SaaS Business Models - Publications - Faculty & Research

17 Feb 2011
News

Field Report: Rwanda

Karisimbi Partners, a three-person private consulting group that works with small- to mid-sized enterprises. “The idea behind Karisimbi’s model is that sustained economic growth in Rwanda requires private enterprise, reform, and direct... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

12 May 2016
News

Food Rescue Is on a Mission

models are very powerful,” he explains. “We have trucks that do deliveries, but the innovation is in how we are able to suit local needs, with many different collection models customized for local... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

29 Oct 2021
Blog Post

Helping Women in Mexico to Live Fulfilled and Healthy Lives

Giovanna Abramo (MBA 2022) spent the last three years prior to HBS working at Bain & Company in Mexico City where she worked on performance improvement, strategy, and operational model redesign projects across industries like consumer... View Details

18 Jun 2001
Research & Ideas

Caught in the Cogs: When Manufacturing and IT Meet

to compete as efficiently as possible for customers and build the enterprise's value," Deninger said. The new business model delegates non-core activities to various specialized partners, creating what... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

Student-Profile

Alexandra C. Feldberg

Organizational Behavior program is simultaneously the most challenging and rewarding aspect of my experience at HBS. Being part of two campuses can sometimes be hard. I spend my days shuttling between the Organizational Behavior unit at the Harvard View Details

21 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Are We Thinking Too Little, or Too Much?

The most captivating item in Michael Norton's office is a Star Wars The Force Trainer, a toy that allows would-be Jedi warriors to levitate a Ping-Pong ball within a tube using only the power of focused thinking. Norton, a marketing professor at Harvard View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

14 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

Web Surfers Have a Schedule and Stick to It

Harvard Business School; and Jeffrey Prince, Indiana University. The study notes, for example: We devote a more or less fixed amount of time online each week. We don’t allocate more time when something new comes along; instead, we shift... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail; Web Services

14 Aug 2012
First Look

First Look: August 14

of leading globally distributed operations. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/612078-PDF-ENG Aman Resorts (Abridged) Eugene Soltes and Aldo SesiaHarvard Business School Case 112-100 This case describes the operating View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

New Challenges for Long-Term Investors

individual's portfolio to his or her age (young investors should take more risk with stocks) and attitudes toward risk (conservative investors should hold more cash). Research done by Harvard Business School finance professor Luis M.... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

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Teaching Cases - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

the three procedures at the two different sites using the hospital's existing cost system and a proposed new system based on time-driven activity-based costing. Hoag Orthopedic Institute Harvard Business School Case 115-023 Robert S.... View Details

Profile

Yaping Wang

business lens to make recommendations for leadership: planning road maps, choosing products for development, differentiating and positioning the brand. As a manager, there is so much to learn in order to lead and empower teams." As a... View Details

Keywords: CPG; Healthcare/Biotech; Retail/Hospitality

04 Sep 2019
News

From Das’s Desk

return to campus. We are viewing reunions as an opportune moment for substantive teaching and learning—and not just for alumni who return to campus. And then we flip this model on its head with our new Insights sessions, which explore... View Details

Keywords: Das Narayandas

04 May 2018
News

How to Win the Kentucky Derby

try to apply a business model. There is no business model that you can apply to the racehorse business, because you're dealing with a thoroughbred racehorse. And you're dealing... View Details

Keywords: horse racing

26 Jun 2025
News

The Vinyl Revival

pandemic, such that we went from a six-week turnaround time to a twelve-month wait on any products put in at Gold Rush. It forced me to look at how we pivot the business model and also how do we diversify... View Details

24 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

Can Obamacare Be Saved?

many carriers may have to develop a fundamentally different business model—the commercial segment model is not viable for the public exchanges.” INGREDIENTS FOR SUCCESS From consumers: Consumers need to... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch and Emily Boudreau; Insurance; Health

20 Oct 2021
Blog Post

Mobilizing Private Sector Action For Racial Equity in Milwaukee: SE Summer Fellow Zach Komes (MBA 2022)

concrete business model from scratch, skills that can be applied to any sector. Further, the HBS case method helped build my confidence and communications skills beyond the classroom, especially how to... View Details

11 May 2017
News

Going with the Flow

humor, however, is a no-nonsense approach to business performance that stems from Fisher’s upbringing as the daughter and granddaughter of rural central Pennsylvania entrepreneurs who taught her that great ideas can be backed with the... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

20 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

Moving from Supply Chains to Supply Networks

impact of the economics have really changed the nature of competition. Not only did others start to emulate this model, but more visible models of different ways to do things in the supply chain have also emerged. Consumer behavior.... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

20 Apr 2010
First Look

First Look: April 20

Working Papers Commodity Chains: What Can We Learn from a Business History of the Rubber Chain? (1870-1910) Author: Felipe Tâmega Fernandes Abstract The literature on the rubber boom applied a dependendist view of rubber production in the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Print View - Course Catalog

course will give students an understanding of these three 3 emerging technologies from the perspective of a business leader, preparing students for a world where technology creates exponential increases in capabilities, forcing View Details

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