothlin to “match parents with drivers who shuttle their kids to and from school and activities.” Since it launched in November 2014 in Los Angeles, Farland’s service has arranged “tens of thousands of rides per month” for “busy families.” And families are busier than ever. Indeed, according to Pew Center research, 60 percent of American children live in families in which all parents work outside of the home.
MIT Sloan Breaks Down Science of Successful Platforms
MIT Sloan recently published an article that presents helpful advice for up-and-coming platform developers to follow the paths paved by Uber and AirBNB, both of which have “created innovative and disruptive business models that have drastically changed how consumers (and now businesses) secure transportation and lodging.”
Robin Chase, MIT Sloan Grad and Visionary of the Sharing Economy
Robin Chase, MIT Sloan Graduate School of Management MBA (1986) and co-founder of Zipcar, is a visionary in the brave new world of the sharing economy and peer-to-peer technology.
It’s easy to take for granted the omnipresence of the sharing economy in our everyday lives. For some millennials, it’s hard to recall that there was ever a time before they could walk outside, wave a gadget to a car windshield, and go on an unexpected road trip.
Robin Chase’s Zipcar gave birth to a phenomenon.
HourlyNerd Expands Sharing Economy To MBA-Land
The Boston Globe recently published an article by Scott Kirsner about HourlyNerd, a revolutionary new platform slated to do for MBA consultancy what Uber has done for drivers, Craigslist for odd jobs, and Yelp for restaurants.
MIT Sloan Surveys Social Implications of Gig Economy
MIT Sloan recently published a blog post about the recent On-Demand Economy conference, which the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy and the Institute for Work and Employment Research hosted last week at the Media Lab. The conference was designed to survey the social implications of the “à la carte” economic model “built on the rental or sharing of assets and labor.”
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