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  • 01 Mar 2004
  • News

Ron Shaich’s Café Society

not reach its full potential unless it had all the financial and human capital our company could muster. I suggested to our board that we sell all our other businesses and “double down” on Panera Bread. It wasn’t a popular decision but... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality
  • 01 Apr 2002
  • News

Back on Course

the fact that those models produced 70 percent of the firm's revenue. "They were practical, but ugly," noted Heese, who expressed distaste for the "fiberglass bathtubs" that are all too common these days. Chris- Craft plans to launch a... View Details
  • May 2009
  • Teaching Note

F-Secure Corporation: Software as a Service (SaaS) in the Security Solutions Market (TN)

By: Lynda M. Applegate, Robert D. Austin, Kalle Lyytinen, Esko Penttinen and Timo Saarinen
Teaching Note for [809099]. View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Applications and Software; Innovation and Invention; Opportunities; Business Growth and Maturation; Service Operations; Problems and Challenges; Web Services Industry; Information Technology Industry
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  • April 2007 (Revised March 2018)
  • Case

M-TRONICS (A)

By: Joseph L. Bower and Lynda M. Applegate
The new CEO of a small manufacturing firm pursues growth through the launch of Entrepreneurial Subsidiaries. While the firm grows revenues from $600 million to over $2 billion in 10 years, problems surface as the subsidiaries are integrated into the established... View Details
Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Business Model; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Integration
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  • 01 Sep 2006
  • News

HBS Students Mentor Kids

Boston. Manville is designed for kids from ages 5 to 15 who struggle in traditional educational settings due to emotional or physical issues. A key element of the school’s approach is the big sister/big brother concept, in which an older mentor, as a role View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training
  • 01 Dec 2018
  • News

Ready, Set, Launch

learning-bydoing approach to build skills required to succeed as an early stage entrepreneur. Topics include problem and solution finding, business model design and validation, marketing and sales, and seed... View Details
  • June 2016
  • Supplement

Duff & Phelps: Scaling an Entrepreneurial Venture (B)

By: Lynda M. Applegate and David Lane
In September 2005, Duff & Phelps closed on a deal to acquire a much larger firm that quadrupled its size to 500 employees. Almost immediately, the company faced challenging integration issues. Gottdiener and Silverman realize that they must now turn away from the... View Details
Keywords: Duff ＆ Phelps; Entrepreneurial Management; Mergers ＆ Acquisitions; Entrepreneurial Financing; Entrepreneurship; Mergers and Acquisitions; Integration; Business Model; Organizational Structure; Management
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  • October 2024
  • Supplement

NOW PT (B)

By: George A Riedel, Allison J. Wigen and Dave Habeeb
Pre-Abstract: Instructors should consider the timing of making videos available to students, as they may reveal key case details.

Abstract: In fall 2021, a team of students from the HBS Impact Investing Fund considered Neurologic Optimal Wellness Physical... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Medical Specialties; Business Model; Investment; Health Industry; United States
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  • 21 Nov 2024
  • News

Mother Nurture

Julia Cole, Tina Keshani, and Sophia Richter (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) When Tina Keshani (MBA 2020), Julia Cole (MBA 2020), and Sophia Richter (MBA 2020) met at Startup Boot Camp in their first year at HBS, they quickly discovered they shared a vision to create a... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 01 Jun 2013
  • News

Faculty Books

decision-making capabilities. The book introduces a model that uses a firm's collective judgment so that the right decisions are made and the entire organization profits. Keeping Up with the Quants: Your Guide to Understanding & Using... View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 01 Jun 2002
  • News

Faculty Debates Lessons from Enron's Collapse

and an espoused belief system that stressed respect, integrity, and communication end up in such a situation? How could an innovative business model that showed so much promise have gone wrong so suddenly?... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Enron; faculty; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 01 Jun 2014
  • News

Liberal Smarts

discipline teaching across all institutes. We are also "incubating" the concept of a Mahindra University, modeled after the US university system, with different schools teaching different disciplines—a school of public health, a View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • April 2017
  • Case

China Hospitals Inc.: The Growth of Private Hospitals in China

By: Kevin Schulman, Xiao Yu and Ariel Hwang
This case examines the privatization of hospitals in China. China Hospitals, Inc. has become the largest for-profit hospital company in China, purchasing government owned hospitals in Tier 2 cities. The case profiles CEO Frank Hu. To build his company, he has to... View Details
Keywords: Privatization; For-Profit Firms; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Model; Health Industry; China
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  • 01 Oct 2000
  • News

Internet Tsunami

service. As for customers, in addition to making purchases, they use Rakuten for online auctions and chats about the site's vendors. According to Business Week (July 7, 2000), Rakuten, founded in 1997, has 3,100 vendors, attracts some 70... View Details
Keywords: Nonstore Retailers; Retail Trade
  • September 2021 (Revised June 2023)
  • Case

Mission edX: Balancing Social Good and Financial Sustainability

By: John J-H Kim, David J. Collis and James Barnett
In March 2021, online education platform edX considers how to achieve financial sustainability without compromising its mission to provide universal access to high-quality education. View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Education; Values and Beliefs; Internet and the Web; Financial Strategy; Mission and Purpose; Education Industry; United States
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  • 30 Oct 2018
  • News

Paths of Victory

Reflecting HBS’s standing as the top school for entrepreneurs (according to the most-recent PitchBook rankings), the annual HBS New Venture Competition has helped Harvard Business School students and alumni launch dozens of new... View Details
Keywords: Alumni New Venture Contest; Support Activities for Transportation; Transportation; Machinery Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Administration of Human Resource Programs; Government
  • 01 Dec 2014
  • News

Ask the Expert: A Fair Share

learn how to support these sorts of shared business models? If you were the CEO of an insurance company, how would you address the conflicts between this model (splitting ownership and usage) and the... View Details
  • March 2011 (Revised March 2013)
  • Supplement

mixi (B)

By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski and Mayuka Yamazaki
Supplements case 709-413. View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Value Creation; Social and Collaborative Networks
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  • 06 Dec 2021
  • News

Vision: Sound Science

not to divide topics into their relevance to another topic. You just don’t know where ideas will lead you.” “You can’t be fixated on one model of success...you have to adapt.” “You can’t be fixated on one View Details
Keywords: Deb Blagg
  • 25 Apr 2014
  • News

To create breakthrough strategies, harness creativity to the scientific method

"Conventional strategic planning is not actually scientific," argues Jan W. Rivkin, the Bruce V. Rauner Professor of Business Administration. "To produce novel strategies, teams need to adopt a step-by-step process in which creative... View Details