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04 Dec 2012
First Look

First Look: December 4

applications available on it. Our model is based on the observation that even if users prefer application variety, applications often also exhibit direct network effects. When there are direct network effects, users prefer to consume the... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

22 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

Advertising: It’s Not ‘Mad Men’ Anymore

one has long been the burning question for clients and their agencies," says Alvin J. Silk, the Lincoln Filene Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, at Harvard Business School. "Hence the famous... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Advertising

01 Dec 2000
News

Latin America's Decade

clear that the business models that succeed in the Internet sector and e-commerce in emerging markets such as Latin America will resemble those in the United States," says Kennedy. Despite this lag time, the... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons and Julia Hanna; Latin America; research; infrastructure; Hospitality; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Jun 2000
News

Flexibility Is Key to Product Development in Internet Time

When the number of Internet-based businesses took off in the mid-1990s, many long-standing rules for product innovation were blown away. Previous models of development based on a sequential process of... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

21 Dec 2009
Research & Ideas

Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer

we learn from the private equity model? When it comes to megabanks, I'm in favor of a smaller board with deep financial expertise, substantial time commitments, and a different pay structure. We can try to be clever and add more procedures. But unless we rethink the... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services

24 Jun 2008
First Look

First Look: June 24, 2008

plants are a significant determinant of cross-country differences in income per worker. For this purpose, we use a standard version of the neoclassical growth model augmented to incorporate monopolistic competition among heterogeneous... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

03 Dec 2012
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Against the Grain

of Associate Professor Karthik Ramanna, the Henry B. Arthur Fellow of business ethics at Harvard Business School. In a nutshell, the case goes like this: "Jim" accepts a summer internship as a loan... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Food & Beverage

16 Nov 2020
Blog Post

Flatiron School: Reflections from Summer 2020

to provide visualization of data, machine learning models for prediction, and most importantly, insights that could influence the company’s strategy. To this end, the knowledge that I learned at HBS was definitely helpful, but the most... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

June 2024
Case

Building Innovation at VINCI

By: Dennis Campbell, Aluna Wang and Carlota Moniz

This case study explores how the VINCI Group, a French multinational operating in concessions, energy, and construction, bolstered awareness and adoption rates of new technologies within the organization. Through its separate innovation hub, Leonard, VINCI aimed to... View Details

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Educators

10 Jun 2015
Research & Ideas

The Transparency Revolution in Corporate Reporting

your business model and your industry, your company will have a big impact. That will positively affect your future profitability through brand building, cost savings, and employee engagement, which then... View Details

Keywords: Re: George Serafeim

11 Sep 2000
Research & Ideas

Riding the Internet Fast Track

business model. If the model is characterized by increasing returns, demand begets still greater demand, as illustrated by eBay's success. A business may also benefit from... View Details

Keywords: by Peter Jacobs

01 Sep 2018
News

An SUV Built for African Roads—by African Workers

has revamped more than just the design, says Yong, a former Bain consultant and Acumen Global Fellow who joined the automaker in 2016. “We have also rethought the conventional automotive business model... View Details

Keywords: Amy Yee

17 Nov 2015
News

Carbon Neutral

HBS Business and Environment Initiative’s “Climate Change 101” The Kennedy School’s Harvard Project on Climate Agreements HBS Business and Environment Initiative’s website for alumni Follow the HBS View Details

Keywords: Michael Blanding

Web

Europe - Global Activities 2021

study, there are no right answers to the questions posed in “Just Arrived” about the business models and approaches each app uses to address the challenge of integrating refugees into the job market, but... View Details

15 May 2012
First Look

First Look: May 15

Tequila Mobile SA, a mobile gamers developer, publisher, and service provider, had to make some important strategic decisions. Tequila Mobile SA had already decided to shift to a new "free2play" revenue model but needed to... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Dec 2016
News

Vive la Madeleine!

finally liquidated at the end of 2013, it employed a few dozen people. Now some of those workers, mostly women in their 50s, were occupying the factory around the clock in eight-hour shifts to prevent the sale of the equipment and to somehow get back to the View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustrations by Natalya Balnova

13 Jul 2022
Book

Reimagining the Economy: What Would It Take to Put People First?

governance structures and norms in place, businesses could help put people, including their workers, and the planet back at their core. Through a series of essays, the book exposes the fault lines between democracy and capitalism and,... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

25 Feb 2020
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020

model were the subject of a Harvard Business School case study. An inspirational story of grit and determination, Lift Off is also an uncommon lesson in best business... View Details

24 Oct 2013
News

Engineering a More Secure World

where I am now," he says. And each helped him create a model for the kind of business he ultimately wanted to run. In the middle of the last decade, Harris submitted a detailed list of parameters for his... View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Feb 2013
News

Growth Strategy Has Double Bottom Line

Hoffer and Hourdequin: Managing Directors at the Lyme Timber Company in Hanover, New Hampshire. Photo courtesy of the Lyme Timber Company LP It can be difficult to craft a business model that enables both... View Details

Keywords: Louisa Rigali; Forestry and Logging; Agriculture; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

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