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  1. Uber in 2024: From Industry Disruption to Creating Value For All

    Dara Khosrowshahi became the CEO of Uber in August 2017, following internal turbulence and serious headwinds related to the company's governance and reputation. Five short years later, Uber was clearly back on course, building on the success of its technology platform to reach 150 million monthly active platform users—and a market cap of ...

  2. (PDF) Management Analysis of Uber

    PDF | Uber Technologies, Inc. is an American multinational transportation network company (TNC) offering services that include peer-to-peer ridesharing,... | Find, read and cite all the research ...

  3. Uber's Strategy for Global Success

    His research focuses on matters of competition, including pricing, demand, and market structure. Alex, ... Uber responds by taking out an ad campaign, over $3 million, opposing these regulations ...

  4. Profits Uber everything? The gig economy and the morality of category

    Reflecting a broader trend with businesses in the new gig economy, our desk research of publicly available material on Uber also suggests that Uber appears to be striving to claim a new category label that marks the experience of ordering and taking an Uber ride ("hailing a ride") as distinct, and as in effect, in a class of its own.

  5. Introducing the Uber Research Publications Site

    On behalf of Uber, I am excited to announce that we've launched the Uber Research Publications Site, a portal dedicated to sharing our company's diverse contributions with the broader research community. We encourage you to explore the site and learn more about the research we're doing at Uber.

  6. Uber and the labor market

    As noted earlier, Jonathan Hall, Uber's research director, was one of the co-authors. The data are for all UberX/UberPool driver-weeks in the United States from January 2015 to March 2017. The top panel presents these basic data and the bottom panel presents "derived" data—our computations of Uber driver pay concepts and, specifically ...

  7. The Rise of Uber and Regulating the Disruptive Innovator

    Abstract. The ride-hailing company Uber has achieved extremely rapid global expansion by means of. outmanoeuvring governments, regulators and competitors. The rise of the company has been. based ...

  8. Disruptive Change in the Taxi Business: The Case of Uber

    Working Paper 22083. DOI 10.3386/w22083. Issue Date March 2016. In most cities, the taxi industry is highly regulated and utilizes technology developed in the 1940s. Ride sharing services such as Uber and Lyft, which use modern internet-based mobile technology to connect passengers and drivers, have begun to compete with traditional taxis. This ...

  9. Your Uber is arriving now: An analysis of platform location decisions

    In the following section, we review location choice research that considers formal and informal institutions and hypothesize about how institutions affect platform's location decisions. We then present our data and explain our application of a time-to-event model to study Uber's location decisions. ... Uber's marketing officers, for ...

  10. Using Big Data to Estimate Consumer Surplus: The Case of Uber

    Using almost 50 million individual-level observations and a regression discontinuity design, we estimate that in 2015 the UberX service generated about $2.9 billion in consumer surplus in the four U.S. cities included in our analysis. For each dollar spent by consumers, about $1.60 of consumer surplus is generated.

  11. Uber vs. Taxi: A Driver's Eye View

    Uber vs. Taxi: A Driver's Eye View. Ride-hailing drivers pay a proportion of their fares to the ride-hailing platform operator, a commission-based compensation model used by many internet-mediated service providers. To Uber drivers, this commission is known as the Uber fee. By contrast, traditional taxi drivers in most US cities make a fixed ...

  12. Uber Technologies

    The company has recovered despite gross bookings dropping to just above ten billion U.S. dollars in the second quarter of 2020. In the fourth quarter of 2023, Uber generated gross bookings of 37. ...

  13. From Predictive to Generative

    This journey unfolded in three distinct phases: the foundational phase of predictive ML for tabular data from 2016 to 2019, a progressive shift to deep learning between 2019 and 2023, and the recent venture into generative AI starting in 2023. There have been critical lessons learned for building a large-scale, end-to-end ML platform at such a ...

  14. 85 Uber Statistics You Can't Ignore: 2024 Market Share & Data Analysis

    At the end of Q4 2020, Uber recorded an average of 16 million trips on the platform per day. (Uber Investor, 2020) A total of $142 billion was paid to Uber drivers and delivery partners in 2020. (Uber Investor, 2020) As for users, approximately 93 million consumers are active in the Uber platform monthly.

