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- October 29, 2020
- Article
How to Build a Digital Brand That Lasts
By: William Collis and David Collis
What makes a brand durable even as business models, technology and consumer behavior radically change? The key is that durable brands are adaptable brands—even legacy ones. To create durability, apply the MACE framework: 1) Mastery: Give your consumers...
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Collis, William, and David Collis. "How to Build a Digital Brand That Lasts." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (October 29, 2020).
- February 2016 (Revised September 2017)
- Case
Neurotrack and the Alzheimer's Puzzle
By: Richard G. Hamermesh, Liz Kind and Carin-Isabel Knoop
Elli Kaplan founded Neurotrack in 2012 with a breakthrough noninvasive cognitive diagnostics test that will detect Alzheimer's disease in its earliest pre-symptomatic stages. While the company has gained great traction in the three years since it was started, with no...
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Keywords:
Alzheimer's Disease;
Diagnostics;
Healthcare;
Entrepreneurship;
Health Disorders;
Science-Based Business;
Business Model;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
United States
Hamermesh, Richard G., Liz Kind, and Carin-Isabel Knoop. "Neurotrack and the Alzheimer's Puzzle." Harvard Business School Case 816-072, February 2016. (Revised September 2017.)
- February 1999 (Revised August 2004)
- Case
Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA)
Chronicles the background of the founding of the WNBA, its basic business concept, some of the key research information used by the NBA in launching it, and other related information. Students must analyze the "basic business model" involved and compare it to that of...
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Greyser, Stephen A. "Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA)." Harvard Business School Case 599-032, February 1999. (Revised August 2004.)
- 08 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Building an Internship Program at Your Startup: An Interview with Facily’s Diego Dzodan (MBA 1999)
social e-commerce operated there in lower income areas. During that trip, he identified an opportunity to bring a similar model to Latin America and the entrepreneurship seed was planted yet again. It was time to leave the “dream job” and...
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- 04 Oct 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #10: Amanda Li (MBA 2018): Speeding Climate Change Solutions Through Project Finance Efficiencies
slow. She and her company are working to close what they see as a major gap at the intersection of fintech and climate change. “Our investors and Board are now focused on impact,” Amanda said. “They want us to model impact more...
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Generoso P. Pope, Jr.
outlandish stories, Pope is heralded in the publishing world for creating an elaborate and highly profitable distribution network. He successfully courted the large supermarket chains by offering a generous revenue-sharing model - one...
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Publishing & Print Media
- December 2013 (Revised January 2015)
- Case
Barbara Krakow Gallery
By: Jose Alvarez and Nyssa Liebermann
The Barbara Krakow Gallery is a successful contemporary art gallery located in Boston. It utilizes a very rare "no haggle pricing" strategy and extended sales cycle when selling pieces to collectors. Though it remains profitable and very respected, the size and scope...
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Keywords:
Barbara Krakow Gallery;
Art Gallery;
Art Market;
Art World;
Artist;
Auction House;
Primary Art Market;
Secondary Art Market;
Exhibition;
Contemporary Art;
Art Collector;
Art Dealer;
Art Fair;
No Haggle Pricing;
Extended Sales Cycle;
Christie's;
Sotheby's;
Online Art Seller;
Barbara Krakow;
Andrew Witkin;
Catalogue Raisonne;
Arts;
Small Business;
Business Model;
Transition;
Customer Relationship Management;
Fine Arts Industry;
Boston
Alvarez, Jose, and Nyssa Liebermann. "Barbara Krakow Gallery." Harvard Business School Case 514-033, December 2013. (Revised January 2015.)
- 13 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 13
original movie ideas, I present a model that features the writer's private information on the idea's value, different protection levels associated with different development stages, as well as costly buyer participation. The empirical...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 26
Working PapersCompeting Ad Auctions: Multi-homing and Participation Costs Authors:Itai Ashlagi, Benjamin Edelman, and Hoan Soo Lee Abstract We model competing auctions for online advertising, with attention to the participation costs...
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Martha Lagace
John R. Sculley
computer maker, which grew to earn substantial profits and revenues of almost $2.7 billion in 1987. Under Sculley’s leadership, Apple unveiled progressive models of the Macintosh personal computer, allowing the company to regain a...
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Computers & Electronics
Henry Ford II
Motor overtook Chrysler and claimed second place in industry sales. Ford Motor also became an industry innovator, introducing new models such as the Falcon, which sold more than 417,000 units in 1959, an all-time first year record.
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Automotive & Aerospace
- Web
Building Web 3 Businesses - Course Catalog
early Web3 business models proved to be unsustainable. Regulators and policymakers increasingly expressed concerns about investor and consumer protections, fraudulent activities, and overall about financial stability. This course will...
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- January 2009 (Revised June 2009)
- Case
KenCall - Can Nik Nesbitt's Venture Succeed in Kenya?
Nik Nesbitt is preparing a presentation of his Kenyan contact center startup to a group of angel investors visiting for the first time. The task has given him cause for some soul searching: has it been worth it to battle the impoverished infrastructure and...
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Isenberg, Daniel J. "KenCall - Can Nik Nesbitt's Venture Succeed in Kenya?" Harvard Business School Case 809-114, January 2009. (Revised June 2009.)
- January 2003 (Revised April 2003)
- Case
KIPP National, 1999 (A): Designing a School Network
Covers the origin, evolution, and nature of the KIPP Academies, two high-performing public middle schools founded in 1995 by Michael Feinberg and David Levin in Houston and New York. In January 2000, Feinberg and Levin meet with Scott Hamilton, managing director of the...
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Leschly, Stig. "KIPP National, 1999 (A): Designing a School Network." Harvard Business School Case 803-124, January 2003. (Revised April 2003.)
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Passing on knowledge at a new business program in Switzerland
Bob Gebhardt (MBA 1973) is following a long career in international business by helping to launch a business school program in Switzerland modeled after his experience at Harvard Business School. (Published April 2014)
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Bibliography - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections
Introduction Prelude to the Option Pricing Model The Formula The Spread and Adoption of Option Pricing Models The Significance and Consequences of Financial Models Selected...
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- 28 Mar 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sophisticated Investors May Be Harming Fintech Lending Platforms
biggest departure from the traditional banking model, where banks do the legwork on behalf of investors, and investors may have little or no information about loans—and in fact may not know which loans their money is supporting. “The lending View Details
William Durant
Beginning his career as a carriage and wagon manufacturer, Durant made the switch to automobile manufacturing in 1904 by reorganizing a failing Buick Motors. He believed that the key to success in the automobile industry was creating an organization that made a wide...
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Automotive & Aerospace
- July 2015
- Case
Uncharted Play (A)
By: Shikhar Ghosh and Ali Huberlie
The case recounts the process of launching an early stage venture, from idea conception through initial efforts to validate the concept, followed by product launch, and fund raising. It emphasizes the Customer Value Proposition of the business model, and asks – Who is...
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Keywords:
Early Stage;
Female Protagonist;
Value Proposition;
Team Building;
Founders' Agreements;
Start-up;
Entrepreneurship;
Business Model;
Business Startups;
Sports;
United States;
North America;
Nigeria;
Africa
Ghosh, Shikhar, and Ali Huberlie. "Uncharted Play (A)." Harvard Business School Case 816-018, July 2015.
- March 2001 (Revised February 2004)
- Case
International Profit Associates
By: Ashish Nanda, Thomas J. DeLong and Monica Mullick
Describes the work environment, systems, and processes that allow International Profit Associates (IPA) to follow a systematic four-step approach to providing advisory service to small business owners.
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Nanda, Ashish, Thomas J. DeLong, and Monica Mullick. "International Profit Associates." Harvard Business School Case 801-397, March 2001. (Revised February 2004.)