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- 13 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 13
"freemium" business model, which is used by some Internet businesses and smartphone application developers to give users free basic features of a digital product and access to premium functionality for a subscription fee. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
early-stage startup, offers an electronic signature application as a "freemium" product, i.e., users can upgrade from a free basic version to a premium version by paying a subscription fee. Using 9 months of data from 50,000... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
HBS - Financials | From the CFO
relevant issues such as advancing racial equity, teaching in hybrid and virtual environments, and the impact of the pandemic on the future of work. The group's flagship publication, Harvard Business Review (HBR), continued to generate value from its tiered View Details
- 16 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Weighing Digital Tradeoffs in Private Equity
profits, Baik says. At the same time, they often require substantial investments in software, training, and perhaps subscriptions to digital platforms. “Some firms may choose not to invest in these technologies because it’s just too... View Details
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
"authentication" technology that can facilitate a subscription or pay-per-view model. The case traces the early years of Hulu, a joint venture between News Corp. and NBC Universal, that was initially met with strong skepticism... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
MBA 2024 Alumni Transition - Alumni
personal laptop and mobile devices will automatically downgrade and no longer be available. At that point, a notice will pop up offering options to continue using Microsoft Office. Your options will be to purchase a subscription or apply... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Reality to News Biz: Drop Dead
newspapers rush to post so much of their hard-won content when they survived on newsstand and subscription dollars? Did they really think the dog was going to give back that bone? “The quid pro quo of payment for services rendered... View Details
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
setting: TV broadcast station entry into local newspaper markets from 1945 to 1963. We show that after a TV station enters the newspaper market, newspaper firms with more multi-homing consumers had higher subscription prices, circulation,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Nov 2014
- HBS Case
How Restaurants in Lima and Copenhagen Became Best in the World
chunk of money from hotels like Claridge's in London or the Mandarin Oriental in Tokyo that pay a subscription fee up front to have Noma set up shop. Norton: It's interesting to think about what cities he could go to where consumers would... View Details
- 23 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn
acquisition and retention, costs and productivity, firm scope, pricing, growth platforms, etc. Some of the finest examples of business model innovations, whether it is IBM's outsourcing of key elements of the IBM PC or Salesforce.com's offering of software as a View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 30 Jan 2019
- What Do You Think?
Who Will Measure up to These Two Remarkable Leaders?
of the future coming? What do you think? Original Column The decade of the 1980s saw widespread subscription to the notion that there were two “generic competitive strategies” aimed at achieving industrywide success: those that provided... View Details
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RCS Policies - Research Computing Services
is made to keep the signal-to-noise ratio as high as possible. Certain subscriptions (e.g. rcs_grid for using the compute grid and/or project spaces) are required to keep one's account. Storage Persons will only be allowed access to... View Details
- 11 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #2: Sam Steyer, Greenwork
subscription fee (with various tiers) to have access to the platform. The company-program connection provides companies with the advantage of shaping the educational pipeline. In turn, Greenwork approaches trade schools and workforce... View Details
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
resource management, which emphasized job rotation and minimal hierarchy. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/812134-PDF-ENG RentJuice Thomas R.Eisenmann and Liz KindHarvard Business School Case 811-069 RentJuice, founded in mid-2008, provided a View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
most people had the best market data. But not anymore, says Dubrowski. Today, his 22-person firm pays upward of $400,000 a year for subscription data services, the same services that are available to large and small industry participants... View Details
- 10 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017
“particularly on high cost of failure situations where good information on potential service providers is correspondingly of high value.” Angie's List had a paid subscription model as it charged “members” for access to the information... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018
of Microsoft, and the rest of the senior leadership team faced a set of fundamental choices. The firm had opportunities to serve customers in ways that would be associated with higher growth but lower margin. Some of these opportunities involved a shift from perpetual... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
experience, excited theatergoers by experimenting with new venues, and received critical recognition for the breadth and range of the work she staged. Paulus also recognized the changing realities in theater, which included dropping View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities
could charge customers a premium for access to these "pay TV" channels, above the monthly subscription charge for what came to be known as the "basic tier" of broadcast channels. The first forays into pay TV were... View Details
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Disruption: The Art of Framing
their own work processes even as they collaborate. The New York Times Company has had some success here: NYTimes.com is now the leading source of print subscription sales. And the company's print and on-line sales forces have collaborated... View Details
Keywords: by Clark Gilbert & Joseph L. Bower