SaaS Business Models - Publications - Faculty & Research

03 Jun 2014
News

Disrupting the Gaming Industry with the Same Old Playbook

Keywords: market development; disruptive innovation; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

06 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

The Growth of the Social Enterprise

Social enterprise groups are traditionally organized along one of two lines: The affiliation model favors decentralized control, while the branch model concentrates control at a central headquarters. Most... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

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 Apr 2011
News

My First HBS Class

classroom case discussions, the students were models of decorum and probity. I attended two different classes, a second- and a first-year course. I came completely unprepared to a popular second-year Strategy course called Competing with... View Details

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

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Philipp Schäelli

education. Yes throughout my two years I learned a lot about finance, operations, as well as the global economy but the education goes far beyond that. Through the case method you not only get to learn about more than 500 different companies and a range of industries... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity; Financial Services

23 Feb 2015
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Preserving a Musical Tradition; Inspiring Future Generations

participants, had 10 students, ages 7 to 15, and a long wait list. The students’ enthusiasm wowed de Menil. So did the logistics. Two bachata musicians traveled twice a month from Santa Domingo—125 miles away—to teach, a model that was... View Details

Keywords: April White; Arts, Sports, Language, Driving, and Other Schools; Educational Services

01 Mar 2005
News

Faculty Research Online

who are increasingly willing and able to care for their own conditions. The result: changing models of health-care delivery. The Bias of Wall Street Analysts Historically, stock analysts’ recommendations have been swayed by View Details

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

01 Dec 2001
News

A Close-Up Look at the Men behind the Empire

was in the forefront of this movement, "democratizing" photography with the one-dollar Kodak Brownie camera in 1900. Next I chose Henry Ford, who not only put America on wheels with the Model T, but altered the View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

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Transforming Health Care Delivery

organization model -mental health models -patient referrals -health care delivery systems -scheduling optimization -care coordination View Details

25 Feb 2020
News

The Influence of Geography on Work and Innovation

research and development centers fostered more patents than those who had not crossed borders. Since then, the geography of work and innovation has been the focus of his research. These days, Choudhury, the Lumry Family Associate Professor of View Details

Keywords: April White

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

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Kenny Salas

mind." "I didn't expect to take the leap so soon in my life," Kenny says about Camino Financial. "But I think HBS is a great place to start a company, not just because of the classes you can take, but for the opportunities to interact with other... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services

01 Mar 2017
News

Students Forecast Climate Change’s Impact

this past fall with an open challenge: choose an organization whose operating model will be significantly affected by climate change, and tell us what it should be doing to address it. Students posted responses to the prompt on HBS’s Open... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

17 Dec 2001
Research & Ideas

Enterprising Women

is developing stem cell products to treat cancer, genetic disorders, and immune deficiencies. Keep Business Model Fluid "Know your timing," advised Susan Willet Bird, founder and president of... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

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Public Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog

revenue-generation. We weigh selling to governments or selling around them. We also look at raising capital for these business models and investing in them. Scale. We ask how do private and public leaders... View Details

12 Oct 2011
First Look

First Look: October 12

form of corporate social responsibility (CSR) through a sustainable business model that also generates superior financial performance. Read the paper: http://www.europeanbusinessreview.com/?p=4538 An... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Lauryn Hale

Growing up in Detroit, Lauryn Hale inherited an interest in business from her father, an accountant. That interest was reinforced through her high school participation in LEAD, an innovative University of Michigan program that introduces... View Details

04 Sep 2001
Lessons from the Classroom

Getting Back on Course

change the models that people create in their minds. We are doing that in the way we write cases, the way we present role models, the way we talk more frankly about business in the context of a life rather... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Leadership, Ethics, and Corporate Accountability Course | HBS Online

Highlights Information Asymmetry Development of Antegren Alex's Final Decision Show Hide Details Concepts Course Introduction and Overview of the Reflective Leadership Model The Complexities of Business-Customer Relationships Applying the... View Details

March 2021 (Revised February 2025)
Teaching Note

Afterpay U.S.: The Omnichannel Dilemma

By: Antonio Moreno and Anibha Singh

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 519-086. In 2018, Nick Molnar, the founder of the Australia-based online payment service Afterpay began its expansion to the U.S. market. The service had gained a loyal following in Australia by enabling customers to pay for online... View Details

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