Business Model - Publications - Faculty & Research

September 2006 (Revised February 2010)
Supplement

Airbus vs. Boeing (D): 2000

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Erich Alexander Voigt and Jordan Mitchell

Keywords: Business Model; Air Transportation Industry

01 Sep 2014
News

Innovation: Revenge of the Nerds

business owners in need of strategic planning and competitive analysis. When the team pitched the HourlyNerd model to classmates at FIELD 3’s simulated stock market, which allows peer “investors” to evaluate... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Jun 2001
News

Teaching for the Ages: the MBA Classroom in the 21st Century

month, the results are nearly disastrous, but the concerns are human and strategic, not just technological: “How do we get people to change? Do we adapt our business process to the technology or the technology to our process?” I find... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

01 Dec 2015
News

Research Brief: What Makes a Mobile Money Service Thrive in an Emerging Market?

Sachdev (MBA 2013) found that the companies that thrived shared five common traits. In a recent working paper, Lal and Sachdev lay out these best practices, which include an open and flexible regulatory structure, business View Details

Keywords: Erin Peterson

02 Aug 2024
HBS Case

How a Mission to Cut Food Waste Launched a Multimillion-Dollar Venture

On a hectic Friday in October 2016, Josh Domingues wondered if he had made a mistake quitting the security of a well-paying job managing contracts for professional hockey players to start a new venture selling nearly expired groceries at discount prices. After all, a... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Technology; Information Technology

01 Dec 2009
News

Faculty Books

Leadership by Anthony J. Mayo, Nitin Nohria, and Mark Rennella (Palgrave Macmillan) This book examines the evolution of leadership through the story of the American airline industry. Early airline entrepreneurs searched for a viable View Details

Keywords: Air Transportation; Transportation

01 Dec 2020
News

The Camel and the Unicorn

what Alex calls the “camel approach”—a sort of counter to the Silicon Valley unicorn model. Lazarow: It is this notion of building sustainability and resilience into the business model from day one. Of... View Details

01 Jun 2024
News

Decoding the Promise and Perils of Generative AI

ChatGPT burst into the public consciousness on November 30, 2022. Within two months, the generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) software, which leverages a large language model (LLM) to produce human-like, text-based conversations,... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Mar 2013
News

FAQ: How is research funded at HBS?

www.hbs.edu/faculty. All research at HBS is funded internally, without the constraints of traditional external grant funding, thanks to alumni support and income from Executive Education and Harvard Business Publishing. This unique... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

April 2001
Teaching Note

PlanetAll TN

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Steven Silverman and William A. Sahlman

Teaching Note for (9-898-105). For book only. View Details

Keywords: Decision Making; Business Model; Web Services Industry

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October 2011 (Revised February 2012)
Case

One Game to Rule Them All: Lord of the Rings Online and the MMO Market

Keywords: Competition; Strategy; Business Model; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Video Game Industry

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March 2011 (Revised March 2014)
Teaching Note

IP Intermediaries & Intellectual Ventures

By: Andrei Hagiu

Teaching Note for 710423 and 711486. View Details

Keywords: Intellectual Property; Business Model; Innovation and Invention; Revenue; Sales

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March 2011 (Revised March 2014)
Teaching Note

Intellectual Ventures

By: Andrei Hagiu

Teaching Note for 710423. View Details

Keywords: Patents; Business Model; Innovation and Invention; Revenue

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November 2014
Teaching Note

Carl Zeiss and Free-Form Production: Can We See Clearly Yet?

By: Willy Shih

Keywords: Free-form; Business Model; Disruption

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25 Jul 2012
News

Movie Magic

swipe of a credit card. “Automated retail sounds better,” suggests Gregg Kaplan (MBA 1997). Recruited by McDonald’s to help start new businesses within the fast-food giant, in 2002 Kaplan oversaw the installation of six kiosks in... View Details

Keywords: vending machines; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; General Merchandise Stores; Retail Trade

01 Dec 2015
News

Case Study: Bionic Banking

new to the firm: A majority of the team are computer programmers and developers, employing sophisticated algorithms to manage more than $275 million in assets. This active model would pit Alpha Architect against big banks, but with an... View Details

01 Sep 2005
News

Ideas: Books

emerging technologies, new business models resulting from broadband deployment, security concerns, regulatory obstacles, and other subjects. In Their Time The Greatest Business... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

October 1998
Case

Conduit Communications

By: William A. Sahlman and Jon Biotti

Keywords: Business Model; Growth and Development Strategy; United Kingdom

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Fall 2020
Article

Competing on Customer Outcomes

By: Marco Bertini and Oded Koenigsberg

Customers ultimately want to pay for meaningful outcomes, not the products and services that presumably deliver them. Today, companies can be increasingly accountable for those outcomes with three kinds of technologically-enhanced revenue models. Adopt one to better... View Details

Keywords: Market Positioning; Revenue Strategy; Customer Satisfaction; Marketing Strategy; Business Model; Value Creation

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