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  • March 2022 (Revised April 2022)
  • Teaching Note

Spotify's Audio-First Strategy: Leading the Podcasting Market

By: Hong Luo and Carol Lin
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 721-439. Within 15 years, CEO Daniel Ek had led Spotify from an ambitious startup to a multi-billion dollar company that had transformed the music industry. As part of Spotify’s next phase of growth, the platform would invest heavily in... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Divisions; Customer Relationship Management; Revenue; Music Industry
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  • 04 May 2020
  • News

How locked-down adventurers are climbing Mount Everest, and dancing at Kiss concerts, all from the comfort of their couch

  • Article

Transition to Clean Technology

By: Daron Acemoglu, Ufuk Akcigit, Douglas Hanley and William R. Kerr
We develop a microeconomic model of endogenous growth where clean and dirty technologies compete in production and innovation, in the sense that research can be directed to either clean or dirty technologies. If dirty technologies are more advanced to start with, the... View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Entrepreneurship; Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology Industry
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  • 10 Sep 2007
  • Research & Ideas

High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet

professional and professor. Reliable innovation is "a weird concept," Austin admits. "Reliability in business is about things aimed at consistency of outcome. Reliable View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Music
  • August 2018 (Revised October 2020)
  • Case

Tailor Brands: Artificial Intelligence-Driven Branding

By: Jill Avery
Using proprietary artificial intelligence technology, startup Tailor Brands set out to democratize branding by allowing small businesses to create their brand identities by automatically generating logos in just minutes at minimal cost with no branding or design skills... View Details
Keywords: Startup; Services; Artificial Intelligence; Machine Learning; Digital Marketing; Brand Management; Big Data; Internet Marketing; Analytics; Marketing; Marketing Strategy; Brands and Branding; Information Technology; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Business Model; Consumer Behavior; AI and Machine Learning; Analytics and Data Science; Advertising Industry; Service Industry; Technology Industry; United States; North America; Israel
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    Paul Hamilton

    Paul studies the economic complements needed for firms to realize productivity gains from machine learning and artificial intelligence. These complements include data, human capital & skills, organizational processes, and business models. 
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    • 27 Aug 2019
    • News

    New US Trademark Rules Raise Concerns About Immigration Enforcement

    • 15 Jul 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: July 15

      Publications August 2013 Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal Business Model Evaluation: Quantifying Walmart's Sources of Advantage By: Brea-Solís, Humberto, Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, and Emili Grifell-Tatjé... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 26 Apr 2010
    • News

    Pharma's Future Depends on These Three Trends

    • January 2021
    • Case

    mPharma (A)

    By: Rembrand Koning, John D. Macomber, Pippa Tubman Armerding and Wale Lawal
    mPharma pioneered electronic prescriptions in Ghana, and aimed to increase drug affordability and accessibility in Africa, but the company remained unprofitable. Following investor concerns about mPharma's business, CEO Gregory Rockson considered alternative business... View Details
    Keywords: Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Acquisition; Health; Business Model; Health Industry; Technology Industry; Ghana
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    • 2014
    • Working Paper

    The Decoupling Effect of Digital Disruptors

    By: Thales S. Teixeira and Peter Jamieson
    While the Internet's first wave of disruption was marked by the unbundling of digital content, the second wave, decoupling, promises to generate more casualties in an even broader array of industries. Digital start-ups are disrupting traditional businesses by inserting... View Details
    Keywords: Disruptive Innovation; Information Technology
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    • August 2019
    • Case

    Humanistic Capitalism at Brunello Cucinelli

    By: Francesca Gino and Gary Pisano
    This case explores one company’s attempt to experiment with a different underlying model for a capitalist enterprise. Brunello Cucinelli, S.p.A. is a leading manufacturer of luxury fashion apparel. Despite being a publicly traded enterprise with annual revenues... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Culture; Human Resource Practices; Growth; Growth Strategy; Motivation; Values; Fashion; Capitalism; Organizational Culture; Values and Beliefs; Human Resources; Management; Business Model; Policy; Behavior; Growth and Development Strategy; Luxury; Italy
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    • May 1994
    • Background Note

    Managing Market Complexity: A Three-Ring Circus

    By: V. Kasturi Rangan
    Proposes models of organization that address the various product-market environments posed by the product life cycle. Frames these changes along the two dimensions of uncertainty and diversity. Offers three sets of organizational characteristics to reflect the three... View Details
    Keywords: Business Processes; Growth and Development Strategy; Complexity; Organizational Structure; Organizational Culture; Product Marketing; Markets; Product
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    • 11 Jan 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: Jan. 11

    E. Ricart Publication:Harvard Business Review 89 Abstract Most executives believe that competing through business models is critical for success, but few have come to grips... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 18 Apr 2013
    • News

    Boston Bombing Puts Short-Term Losses on Salons to Circus

    • September 2003
    • Case

    Allscripts, Inc.

    By: William A. Sahlman and Laurence E. Katz
    Describes a set of decisions confronting an entrepreneurial team that is considering taking managerial control of Allscripts, a health care venture. The company has gone through nine rounds of external financing and has changed its business model several times. View Details
    Keywords: Business Model; Business or Company Management; Venture Capital; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Health Care and Treatment; Corporate Finance; Health Industry
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    • September 2009 (Revised February 2011)
    • Case

    Intellectual Ventures

    By: Andrei Hagiu, David B. Yoffie and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld
    Intellectual Ventures creates and acquires intellectual property, which it then seeks to monetize through non-exclusive licensing. In early 2009, as an increasing number of companies were trying to position themselves as leading intermediaries in the market for... View Details
    Keywords: Business Model; Innovation and Invention; Intellectual Property; Rights; Service Operations; Research and Development; Technology; Service Industry
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    • 08 Dec 2006
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Industry R&D Survey: Patent Database Link Project

    Keywords: by William R. Kerr & Shihe Fu; Technology
    • November 2012 (Revised July 2014)
    • Supplement

    Andrew Sullivan and Faraway Ltd (B): Sam Cartwright of Mothercare

    By: Frank V. Cespedes and Alex Godden
    The "Andrew Sullivan and Faraway Ltd" case series focuses on entrepreneurial selling, and is based on an older case study, "Deaver Brown and Cross River Inc." (9-394-042). It concerns two entrepreneurs, Andrew Sullivan and Hope Abasi, who have designed an innovative... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Sales; Marketing; Management; Consumer Products Industry; United Kingdom
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    • 22 Feb 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    Lack of Female Scientists Means Fewer Medical Treatments for Women

    scientist.” Missed innovation opportunities Koning, an assistant professor of business administration in the Strategy Unit at HBS, teamed up with John-Paul Ferguson of McGill University and Sampsa Samila of... View Details
    Keywords: by Kristen Senz