SaaS Business Models - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 Mar 2024
Blog Post

ClimateCAP and the Bonus of Climate Educator Collaboration

insight to my role leading the Business and Environment Initiative at HBS. We’re a group labeled as “Educators” at the Summit – center directors, initiative leaders, faculty – who are there not only to learn from our students and the... View Details

10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

IT Links for Boundaryless Companies

in the vacuum?" These are important question to ask, said Upton, amid the emergence of extranets, the fastest growing segment on the 'Net and potentially the most important in terms of transforming business. "We're developing new View Details

Keywords: by Kenneth Liss

May 2017
Supplement

Betfair (B), (C), and (D) Case Slides

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and John Heilbron

Contains slides related to the Betfair B, C, and D cases.
Abstracts:
B) Buoyed by success in the market for gambling contracts, Betfair attempts to enter the market for financial products using its exchange model.
C) Prompted by a takeover bid from... View Details

Keywords: Betfair; Exchange; Betting; Leisure Industry; Betting Markets; Market Design; Digital Platforms; Diversification; Business Model; Laws and Statutes; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Financial Services Industry; Europe

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02 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

Mapping Your Corporate Strategy

model of the Balanced Scorecard, and they link it with the time-based dynamics of strategy in their latest book, Strategy Maps: Converting Intangible Assets into Tangible Outcomes (Harvard Business School... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

February 1999 (Revised June 2000)
Case

Cimetrics Technology (A-1)

By: Lynn S. Paine and Jose Royo

Jim Lee, president of Cimetrics (a young, fast growing, software start-up) is reevaluating his small company's geographically dispersed product development model. To take advantage of talented low-cost labor in Russia, the company has relied on two software engineering... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Applications and Software; Business or Company Management; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Human Resources; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Labor and Management Relations; Product Development; Performance Evaluation; Information Technology Industry; Russia; Canada; United States

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28 Sep 2021
News

Alumni Connections Drive Career Opportunities for Students

Facily is to get people together to place bulk orders directly with producers and manufacturers. We cover a wide category of items including grocery, clothing, and small-ticket electronics.” Westphal was inspired by the business View Details

Keywords: Becca Carnahan

01 Dec 2018
News

Competencies and Credentials

employees.” —Kieron Stopforth (MBA 2019) Managing the Future of Work Project Companies need to move beyond the old models of workforce development and human resources—those days have passed. The project addresses the changing nature of... View Details

01 Mar 2004
News

Drug Imports a Hot Topic at Alumni Health-Care Conference

Conference Coverage on the Working Knowledge website. MBA Program’s Entrepreneurship Activities Cited as National Model The scope and excellence of Harvard Business School’s MBA activities in... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

24 Apr 2014
News

Preserving Patagonia

Warren Adams (MBA 1995) is making conservation a for-profit business with his company, Patagonia Sur, which merges conservation and capitalism seamlessly and symbiotically. Founded in 2007, Patagonia Sur purchases and permanently protects... View Details

01 Dec 1997
News

New Releases

organizations as large as IBM and Texas Instruments could acknowledge the need for new processes. People are interested in this work because it provides models for R&D as well examples of change." Technology Integration is required... View Details

Keywords: Robert Binstock

13 Jun 2017
News

Finding Common Ground

departments—with the goal of improving the health of honey bees in general and especially in production agriculture. Building trust is crucial to the relationships CollaborateUp fosters. Activists fear business executives will take... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

October 2000 (Revised October 2001)
Case

adM@rt(A)

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Carin-Isabel Knoop and David Lane

Describes the complex policy alternatives facing an online Hong Kong grocery company as it tries to apply Webvan-type concepts in the Hong Kong marketplace. Captures the extraordinary process of adaptation the company is going through as it tries to find the right... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Markets; Marketing; Business Strategy; Business Model; Decisions; Problems and Challenges; Retail Industry; Web Services Industry; Hong Kong

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18 Apr 2011
News

Capitalism Meets Conservation

Adams: A market-based solution to conservation. Warren Adams (MBA ’95) is making conservation a profitable business in Patagonia. Adams, who sold his pioneering social networking startup PlanetAll to Amazon for $100 million in stock in... View Details

Keywords: Accommodation; Hospitality; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

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VBHCD Initiative - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

outcomes in order to idenify opportunities for value improvement and develop reimbursement models aligned with high value care delivery. Read more about Value-Based Health Care Delivery Read more about Measuring Costs Action Research The... View Details

13 Jan 2021
News

Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”

1960s—but its most influential product might just be its model of entrepreneurship: disruptive, asset-light and capital-intensive businesses with a scale-at-all-cost mentality and no fear of failure. But now... View Details

09 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation

the draw anymore. By conducting a series of diagnostics, companies in any industry can quickly identify the most promising opportunities. This article shows how to conduct customer, portfolio, and competitor diagnostics to pinpoint the highest-potential opportunities... View Details

Keywords: by Scott D. Anthony, Mark W. Johnson & Matt Eyring

31 Jan 2023
News

Female Founders' Dilemmas; UK Tech Startups

disparity in the start-up ecosystem, Pelluru asked Garg and Saigal what they thought of research by Harvard Business Review that found male and female entrepreneurs get asked different questions by VCs, which affects how much funding they... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

18 Sep 2017
News

Chronicling a Legacy of Alumni Social Impact

social impact is important and deeply satisfying for many alumni. That’s what we’re interested in understanding and sharing, for the benefit of students who are looking for role models as well as for alumni who are eager to make a... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Scientific Research and Development Services; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities

January 2011 (Revised November 2015)
Case

The National Geographic Society (A)

By: David A. Garvin and Carin-Isabel Knoop

In January 2010, John Fahey, president, CEO, and chairman of the board of trustees' executive committee of the Washington, D.C.-based National Geographic Society (NGS), must decide how best to organize the 121-year old mission-driven organization for a world of... View Details