SaaS Business Models - Publications - Faculty & Research

17 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 17

Publication:Quantitative Marketing and Economics 7, no. 3 (September 2009): 237-266 Abstract This study presents a signaling model of advertising for horizontally differentiated products. The central ingredients of the View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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2014 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Recruit the “Lean In” Generation Becky Cooper & Kiran Gandhi , Harvard Business School Evolving Models of Intergenerational Feminist Interaction Apr 04 Friday, April 04, 2014 Panel: Bridging the Globe May... View Details

November 2000 (Revised May 2002)
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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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January 2002
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Teledesic

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann, Daniel J. Green and Douglas R Rogers

Management of a satellite-delivered broadband data communications company sets strategy in an uncertain environment, using Michael Porter's scenario planning tools to assess likely outcomes and determine which actions to take. This case draws a distinction between... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Business or Company Management; Infrastructure; Strategic Planning; Risk and Uncertainty; Strategy; Internet; Information Technology Industry

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19 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Funding Innovation: Is Your Firm Doing it Wrong?

common struggle for firms to get innovation investments right, says Josh Lerner, the Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking at Harvard Business School. On one hand, firms large enough to house their own research labs too often... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

19 Aug 2024
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Quantum Leap

computation to machine learning—a phenomenon known as “quantum AI”—would allow artificially intelligent systems to process vast amounts of data at incredible speed, enabling businesses to train their AI View Details

28 Aug 2013
News

Inside Comcast's $30 Billion TV Bet

Keywords: Arts, Entertainment; Broadcasting (except Internet); Information

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

19 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 19

Business School Case 714-413 Tesla Motors In mid-2013, Tesla Motors was riding a wave of success: it had launched its first really mass-produced car-the model S-to rave reviews; had recently raised... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Alexandra Stanek

private business model can provide accessible toilets that are not dependent on a public sanitation system that just doesn’t exist. It was my first experience with a start-up, and it showed me how a private... View Details

Keywords: Consulting

01 Mar 2013
News

Faculty Books

Enterprise Analytics: Optimize Performance, Process, and Decisions through Big Data edited by Thomas Davenport (FT Press) This book, a collection of research papers from the International Institute for Analytics, addresses a wide variety of topics in managing View Details

20 Jun 2016
News

Having an Impact on Development and Poverty Issues

Asha and VSG, he says it was his experience at HBS that gave him the foundation he needed to do that. “At HBS, they talked about different models for development and how we come to use business principles to... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

12 Jan 2015
News

Good Investments

business models to invest in.” In their early days, both Elevar and IGNIA got funding from the Omidyar Network, one of the earliest players in the movement. Matt Bannick, who left his role as president of... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; impact investing; ideas; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

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Leadership, Ethics, and Corporate Accountability Course | HBS Online

Business Customers Featured Exercises Examine gray-area decisions related to customers Apply the reflective leadership model to work through a crisis Differentiate between customers, clients, and... View Details

01 Dec 2011
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Professors Recognized with New Chair Appointments

in 2001 after teaching at the University of Michigan Business School. His research investigates the structured finance market and how investor reliance on rating agencies and unsound pricing models led to... View Details

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Lara Hodgson

and lower their risk. We’re a service business. How has all this progressed? We spent the first 16 to 18 months in product development, filing patents and trademarks, putting the connections in place. Then we put the business View Details

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Sophia Virani

for the homeless. Then she learned about the joint MD/MBA program at Harvard. "It brought my health care and business interests together," Sophia says. "As an investment banker, I had looked at ways to turn View Details

01 Dec 2011
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What Keeps HBS Ahead? You Do!

Their work drives our educational programs, fuels Harvard Business Review, and informs HBS cases used worldwide. Our unique funding model makes this possible. Because research is funded internally, faculty... View Details

Keywords: William A. Sahlman; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

September 2023
Teaching Note

Fighting the Battle of the Bulge—Evaluating Do Good/Do Well Innovations in Morbid Obesity Treatment

By: Regina E. Herzlinger

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 304-009. The case is part of the first module of the Innovating in Health Care course. Its purpose is to demonstrate how to evaluate the “do good” and do well” potential of a health care innovation. View Details