Evolving Business Models - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2022
News

Future Vision

interactions is one of the things that I most love about Harvard Business School. I have found the Dean’s role to involve a lot more interactions with other people, too: alumni and business leaders, fellow... View Details

Keywords: Brian Kenny; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

13 Jun 2011
HBS Case

Mobile Banking for the Unbanked

WIZZIT's founders thought there was a noble and viable business model in bringing banking to the poor, via a mobile banking platform that could be used on even the most primitive cell phone. They succeeded... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking; Communications; Telecommunications

Web

When Ideas Become Reality: Entrepreneurship at HBS - MBA

Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year... View Details

04 Nov 2010
What Do You Think?

Why Do We Chase Stars?

evolved in management by gender bias with skills and talents so alien to their male counterparts that they are uniquely powerful in an information world?" Other questions come to mind. Do we continue to overstate the portability of... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

09 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

What Really Drives Your Strategy?

process at every level happens in ways that are not always intuitive to people who think about strategy as a top-down planning process. For example, customers can capture what gets considered in a formal budgeting meeting because the pricing and margin implications... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

12 Feb 2020
Blog Post

Trying Out New Career Options with SIPs (Short Intensive Programs)

historical – and the ways in which these Africa-specific trends impact the opportunities and challenges in undertaking business and entrepreneurship ventures on the continent today. Drawing upon the active participation of prominent... View Details

08 Jul 2021
Blog Post

Managing Sustainable Advantage with Key ESG Co-Founders, Anne-Marie Schoonbeek and Heleen van Poecke

Anne-Marie Schoonbeek (MBA 2017) and Heleen van Poecke (MBA 2017), grew up in small towns in The Netherlands fifteen minutes apart from one another. Yet in all those years, their paths never crossed. Instead, over 3,000 miles away from home, Harvard View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Technology

29 Apr 2008
First Look

First Look: April 29, 2008

Sony's current keitai initiatives move the company in the right strategic direction? Allows for an in-depth examination of viable business models for established media companies competing in digital markets... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

13 Aug 2021
Research & Ideas

Managers, Here’s How to Bond with New Hires Remotely

performance and career outcomes,” the paper says. Will companies embrace remote work long term? Despite the seismic shift many companies made to remote work during the pandemic, some business leaders remain concerned about adopting the... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

06 Sep 2016
First Look

September 6, 2016

grants. Explores the detailed history and business models of both organizations. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/716468-PDF-ENG Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

2010
Working Paper

Course Materials For: 'Being a Leader and the Effective Exercise of Leadership - An Ontological Model'

By: Werner H. Erhard, Michael C. Jensen, Steve Zaffron and Kari L. Granger

This course is designed to leave students being leaders and exercising leadership effectively as their natural self-expression - rather than attempting to learn the characteristics, styles, and skills of noteworthy leaders, and then trying to remember and apply them... View Details

Keywords: Curriculum and Courses; Leadership Development; Research; Science; Attitudes

Citation

SSRN

27 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Working to Change the Food System

believed I was best positioned to drive innovations in business models and strategies, and bring new, world-changing technologies to market. I came to HBS to get exposure to people from different backgrounds... View Details

29 Aug 2023
News

Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases

have a business model that will get us to profitability. We make money when users buy offsets. So currently the primary service we provide that customers want to pay for is if they want to offset their... View Details

November 1996 (Revised March 1998)
Case

Vallourec's Venture into Metal Injection Molding

By: Clayton M. Christensen

Vallourec, a leading maker of seamless tubing, developed a radically new technology that used steel powders to create the tubes. To ensure a supply source, Vallourec ultimately had to acquire its supplier of metal powder, and then, to build the volume required to... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Business Model; Diversification; Innovation and Management; Manufacturing Industry

Citation

Find at Harvard

05 Sep 2012
First Look

First Look: September 5

Vijayaraghavan Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, no. 9 (September 2012) Abstract An abstract is unavailable at this time. Read the article: http://hbr.org/2012/09/should-you-listen-to-the-customer/ar/1 'I'll Have One of Each': How... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 May 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018

May–June 2018 Harvard Business Review The Surprising Power of Questions By: Brooks, Alison Wood, and Leslie K. John Abstract—Much of an executive’s workday is spent asking others for information—requesting status updates from a team... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

26 Nov 2007
Research & Ideas

Best Practices of Global Innovators

worth using. But today, says Harvard Business School professor Alan MacCormack and his research collaborators, "not invented here" is becoming a badge of honor—and more than that, a source of competitive advantage. To design the 787... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

26 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

7 Leadership Principles for Managing in the Time of Coronavirus

an example, model behaviors that are community friendly and supportive. Compassion is extremely important at this time. We may rise to the occasion if we’re fortunate to have a good team around us, but there are many people in our... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Health

15 Oct 2008
First Look

First Look: October 15, 2008

consumers to not only back teams to win, but also to lay odds for other punters to back. This business model allows punters to cut out the middleman of the bookmaker and leads to a much more efficient... View Details