  15. How Uber Makes Money Now

    Source: Uber. A UBS research note claimed autonomous vehicles could lower passenger fares by as much as 80%, but the advantages go beyond lower fares for riders and a higher take of the profits for Uber. With autonomous cars, Uber would be able to use its cars are producing value even when they're empty of passengers. Uber wouldn't have to ...

  16. Uber, Airbnb and consequences of the sharing economy: Research roundup

    2015 selection of research that helps define, understand and analyze the sharing economy, those who participate in it and its economic impact. ... Uber has emerged as a leader in the "sharing economy". Uber is a "ride sharing" service that matches willing drivers with customers looking for rides. However, unlike other open marketplaces ...

  17. Uber (UBER) Surges 6.5%: Is This an Indication of Further Gains?

    Uber (UBER) was a big mover last session on higher-than-average trading volume. ... empirical research shows a strong correlation between trends in earnings estimate revisions and near-term stock ...

  18. A better way to make the recommendations that power platforms

    After working at Uber, she was a senior research engineer at Google DeepMind, a job she held for four years. "I loved my jobs," she says. "You can see the immediate, tangible impact of your ...

  19. Uber

    Uber Taxi. Uber Technologies, Inc. is an American multinational transportation company that provides ride-hailing services, courier services, food delivery, and freight transport. [1] It is headquartered in San Francisco, California, and operates in approximately 70 countries and 10,500 cities worldwide. [1] It is the largest ridesharing company worldwide with over 150 million monthly active ...

  20. Uber drivers earn the equivalent of $9.21 in hourly wages

    In his research, Mishel also provided several estimates of Uber's size relative to the overall economy. Approximately 833,000 people drive for Uber in a year, accounting for 0.56 percent of all employment. But such an estimate ignores that Uber drivers have high turnover, working an average of three months and average only 17 hours per week.

  21. Buy Rating Affirmed: Uber's Strategic AV Expansion and Strong Market

    Bank of America Securities analyst Justin Post maintained a Buy rating on Uber Technologies (UBER - Research Report) today and set a price target of $88.00.. Justin Post has given his Buy rating ...

  22. PDF Disruptive Change in the Taxi Business: The Case of Uber

    At our request, the Uber Research staff kindly provided us with statistics on f and F based on Uber's administrative database for Uber drivers in the five cities for which we were able to collect data on traditional taxi drivers. We focus on UberX drivers because that is the largest and fastest growing category of Uber drivers. 6. Work time H. i

  23. Uber Research Case Study: Mixed Methods, 7 Markets, 100 ...

    Research Design Lessons from Uber's Mixed-Method, 7-Market, 100+ Participant Study. An ambitious longitudinal study informed the global Uber Pro launch. Use the team's learnings to guide your next long-qual research project. In November 2018, Uber launched Uber Pro, a Rewards program aiming to recognize drivers' quality and commitment.

  24. More Americans are using ride-hailing apps

    The share of Americans who use ride-hailing services has increased dramatically. Today, 36% of U.S. adults say they have ever used a ride-hailing service such as Uber or Lyft, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted in fall 2018. By comparison, just 15% of Americans said they had used these services in late 2015, and one-third had ...

  25. Uber files: how World Bank-sponsored research on gender painted the

    The report used driver and passenger data from Uber to examine how women and men use the company's services. It also included original research (surveys and interviews) in six case study ...

  26. Uber Stock: Rideshare Moat Remains Undisputed, Robotaxi Poses Risk

    UBER 5Y Stock Price. Trading View. ... Before investing, please conduct personal in-depth research and utmost due diligence, as there are many risks associated with the trade, including capital ...

  27. PDF An Analysis of The Labor Market for Uber'S Driver-partners National

    NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 November 2016 Jonathan Hall was an employee and shareholder of Uber Technologies before, during, and after the writing of this paper. Krueger acknowledges working as a consultant to Uber in December 2014 and January 2015 when the initial draft of this paper was ...

  28. Consumer Perspectives on Mobility and Delivery

    The research shows that Uber is well-liked and widely used for both entertainment and essentials, and that Uber and Uber Eats help their users feel more efficient and productive. Users have a great deal of affinity toward both Uber and Uber Eats; more than 4 in 5 say they have either very favorable or somewhat favorable opinions of each brand. ...

  29. Air taxis in Dubai: Soon, book trip through app, then catch an Uber and

    Tretola added booking an air taxi will be through a mobile app and Uber will serve as the first-and last-mile solution. Last week, Joby Aviation Inc. applied to become the first certified air taxi ...