Can Uber's New CEO Dara Khosrowshahi Turn It Around Like He Did Expedia?
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There are five tons of heavy lifting to be done to reenergize and transform Uber — and it all has to be done in one of the brightest business spotlights that there is. Uber has made its selection — let's see how Khosrowshahi begins to handle it.
Will Dara Khosrowshahi, the longtime CEO of Expedia Inc., be the right person at an opportune moment to help get Uber back on track as its new boss?
Many people will argue that Uber probably should have selected a qualified woman — and there are many — to head the company given the sexual harassment issues that came to light recently under now-ousted CEO Travis Kalanick. It didn't, though. It did choose someone who has proven he could help weather a dot-com crash, 9/11, the 2008 economic collapse, and multiple rivals.
Plus, as an immigrant himself, Khosrowshahi has proven multiple times to be a progressive enough individual when it comes to opposing President Trump's anti-immigrant and anti-travel policies, and the Expedia CEO has done much to encourage the advancement of women within Expedia. But we just don't know if he has the skills to
