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  • April 2013
  • Article

Business Model Innovation and Competitive Imitation: The Case of Sponsor-Based Business Models

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Feng Zhu
This paper provides the first formal model of business model innovation. Our analysis focuses on sponsor-based business model innovations where a firm monetizes its product through sponsors rather than setting prices to its customer base. We analyze strategic... View Details
Keywords: Business Model Innovation; Imitation; Sponsor-based Business Model; Strategic Revelation; Strategic Concealment; Business Model; Innovation and Invention; Price; Competitive Strategy; Adoption; Value; Duopoly and Oligopoly; Product; Customers; Market Entry and Exit; Monopoly
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  • 05 Dec 2018
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Salary Taboo: Privacy Norms and the Diffusion of Information

Keywords: by Zoë B. Cullen and Ricardo Perez-Truglia
  • 2011
  • Working Paper

Business Model Innovation and Competitive Imitation: The Case of Sponsor-Based Business Models

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Feng Zhu
We study sponsor-based business model innovations where a firm monetizes its product through sponsors rather than setting prices to its customer base. We analyze strategic interactions between an innovative entrant and an incumbent where the incumbent may imitate the... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Innovation and Invention; Market Entry and Exit; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Value
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    Business Model Innovation and Competitive Imitation: The Case of Sponsor-Based Business Models

    This paper provides the first formal model of business model innovation. Our analysis focuses on sponsor-based business model innovations where a firm monetizes its product through sponsors rather than setting prices to its customer base. We analyze strategic... View Details
    • 14 Jun 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Four Steps to Building the Psychological Safety That High-Performing Teams Need

    lockdown. When workers stayed silent due to feeling unsafe or undervalued, disaster struck: Consider the spectacular implosion of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s administration after it came to light that people were concealing the... View Details
    Keywords: by Kara Baskin
    • 06 Dec 2016
    • First Look

    December 6, 2016

    internal processes that create sustained advantage. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51860 Assortment Rotation and the Value of Concealment By: Ferreira, Kris Johnson, and Joel Goh Abstract—Assortment... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 26 Mar 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    Learning from Failed Political Leadership

    of Illusion: American Leadership in the Media Age. The book weaves together insights from economics, leadership studies, history, geopolitics, and national security to make a case for strategic independence and improved leadership... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • 05 Aug 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: August 5, 2008

    rebalancing in the financial portfolio of participants. These patterns conceal strong household-level evidence of active rebalancing, which on average offsets about one half of idiosyncratic passive variations in the risky asset share.... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 12 Mar 2021
    • News

    My Favorite Case

    expressed extremely negative views about people in her community, she wonders whether the company is the right place for her. Should she meet with the CEO to share her experience, or continue to conceal her sexual orientation while... View Details
    Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
    • Web

    Harvard Business School

    later, HBR asked Jones to assess the progress of Black managers at corporations in the United States. In 1986, he wrote the HBR article, “Black Managers, The Dream Deferred.” From New York Telephone he moved to AT&T, where he oversaw nationwide View Details
    • 30 Jan 2018
    • First Look

    January 30, 2018

    digital activities that impact physical realities. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53823 Assortment Rotation and the Value of Concealment By: Ferreira, Kris Johnson, and Joel Goh Abstract—Assortment... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 22 Nov 2016
    • First Look

    November 22, 2016

    the Foxwoods story. The true story is one of strategic negotiation and the leveraging of tribal sovereignty into economic opportunity. Using a close analysis of the Foxwoods-Connecticut negotiations as a point of departure, this chapter... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 18 Sep 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

    under-provision of innovation. Firms have clear incentives to engage in strategic behavior because policymakers use market outcomes as a benchmark in designing regulation. This study examines a unique energy efficiency standard for... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 15 Oct 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    Rethinking E-Leadership

    Two years ago, talking about how the Internet changed absolutely everything was the height of fashion. Today it's hard to conceal a smirk when someone mentions a term like e-leadership. Although it's fine to enjoy a good chuckle at the... View Details
    Keywords: by Melissa Raffoni
    • 27 Jul 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: July 27

    possibility of competitive imitation means an entrant needs to strategically choose whether to reveal its innovation by competing through the new business model or conceal it by adopting a traditional,... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 28 Jun 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: June 28

    recounts Dropbox's history from conception through mid-2010, when founder/CEO Drew Houston must make strategic decisions about new product features, how to target enterprise customers, and whether to pursue distribution deals with... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 15 Nov 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: November 15

    an entrant needs to strategically choose whether to reveal its innovation by competing through the new business model or conceal it by adopting a traditional business model. We also show that the value of... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 04 Jan 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: January 4

    minorities. Read the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/mnorton/apfelbaum%20norton%20sommers.pdf Leveraging Tribal Sovereignty for Economic Opportunity: A Strategic Negotiations Perspective Authors:Gavin Clarkson and James K. Sebenius... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 17 Dec 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: December 17

    expropriated American investments, but in almost every case the U.S. government's employment of economic sanctions or covert action obtained market value or more in compensation-despite the growing strategic risks. The advent of... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 18 Mar 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: March 18

    survey data, however, suffers from two main limitations: First, it reveals little about individuals' actual registration or donation behavior. Second, past studies' reliance on average survey measures may have concealed variation within... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne