The Fast Company Executive Board is a private, fee-based network of influential leaders, experts, executives, and entrepreneurs who share their insights with our audience. BY Leena Iyar Flagging down ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. The uberization of trucking, or freight consolidation, refers to using app-based technologies to utilize empty truck space — to make the ...

According to Business Insider writer Eugene Kim, that 800-pound gorilla isn’t Uber itself, who as we’ve written have clear intent of moving into freight brokerage themselves. Kim reported from sources ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Nikki Baird is a top global retail innovation and technology advisor. Retail has made some attempts at gig work – which is not ...

The worst aspect of the “Uberization” of our economy may not be the transformation of workers who could once earn a living wage into “independent contractors” who can barely make ends meet (though ...

911 call centers and ambulances must overhaul their pre-hospital communication systems in order to provide patients with similar consumer communication experiences such as apps like Uber and Lyft, ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton recently criticized Uber for not ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover supply chain management, technology, and manufacturing. Image cleanup operations at Uber are no doubt working in overdrive ...

My father-in-law, Boris, has driven a Philly cab for 30 years. He bought three taxi medallions—a sure bet, he thought, to secure retirement. Then Uber came. Then Lyft. Hailing a cab became as easy as ...

Last month, a professor at Pratt Institute posted an enthusiastic note on an all-faculty email forum dreaming of what ‘Uberization’ might do for education. The author posted the following response: I ...