Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

. “Self-driving” or “smart” cars will simply become whatever we call the next generation of transportation technology. But typical of disruptive transformation in other industries, the U.S. legal system is already having trouble keeping up with the pace of developments in transportation.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

These companies allow ordinary motorists to turn their personal cars into a prearranged transportation service. For decades, governments have tried in vain to come up with solutions by adding high-occupancy vehicles (HOV) lanes to roads and spending billions on elaborate public transportation networks.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2014

I also love Uber as a student (and teacher) of disruptive innovation theory, because the challenges the transportation company is encountering as it seeks to expand into new cities helpfully illustrate how to assess an idea’s disruptive potential. Competition Disruptive innovation'

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

Elon Musk, the South Africa-born entrepreneur, recently unveiled his proposals for the Hyperloop , a groundbreaking high-speed transportation system. At the same time, South Africa is currently considering its own transport future and many African countries are much farther behind in transport infrastructure.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2015

Transportation is one of the world’s largest industries. Today, new transportation vendors like Uber, Lyft, Zipcar, and Grabtaxi are changing our relationship with cars. Some of the same factors that have driven the transformation in IT help point the way toward the future of transportation. The first is convenience.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2016

Today the airlines that participate in GALs transport more than two-thirds of all international traffic. Basically, unable to innovate their core offering, airlines have figured out a way to innovate in the way costs are allocated. Of course, Southwest is a lone bright spot in an otherwise stagnant industry.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

It relies on the computing power we already have to transport users to a digital world that is stored in the computing devices we already own. VR might very well become a major platform for consuming content, but until we all decide to plug into the Matrix, the disruption of VR can’t be equated to the disruption of mobile computing.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

. “Technology is advancing at an unprecedented pace and this milestone allows federal regulations and the use of our national airspace to evolve to safely accommodate innovation,” Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said in a press release that accompanied the announcement. Information & technology Innovation'

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

While they can start to tap into the global reserves of shale oil, which exist literally everywhere, developing the reserves in most places from China to Argentina will require a significant investment to develop the shale ecosystem and supply chains needed, in addition to the infrastructure to gather, treat, transport, and store the crude oil.

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LDRLB

JANUARY 13, 2014

If you use traditional benchmarking, look at how other cities that you would build, a big, new transportation line or build a new, big park and that should just make everybody happy. The city council wanted to figure out how could they improve their city, get people more engaged with their city. It can work.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Business law Regulation Disruptive innovation Growth strategy Transportation'

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2015

He didn’t have reliable transportation, and he was uncomfortable sitting in a waiting room on HIV day, because doing so would publicly announce his health status. Disruptive innovation Information & technology Health Healthcare' Neither was compelling enough for him to seek treatment.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

The costly and complex operations of transporting energy have made utilities natural monopolies, while regulatory barriers and the high fixed costs of building and maintaining regional electrical grid infrastructure have also kept much competition at bay. This story of disruption should feel familiar.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

This insight resonates with our work on disruption across industries: disruptive innovations create new systems or “value networks” that eventually displace the old ones. Embracing a larger, more encompassing self-definition powers systems-level ambitions.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

When Uber and Airbnb burst on the scene, they were tackling major inefficiencies in the markets for transportation and housing. Uber was not only giving you an excellent on-demand transportation experience, but it was also deploying drivers who would be otherwise sitting idle in their black cars waiting for pre-arranged pickups.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2018

In the volatility state, industries experience high levels of disruption and are susceptible to even more disruption in the short term. In transportation, for example, on-demand options have roiled the market, and traditional taxis are fighting back, belatedly, with apps such as Arro and Way2Ride.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

While Uber, the global leader in on-demand transportation, relies on thousands of independent drivers, Uber’s business platform enables the transition to self-driving cars, one of the company’s stated strategic priorities. It’s uncontestable that Uber has transformed personal transportation.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Providing access to such goods is often a consequence of competitive business activity and disruptive innovation, which starts with someone creating a simpler, more affordable version of a product.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

The problem with the effort, of course, was that building both the necessary African infrastructure and the logistics network needed to transport the non-indigenous crops was going to be a very expensive proposition indeed. He had developed an extensive plan, and had the promise of grant money behind him.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2016

Add to that the likelihood of similar transformation in mass transit (Tesla is planning an autonomous bus) and goods transportation (there is a planned autonomous semi), and you can see that Tesla needs to keep its options open.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

The positive impact of ride-sharing has been cited in Uber’s lobbying efforts in many markets, and in some cities official representatives of MADD have publicly supported ride-sharing companies during municipal hearings, helping to convince local governments to reform transportation regulations. Consumer clubs.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2011

Levitt analyzed the fall of the railroads, and notes that the railroads "assumed themselves to be in the railroad business rather than in the transportation business. Maybe it's a good time to dredge up a chestnut from Ted Levitt's classic HBR article, "Marketing Myopia." they were product-oriented instead of customer-oriented."

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2011

The Korea Air Limo buses provide very pleasant, convenient, and affordable transport between the airport and any hotel. , which is kind of weird since I don't think the local population attaches any significance to Christmas beyond shopping (though that doesn't make it much different from other countries).

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Airlines Hotels Travel Chemicals 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

Disruption from electric vehicles is coming, but it won’t announce itself with high-profile product launches or flashy products. Instead, it’ll drive retirees (slowly) to and from bingo, provide cheap transport to thousands of people in emerging markets, and unceremoniously deliver packages to Londoners and New Yorkers.

Marketing 8

Marketing Transportation Licensing Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

The Super Cub became a smash hit by opening up the motorbike experience to young buyers who had no interest in the black leather jacket and gang persona, but who just wanted inexpensive, convenient, individual transportation for short trips around town.

Strategy 15

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2022

Are flying taxis coming to a city near you soon?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

Wherever disruptive innovations have captured mind-or marketshare, regulators — not users and consumers — quickly become the customer most worthy of woo. As a rule, innovators are interested in creative destruction; regulators are not. As a rule, innovators are interested in creative destruction; regulators are not.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2015

But despite the prominence of today’s driving culture, disruption has planted its roots firmly in the transportation industry. Innovations in ride-sharing, car-sharing, and long-distance transportation are bringing us closer than ever to a world in which car ownership is a choice—not a requirement.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2016

Last September some of the world’s foremost technology industry leaders met in Seattle with Xi Jinping, president of China. In a group photograph, 30 CEOs with a combined market capitalization of $2.5 trillion smiled for the camera alongside the Chinese leader.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2016

Consider the following examples: In the late 1800s, gasoline-powered vehicles promised to revolutionize transportation, allowing people to travel further, faster and more safely. Horses had been the primary transportation method for thousands of years. But getting people to adopt early cars required a huge mind shift.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

These regional production centers would reduce transportation costs and currency risks, while developing closer ties to their customers. When combined in a conglomerate, however, the businesses could have enough scope to make overseas printer farms practical.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2012

One of the prime drivers of economic growth inside America over the past century has been disruptive innovation ; yet the phenomenon that Lessig describes is increasingly being used by large incumbent firms as a mechanism to stave off the process. Accommodation and Transport. Most folks in the US would be familiar with Netflix.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

George Mason University’s Adam Thierer, reviewing a resurgence of books about the “existential threat” of disruptive innovation, has detailed what he calls a “techno-panic template” in how we react to disruptive innovations that don’t fit into familiar categories.

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