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- 24 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni New Venture Competition Finalists Named
healthy snacks for everyone, not just foodies, health nuts or the well-to-do. Everyone. Alumnus: Gordon Liao, MBA 2004 Region: Midwest/Central US ivy maker: Play tech, have fun, fix application. Alumna: Ying Zhang, MBA 2004 Region: Asia-Pacific Panda Plates: A weekly... View Details
- 20 Jan 2015
- News
Patient Medical Records, Pocket-sized
(initial cost $100, with a $75 annual subscription update fee), plugs it into a computer, and enters basic personal information. The patient then completes a form authorizing his doctors to send records to HRC, which converts them into... View Details
- 02 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t
conveniently sends monthly samples to their home; purchase them for the first time through Amazon, where prices are often cheaper; and finally when they know which products they like, they can replenish them direct from cosmetics manufacturers such as Kiehl's, which... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
A Vibrant Brand
When Clinkscales received three thousand subscription cards back - an unheard of response rate in the magazine business - he knew he had found a niche that needed to be covered. By 1988, when Clinkscales entered HBS, Urban Profile was... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
Working Knowledge (www.hbsworkingknowledge.hbs.edu). We are excited that the site not only provides alumni with substantive, faculty-driven content but also serves as a vehicle for career services and networking. In addition, HBS Working Knowledge offers a low-cost... View Details
Keywords: Edmund A. Hajim (MBA '64)
- Profile
Rachel Silverstein
to wear a lot of different hats – when you're lean, it's all hands on deck. I got involved in opening a new market launching a digital app launching a meal plan subscription product wholesale testing many different operational and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Accelerating a Gas-on-demand Startup
often visiting company parking lots; businesses have been one of Yoshi’s best customers, paying the service’s monthly subscription fee as a job perk for their employees. Yoshi’s eliminate-the-gas-station model has also attracted the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Staying the Course
Within a week of launching a 90-day free trial, subscriptions grew by 3600%. In addition, the company accelerated the release of a new product, originally designed for classroom instructors and now geared to administrators. The recently... View Details
- 12 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Hot is the “Hot Spot” Business?
new line of business. (Starbucks partners with hot-spot provider, T-Mobile and Hewlett-Packard to offer users subscription plans that average under $40 per month.) We are moving to a time when broadband will be totally ubiquitous, part of... View Details
- 19 Apr 2017
- Blog Post
7 Ways MBA Students Use Baker Library
during his tenure at HBS. He is now the COO of the firm. Baker recently had a trial of the product, licensed several videos, and now participates in a Harvard-wide subscription to the streaming service. –Andrea 2. When They’re... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Ears to the Ground
to $40,000 a year. That was a high bar. So Clark switched to a subscription model: ShotSpotter would eat the upfront cost, operate the system itself, and charge cities an annual $65,000 per square mile for the service. And critically, it... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
is just one trickle in the profit stream. “You evangelize them into the Apple ecosystem, and they join Apple subscription services like music, games, and news.” Three things were essential to Apple’s success, Serafeim explains. The first... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Meyers
- 24 May 2017
- News
Angie Hicks, MBA 2000
mornings building a list of vendors and afternoons knocking on doors, selling $19 subscriptions for the referral service. Averaging only 1–2 per day, the rejection was painful and Oesterle provided pep talks and Kleenex. At some point he... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- Fast Answer
Government data and information sources for public entrepreneurship
Services (GIS). SimplyAnalytics generates tables and maps for the United States including population, age, race, income, employment, and education. Our subscription also allows access to Experian... View Details
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Supplemental Financial Information - Financial Report 2015
accounting transition. The School adopted a new approach to revenue recognition for Harvard ManageMentor, an online learning tool for leadership skill development, as it shifts from packaged software to a subscription service model.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Giving Amazon the Boot
founder and editor-in-chief of the online magazine The Business of Fashion, understands the pull of Amazon’s wildly popular Prime subscription service and the fact that it’s the go-to site for most products. “If someone has a very high... View Details
- 07 Aug 2019
- News
“The Star of the North”
thought, when he came across a brochure for the service a few years back at a reunion. Here, in the library of his alma mater, was one of the broadest set of subscriptions and databases—and the researchers who know how to use them to best... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 31 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Niche Content in an Ad-Driven World
newspapers that charge subscription fees. "It's likely that the free newspapers will cover popular content in order to attract more eyeballs," Zhu says. How the incumbent papers will respond to their entry is an interesting... View Details
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Digital Archival Resources - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
School. An Analysis of the Possible Effects of Subscription Television on the Business World , 1957 Dirck Barhydt; Robert H. Clement; Robert P. Hauptfuhrer; Dan W. Lufkin; Chester K. Reichert, Jr.; Donald A. Roach; Bruno H.M.B. Roux de... View Details
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Digital Archival Resources - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
School. An Analysis of the Possible Effects of Subscription Television on the Business World , 1957 Dirck Barhydt; Robert H. Clement; Robert P. Hauptfuhrer; Dan W. Lufkin; Chester K. Reichert, Jr.; Donald A. Roach; Bruno H.M.B. Roux de... View Details