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- 13 Oct 2015
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October 13, 2015
to the customer over time. Customer relationships become continuous and open-ended, service becomes more efficient and proactive, and new business models are enabled. The rich data on location and environment that products provide take...
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- 10 May 2016
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May 10, 2016
Umit G. Gurun, and Scott Duke Kominers Abstract—We develop a theoretical model of, and provide the first large-sample evidence on, the behavior and impact of non-practicing entities (NPEs) in the intellectual property space. Our View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 18 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 18
state-sanctioned intellectual property (IP) rights are ineffective or costly to enforce, modularity can be used to hide information and thus protect IP. We investigate the impact of modularity on IP protection by formally modeling the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax
flat part of the flat tax concept is in fact what has been attractive or whether the flat aspect has been a political way to sell the overall tax reform, and hence mostly low taxes. Q: Can Slovakia serve as a model for other countries...
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Gimme Shelter
job but can’t make ends meet? —Rick Holliday (MBA 1963) OAKES: Yes, their needs are quite different. For individuals with mental illness or disabilities or who have experienced homelessness, we have learned that just providing an affordable place to live isn’t enough....
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Collective Wisdom
software communities have shown that we can have a highly distributed model involving contributors from all over the world. Some people said this would never work. But open source often creates products that are better than those...
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Pricing Strategy: Monetizing and Growing the Business - Course Catalog
The course is also relevant for students who anticipate starting their own enterprise or seek a career as external consultants or investors, whereby the revenue or monetization model decision is critical for new venture success....
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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Case Study: Alumni Advice for a Health Care Startup
businesses are switching their benefit packages to establish a selection of coverage and benefits. The model of every person contributing to the cost of a benefit that few need is diminishing. I favor direct-to-C-suite sales as a...
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- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Innovative Loan Fund Yields Big Returns
Through its use of Harvard’s innovative Green Campus Loan Fund, HBS has cut energy expenditures and provided a model for conservation-minded schools around the University to follow. The loan fund provides capital for projects that reduce...
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- 03 Nov 2015
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November 3, 2015
November 2015 Quarterly Journal of Economics Behavioral Hazard in Health Insurance By: Baicker, Katherine, Sendhil Mullainathan, and Joshua Schwartzstein Abstract—A fundamental implication of standard moral hazard models is overuse of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 18
processes for sorting and recycling waste materials that are still employed today. Yet it proved difficult to combine making profits and achieving social value in accordance with the "shared value" model of today. As providers...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Fast Casual
Cherng: Panda’s process designer. Peggy Cherng (OPM 25, 1997) and her husband, Andrew, share the titles of cochairman and co-CEO of Panda Restaurant Group (PRG), “one of the fastest-growing and most successful restaurant chains in the U.S.,” according to Bloomberg...
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FAQs - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
also value in applying TDABC to low-volume care conditions. Since TDABC facilitates comparisons of costs with outcomes managers will be better able to make decisions about whether to expand or limit resources allocated to those low-volume conditions. Financial View Details
- 17 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 17, 2009
Hipotecario's management and shareholders need to come up with a plan that will satisfy creditors and keep the bank's business model intact. Purchase this case:...
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Martha Lagace
- March 2010 (Revised April 2013)
- Case
Equitas Microfinance: The Fastest-Growing MFI on the Planet
By: V.G. Narayanan and V. Kasturi Rangan
Founded as a for-profit microfinance company, Equitas had acquired nearly a million clients in the short two years since it was founded. The founder, Vasu, and his management team wished to accelerate the already impressive spurt to three million clients in the next...
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For-Profit Firms;
Microfinance;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Social Enterprise;
Financial Services Industry;
India
Narayanan, V.G., and V. Kasturi Rangan. "Equitas Microfinance: The Fastest-Growing MFI on the Planet." Harvard Business School Case 510-104, March 2010. (Revised April 2013.)
- February 2000 (Revised December 2000)
- Case
Staples.com
By: Thomas R. Eisenmann, Joanna M. Jacobson and Gillian Morris
Staples.com, the online unit of the U.S. office supplies retailing chain Staples, faces a range of strategic and organizational issues as it accelerates its growth. Should it pursue only existing Staples customers or consumers who do not shop in Staples stores? How...
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Supply Chain;
Business Units;
Business Model;
Growth and Development;
Internet and the Web;
Entrepreneurship;
Business Strategy;
Service Industry;
United States
Eisenmann, Thomas R., Joanna M. Jacobson, and Gillian Morris. "Staples.com." Harvard Business School Case 800-305, February 2000. (Revised December 2000.)
- Portrait Project
Tamara Lynn Nall
"Faster than a speeding bullet... able to jump buildings in a single bound... it's a bird, it's a plane, NO!... it's Superwoman!!!" I want to be a role model to show the world that a woman can do everything... I want to: Record...
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- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Faculty Research Online
who are increasingly willing and able to care for their own conditions. The result: changing models of health-care delivery. The Bias of Wall Street Analysts Historically, stock analysts’ recommendations have been swayed by business...
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The Competition - A Concrete Symbol: The Building of Harvard Business School 1908-1927 – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
Architect, March 11, 1921. When the idea for the new campus was first conceived, Dean Wallace B. Donham asked Boston architect Harold Kellogg to create blueprints and models of proposed HBS buildings for review by the School’s Visiting...
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2021 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
leaders’ public statements repudiating these bills, a charge led by Black business leaders; increased violence against Asian Americans, particularly older women, but also increased visibility for a minority that has long remained invisible under the guise of the View Details