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Analysis of How Uber Changes the Way World Moves

Executive Summary ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 Analysis of the Uber’s Business Model ----------------------------------------------------------- 3

The Revenue-Generation Model of Uber ------------------------------------------------ 5 Value Propositions -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7 Uber and the Decision-Making Process ----------------------------------------------------------- 8

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Executive Summary Generally functioning in connecting passengers and cab drivers in the shortest amount of time possible, Uber is considered by many to be one of the most groundbreaking innovations of this era where advanced technology is the primary key to serve people in the most efficient way possible. Making a big name in less than a decade, many still question the methodology employed by Uber for it ...

Introduction

Oedipus Rex (c. 430 BC) of Sophocles is the story of the supremacy of the gods who command the fate of men, no matter their station in life. Oedipus, son of King Laios, who was abandoned by his father after having his feet nailed hearing a prophecy that he would die from his son, returns too Thebes to rule in the land which had just lost its King. He had killed an old man while on his way and manages to outwit the Sphinx with her cryptic riddles to enter the Theban walls where he is hailed King and ...

Creative cognition involves the analysis and comprehension of the processes and mental representations within creative thought. Creativity refers to the ability to create original, useful and appropriate work. Creative thinking, however, never follows the same pattern. Psychologists have presented data to the effect that discoveries, inventions, and original ideas originate from insight, others, however, are of the view that discoveries originate from the cumulative application of expertise or prior knowledge (Smith et al., 1997). The two schools of thought have led to a contention among psychologists on whether creativity involves prior knowledge and expertise or simply, insight. The dominant ...

The Determinants of Bank Performance in Kuwait

Abstract The aim of this paper is to determine the measures of banking sector profitability of Kuwait and then see the impact of internal and external determinants on the performance of the banking sector of Kuwait. Several variables are used to measure the performance of banking sector in this study, the impact microeconomic and macroeconomic determinants will be analyzed with relation to Return on Assets (ROA) and Return on Equity (ROE). However, answering the research questions will help in the selection of independent variables. It has been planned qualitative, and quantitative both research analysis techniques will be deployed for ...

Ibsen exposes the life experiences of his main female character Nora to show the way patriarchal societies deprive women their freedom by suppressing their views, treating them like children, and through repressive gender roles. Nora’s life and her relationship with her husband, Torvald, is a typical reflection of the importance of self-determination for women within the marriage institution. It is apparent that when a person’s freedom is limited either by choice or by chance, one is not able to establish a relationship based on equality with a partner or other people within the society. The author provides ...

The twenty-year stay of Nabokov in America, which began May 25, 1940, was associated with a typical emigrant life issues. A graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge taught at Stanford and Cornell University, he taught Russian language and literature, as he himself said, “the sons and daughters of the industrial America” (Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years, 47). Summer leisure time he spent traveling through the vast continent, without ceasing to write, and catch butterflies, which was associated with it work in the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University. No matter how Nabokov insisted during the last 20 years of ...

Strategy is an essential part of any organization. Its types can be differentiated on the basis of their deliberate and emergent methods of implementation (Mintzberg & Waters, 1985, p. 257). Project management may be argued to be inherently included in the strategy development, because strategy includes directing an organization and responding to challenges on the way to strategy implementation (Mintzberg & Waters, 1985, p. 271). Relative emphasis of the strategy is flexible, but these two features are a requirement of sound strategy development (Mintzberg & Waters, 1985, p. 257). The way managers track strategies is significant for ‘strategic control’, which is an ...