SaaS Business Models - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2013
News

A Healthy Profit

me, education is about change. And Antares unquestionably changes students' lives." Calling on the Experts This spring, an HBS-HSPH student team is visiting Mumbai to consider how MeraDoctor can extend its reach to a broader segment of the population. It will examine... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance

02 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

Digital Initiative Summit: Big Messages, Small Screens, Many Choices

Business Administration and Chair of the General Management Program at HBS. Gupta, whose current academic interests lie in mobile advertising, mobile payments, and mobile commerce, described the difficult landscape confronting marketers... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising

01 Dec 2004
News

Clubs Offer Popular Management Programs

Executive Education courses. The Charlotte program is similarly motivated, offering the course as a benefit to local companies and using proceeds to support nonprofits in the community. “We basically took the Buffalo program and used it as a View Details

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

20 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

Maybe Uber isn't God's Gift to Mankind

the UK, licensed and insured vehicles, and full compliance with every applicable law and regulation. But Uber's “casual driver” model offered a perpetual cost advantage, and in October 2014 Hailo abandoned the US market. Uber's lesson to... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Transportation; Insurance

Web

Winners & Success Stories | New Venture Competition

Competition Winner, Business Track: Argus Systems Argus Systems accelerates AI model development for physical AI. Team: Lisa Yan (MBA 2025), Drew Borinstein (MBA 2025) Play Lexi: Sacerdote Grand Prize... View Details

12 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

Waking Up a Sleeping Company

One of the greatest challenges for the values-centered culture is to produce top performance and succeed in the market against "win at any cost" competitors. Values are only one part of an organization's culture; the other half is its operating norms—the way... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

01 Dec 2002
News

Books

services — they want control of their lives and are willing to pay for it. Addressing these needs, the authors say, could spark the next leap forward in wealth creation. This new business model envisioned by... View Details

24 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Uncovering Racial Discrimination in the ‘Sharing Economy’

The "sharing economy" is a burgeoning business model in which people offer their personal belongings and personal services to others, usually through online marketplaces that facilitate the transactions. It... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Construction; Real Estate; Advertising

Profile

Linda Leung

In her junior and senior undergraduate years, Linda Leung fulfilled the dream job of nerds, or at least Star Wars enthusiasts, worldwide: she developed simulation models for ion propulsion engines, the real-world technology behind the... View Details

01 Mar 2004
News

Reforming Company Boards

exceed analyst expectations. Businesses do not grow that way. If they’re managed well, they grow incrementally, with minor setbacks. The model that we have come to rely on — that companies’ earnings grow... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Services

28 May 2019
News

A More Perfect Union

we have this web of doers. The business model is very much like the network-based mobilization that we see in the tech world. This is not a top-down organization. Everyone owns it. One of our founding... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Dan Bejar

03 Mar 2009
First Look

First Look: March 3, 2009

The Fall of Enron Harvard Business School Case 109-039 The case traces the rise of Enron, covering the company's business innovations, personnel management, and risk management processes. It then examines... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 May 2012
First Look

First Look: May 1

Materials The Korean Model of Shared Growth, 1960-1990 Aldo Musacchio, Rafael Di Tella, and Jonathan SchleferHarvard Business School Case 712-052 This case narrates the development of the Republic of Korea... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

10 Feb 2015
First Look

First Look: February 10

into group processes, study diversity in the context of virtual interaction, and take advantage of opportunities for cross-disciplinary research. February 2015 European Business Review Preparing for Uncertainty: How to Use Creaction at... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2009
News

The Case for Studying Financial History

prepare for what was coming. My view is that you need at least 100 years of data to have a sense of the potential risks that globalization runs. Do business schools teach enough financial history? My impression of the major View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; federal bailouts; Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

29 Jan 2013
Research & Ideas

Creating the Perfect Super Bowl Ad

question whether ads, including the over-the-top Super Bowl spots, have become too entertaining, says Thales S. Teixeira, an assistant professor in the Marketing unit at Harvard Business School. In upcoming research, Why, When and How... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Advertising; Media & Broadcasting

06 Dec 2021
News

Monaco's Digital Transformation

and corporate and real estate taxes. According to Genta, Monaco’s business model is based mainly on real estate—among the most expensive in the world—representing 20 percent of the country’s GDP. EMBRACING... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

11 Jul 2012
News

A Man, and a Plan, in Africa

built his family’s New Jersey–based industrial distribution business over 15 years (to sell to a Fortune 50 company), and then as a consultant to family businesses and international investors. “We’ve... View Details

Keywords: Administration of Economic Programs; Government

18 Nov 2021
Op-Ed

5 Principles for Scaling Change from IBM’s High School Innovation

tech-oriented, two-year college degree. “P-TECH is a great example of what I call ‘thinking outside the building,’” says Rosabeth Moss Kanter, the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration at Harvard View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

03 Mar 2008
Research & Ideas

Marketing Your Way Through a Recession

Editor's Note: Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business Online. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge. The signs of... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

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