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Post by arfanho7 on Feb 25, 2024 7:12:54 GMT 1
After the successful rollout in that city project creators Chris Osgood Harvard MBA and Nigel Jacob faced the challenge of scaling it to serve other cities in Massachusetts. Along the way they ran smack into state procurement rules that forced them to open the contract to other bidders. As with the IRS and the One Fund sometimes entrepreneurs question the rules and push on barriers to achieve results. A But we must wrestle with the downsides of that too says Weiss. On an individual basis it might seem OK to say this rule doesn t make sense so we won t follow it but at what point does this practice become a problem One company running afoul of the rules is private taxi on demand service Uber which has disrupted the highly regulated and often inefficient taxi industry and expanded to hundreds of cities worldwide. At the same time the Ukraine Mobile Number List company has been criticized for surge pricing that jacks up rates during rush hours as well as its lack of background checks on drivers and alleged evasion of local taxes. The Uber case brings up thorny questions around when pushing legal or policy boundaries becomes a public hazard rather than public benefit. Permission Or Forgiveness We address this in the course in a session I call regulatory permission forgiveness or neither says Weiss. where Uber was allowed to operate. I ask students whether they think we did the right thing. Other aspects of working with government such as requirements for openness and public scrutiny could be seen as opportunities as much as impediments.
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