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  • 15 Aug 2005
  • HBS Case

Classic Cases Live On at HBS

reading in a trade publication about Benihana's innovative and efficient use of labor and layout to lower costs and facilitate customer turnaround times, Professor Earl Sasser produced the Benihana case in 1972 with research associate... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
  • 18 Aug 2011
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs

classmates Alex Stratoudakis and Emma Taylor. In 15 minutes they present their plan for AfterSteps, a Web-based end-of-life planning service that offers advice and secure storage for legal, financial, personal, and funeral documents. For... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education
  • 24 Jul 2007
  • First Look

First Look: July 24, 2007

provide a home movie service that would do a better job satisfying customers than the traditional retail rental model. But as it encouraged challenges it underwent several major strategy shifts, ultimately... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 21

& Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 915-001 Pivots and Incentives at LevelUp LevelUp's mobile payments service lets users scan a smartphone barcode rather than swipe a credit card. Will consumers embrace the service? Will... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2018
  • News

June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

Consumers Make Decisions (and Why Clinicians and Managers Should Care) by Gordon Moore (AMP 79, 1978), John A. Quelch, and Emily Boudreau Oxford University Press The direct-to-consumer business model has transformed how people seek out goods and View Details
  • 17 Jul 2012
  • First Look

First Look: July 17

Interactive Controls: Which, When, and Why? Author:Anette Mikes Abstract Taking a multiple-control perspective, I investigate a control debacle and its aftermath at a financial services company (MultiBank), focusing on an insurance... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Aug 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Supersmart Manufacturing Tools are Lowering Prices on TVs, Bulbs, and Solar Panels

quickly and cheaply than ever before. The reason? Tools are being developed that have more knowledge baked into them, meaning manufacturers don’t have to develop as much custom technology to compete. Sean Silverthorne: Can you explain... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing; Electronics
  • 26 Feb 2019
  • Blog Post

Forget Cash. Here Are Better Ways to Motivate Employees

types of work Cash rewards are best suited as a motivator for work that is measured quantitatively, Whillans says. Many studies of the service and sales industries show that cash rewards lead to increased sales and improved View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 01 Oct 2002
  • News

What's Cookin'

Brooke. “We wanted to get involved in something more entrepreneurial,” he explains. “We saw the restaurant business as a service industry that would be successful based on the organization's productivity, focus, and sense of purpose,... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
  • 16 Aug 2024
  • In Practice

Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?

undergird democracy There are several things businesses can do to strengthen democracy. Here are four of them. Encourage voter participation by providing employees with paid time off to vote, thereby addressing the barrier created by election days falling on weekdays.... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 23 Aug 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Strategy for Small Fish

ventures during the venture capital boom of the late 1990s was selecting areas that had no staying power, such as Web calendars or Web-dispatched limousine services. Over time, it was inevitable that these new niches would merge with existing ones. The View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
  • 06 May 2022
  • Blog Post

Career Advice: Starting a Sustainable Startup

Career Advice: Starting a Sustainable Startup Tell us a little about what you were doing before HBS and what brought you to HBS. I’ve always found myself drawn to working on products and services that can have a positive impact on the... View Details
  • 28 Aug 2007
  • First Look

First Look: August 28, 2007

users or securing their exclusive affiliation--are costly and risky. Describes less costly staged strategies for building two-sided platforms. With the "vendor to two-sided platform" strategy, a firm starts as a vendor selling products or View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Mar 2007
  • First Look

First Look: March 6, 2007

this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707031 Brightcove and the Future of Internet Television Harvard Business School Case 707-457 Brightcove, a technology and services provider to content owners in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 28, 2008

the parts of Africa that have a heavy disease incidence. MTV has developed a DNA of public service announcements that it claims are of central relevance to its high-risk customer base. How core is this to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Mar 2008
  • News

Reimagining China and India

of China and India, not just financial markets and industry structure? Entrepreneurship in India and China is not just about taking companies public. It is also about finding ways around all manner of constraints, many of which originate in social View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services
  • 27 Jun 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27

cash for electronic value and vice versa, forming the backbone of an emerging electronic currency ecosystem that has potential to connect millions of poor and “unbanked" people to the formal financial system. Unfortunately, low service... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Sep 2012
  • First Look

First Look: September 25

that while INRIX's industry-leading technology platform and customized services had set the firm apart, large location-based services companies could more easily enter the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Nov 2010
  • First Look

First Look: November 16, 2010

had suggested—and if so, who should be charged how much and for what? Could YouTube charge users for downloading content, a model it was now beginning to test? Or would it be better for the online video giant to continue to pursue an advertising model, but perhaps... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Feb 2009
  • First Look

First Look: February 24, 2009

distribution services (GDSs)—such as SABRE—to reach travel agents. But GDSs held significant tactical advantages. For example, GDSs had signed long-term exclusive contracts with the corporate customers who... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace