Competing Business Models - Publications - Faculty & Research

22 May 2007
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First Look: May 22, 2007

policy resolution. In so doing, they engender excess burden. This paper posits, calibrates, and simulates a life cycle model with earnings, lifespan, investment return, and future policy uncertainty. It then measures the excess burden... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

05 Mar 2012
Research & Ideas

Is JC Penney’s Makeover the Future of Retailing?

Ron Johnson's latest undertaking has the makings of a perfect business school case study. As the new CEO of J.C. Penney he's charged with transforming an aging department store chain with lagging market share. The sweeping plan begun... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Retail

08 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 8, 2019

case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/119025-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 119-026 Predicting Purchasing Behavior at PriceMart (B) Supplements the (A) case. In this case, Wehunt and Morse are concerned about the logistic regression... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

04 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 4

(fall 2011) An abstract is unavailable at this time. Read the paper: http://sloanreview.mit.edu/the-magazine/2011-fall/53103/should-you-have-a-global-strategy/ How to Hang On to Your High Potentials Authors:Claudio Fernández-Araoz, Boris Groysberg, and Nitin Nohria... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Brandon Tieu

Coming to HBS is like... Arriving at HBS feels like parachuting into leadership camp where every day is a chapter from the best business book, but in an interactive format. The case discussions and conversations with peers allow you to... View Details

26 Jun 2023
Blog Post

ClimateCAP 2023 & ClimateCAP Fellowship

business and policy realms. Climate is a space where you need to lean into policies to shape incentives, which can, in turn, create incentives for new business models and... View Details

30 Oct 2017
Blog Post

How My Engineering and Manufacturing Background Prepared Me for an MBA

I graduated with a degree in Electrical Engineering in 2005 and started working in a chemical manufacturing plant that same year. On my first day on the job, with limited technical competence and organizational awareness, I was assigned... View Details

15 Nov 2016
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November 15, 2016

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/417035-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 417-036 Zurich Insurance: Zurich Oxygen Zurich Insurance was undergoing organizational change after implementing five new people practices focused on... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 May 2022
Blog Post

Nucleate Eco: Connecting Aspiring MBA Entrepreneurs with Cutting Edge Climate Research

each other. More broadly from a climate perspective, I think programs like Nucleate are playing a critical role in accelerating the timeline for impact of new technologies. Though not every company built on a breakthrough technology is going to pan out, the opportunity... View Details

Web

HBS - The year in Review

2021 Annual Report From The Dean Financials PDF Downloads Archive The Year in Review The 2020–21 fiscal year was one of innovation and adaptation. While the pandemic disrupted lives and activities around the world, Harvard Business School... View Details

03 Nov 2023
News

Global Networking Night; Sweden Club Holds Climate Forum

Clubs News Clubs News Global Networking Night 2023 Another successful Global Networking Night (GNN) is in the books, after alumni around the world held nearly 60 separate events on October 25. The annual GNN features alumni gatherings—some in person, some... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

06 Jun 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017

expert-produced knowledge, we compare bias in these two models in the context of contested knowledge, which involves subjective, unverifiable, or controversial information. Using data from Encyclopædia Britannica, authored by experts, and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Feb 2007
Research & Ideas

The Power of the Noncompete Clause

careers and businesses all the time. The power of the noncompete clause has led to a unique Harvard Business School paper with implications for day-to-day behavior, careers, business, and policy. Authored by... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

08 Oct 2019
Blog Post

Balancing Act: Kate Eberle Walker’s Action Plan for C-suite Diversity

business world as an investment-banking associate. She was often the only woman in a meeting—a fact that was frequently commented on by colleagues and clients—and when she looked at the company’s leadership ranks, she saw few women who... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship

03 Jun 2022
Blog Post

HiHome Sweet HiHome

sources, and then coded an algorithm to score it.” Parker and Shu then delivered these results to pilot users. It didn’t take long for this new business model to produce results. “One of our earliest beta... View Details

November 2009 (Revised October 2010)
Case

AME Learning Inc.

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Ann Leamon

Justin Joffe is about to graduate from HBS in Spring 2009. He must decide whether to join his father's company, Toronto-based AME Learning, as president working alongside his father who will be CEO. AME has been in business for 12 years, mostly as a small consulting... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Family Business; Age; Private Equity; Financing and Loans; Growth and Development Strategy; Family and Family Relationships

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October 2023 (Revised April 2024)
Case

TetraScience: Unlocking the Power of Scientific Data

By: Satish Tadikonda and William Marks

After pivoting from a focus on hardware to a focus on scientific data, TetraScience, led by veteran SaaS executive, Patrick Grady and Founder Spin Wang, has embarked on a journey from nearly cash-out to a player in the scientific data management space. This case... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Change Management; Entrepreneurship; Information Management; Business Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Information Technology Industry

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September 2021 (Revised December 2023)
Case

On the Bubble: Startup Bootstrapping

By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang, Tom Quinn and Annelena Lobb

Bubble was a software company in the low-code/no-code market, making tools that allowed users without traditional programming backgrounds or technical skills to build software. The case covers cofounder Joshua Haas’s engineering background, as he experienced a high... View Details

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29 Jan 2021
Op-Ed

How Influencers, Celebrities, and FOMO Can Win Over Vaccine Skeptics

timeline also removes uncertainty and instills confidence in the process. The combination of confidence and convenience can generate momentum and enthusiasm not just for early adopters and the early majority, but for the late majority and laggards as well. The... View Details

Keywords: by Rohit Deshpandé, Ofer Mintz, and Imran S. Currim

Article

The IT Transformation Health Care Needs

By: Nikhil R. Sahni, Robert S. Huckman, Anuraag Chigurupati and David M. Cutler

In recent years, health care organizations have made sizable investments in information technology. They’ve used their IT systems to replace paper records with electronic ones and to improve billing processes, thereby boosting revenue. But so far, IT has been of little... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Information Technology; Performance Improvement; Business Model

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