SaaS Business Models - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

Radical Change, Entrepreneurial Opportunity

Mary Tripsas, Assistant Professor in the Entrepreneurial Management unit at Harvard Business School, is interested in how radical technological change transforms industries, and how such change affects established firms and creates... View Details

Keywords: by Michael J. Roberts; Technology

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Building Bridges: New Dimensions in Negotiation

MBA course in negotiation as well as advanced dealmaking electives and Executive Education programs), has developed a model with former HBS faculty member David A. Lax called "three-dimensional negotiation." In a course note... View Details

Keywords: by Anita M. Harris

15 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Five Questions for Paul Gompers and Josh Lerner

companies have been financed during previous downturns in the venture capital market. Entrepreneurs should not necessarily abandon all hope. Venture capitalists still have many, many billions to invest, so well crafted business plans can... View Details

Keywords: by Carol Elsen; Financial Services

24 Jul 2013
Op-Ed

Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In

departure of high-impact businesses and high-value taxpayers, disputes over dwindling resources, and disabling levels of obligations to pensioners and other contracts. Unfortunately, Detroit isn't alone. Stockton, California, and... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber, Robert C. Pozen, Eric D. Werker & Benjamin Kennedy; Auto

13 Jun 2017
Research & Ideas

Why Global Investments Are Still a Good Bet

sense to be diversified than it used to in the past, since, at the end of the day, all markets are moving together,” says Luis Viceira, George E. Bates Professor and Senior Associate Dean for International Development at Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

16 Jun 2015
First Look

First Look: June 16, 2015

potential customers, how the company will capture a share of that value, and what types of innovation to pursue. Critics tend to discount "routine" innovation that leverages a company's existing technical capabilities and View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Jun 2010
First Look

First Look: June 15

institutional logics in unprecedented ways) can develop and maintain their hybrid nature in the absence of a "ready-to-wear" model for handling the tensions between the logics they combine. The results of our comparative study... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

14 Feb 2012
First Look

First Look: February 14

its decision regarding the business model (i.e., whether to subsidize buyers or sellers), the access fees, and the size of the platform. A slight increase in the platform's belief advantage may induce the... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

14 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

The High Cost of the Slow COVID Vaccine Rollout

Government officials should have poured much more money into producing and distributing COVID-19 vaccines to save more lives and rescue the economy faster, according to new research co-authored by 16 researchers including Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

03 Oct 2018
What Do You Think?

How Should Managers Deal with the Challenges of Building an Inclusive Workplace?

coaching. Linda Powell described several important elements of an effort to support inclusion this way: “Organizations must have clear policies on harassment, (then) insist on leadership that models appropriate behavior, effective... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

03 Sep 2014
What Do You Think?

Who Should Choose Your Boss?

conclude that business leadership would be wise to push past pride and the false sense of self importance, and include within the decision making process those in the enterprise who know the actual nuts and bolts of the business."... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Food & Beverage

24 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Linking the Globe: The Role of Media and Communications

companies. For years, he said, the media industry has operated in a very fragmented economic structure that gave an individual company "a perverse incentive to defend its territory instead of attacking globally." That is coming to an end for the news View Details

Keywords: by Kenneth Liss; Information; Publishing; Journalism & News; Media & Broadcasting

01 Nov 1999
Research & Ideas

Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational

of doing things" and shape its international organization structure and processes. Business historian Alfred Chandler has traced the influence of the cultural values and social structures on British management practice. For reasons... View Details

Keywords: by Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal

05 Jun 2006
Research & Ideas

Using Competition to Reform Healthcare

physician. A growing number of providers have begun to address several of the imperatives, but few, if any, providers are currently addressing all of them. The shift to a value-based model is self-reinforcing. As more of these imperatives... View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health

21 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

What Happens in Vegas Could Shape the Metaverse

form or another—was inevitable. Wu, the Arjun and Minoo Melwani Family Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, and Clough, an assistant professor at the University of... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Nover; Computer; Information Technology

November 2000 (Revised May 2002)
Case

FleetBoston Financial: Online Banking

By: Frances X. Frei and Hanna Rodriguez-Farrar

As the ninth largest bank holding company in the United States in 2000, FleetBoston Financial Corp. provided a myriad of financial services, including retail banking, loan origination, and brokerage accounts. This case explores how FleetBoston responded to the Internet... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Borrowing and Debt; Cost Management; Banks and Banking; Consumer Behavior; Service Operations; Competition; Online Technology; Banking Industry; United States

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Educators

Purchase

19 Jul 2011
First Look

First Look: July 19

jobs and dignified salaries. As of March 2010, La Fageda has opened up a new production facility to make ice cream in an urban area outside of its well-known agricultural farm. Students are faced with understanding La Fageda's business... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

Who Sways the USDA on GMO Approvals?

Many corporations have gotten good at pulling the levers of government to tilt the odds in their favor, weakening regulations or securing perks, justified or not, to further their business interests. Economists use the term... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage; Biotechnology; Agriculture & Agribusiness

05 Feb 2009
Research & Ideas

In Praise of Marketing

Editor's Note: Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business Online. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge. Many dismiss... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Advertising

24 Oct 2007
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Innovation

Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on ways to improve your business skills. Questions to be answered: Can innovation and creativity be managed? Where do creative ideas come... View Details

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