SaaS Business Models - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2018
News

Q&A with Janet Cahill

photo by Zhou Junxiang Why does HBS ask alumni to give every year? Our economic model depends on annual giving by alumni and friends. Rather than being added to the HBS endowment, current use gifts are put to use immediately to support... View Details

30 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Driving Social Impact Through Consumer Behavior: Nonprofit to Finance to Retail with Nicole Krantz (MBA 2022)

remained heavily engaged in nonprofit work while at the same time starting to explore her interest in business. This time, it was her father’s for-profit business career that captured her curiosity, and an on-campus View Details

Keywords: Retail

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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

02 Sep 2008
First Look

First Look: September 3, 2008

Exercise of Leadership, a New Model Authors:Werner Erhard, Michael C. Jensen, Steve Zaffron, Kari L. Granger Abstract This paper is the (pre-course) introduction document to an experimental course developed by the authors and taught at... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2001
News

Reaching Out

B. Clark on the HBS campus in October (click here). This year's fellows numbered 53, the highest participation level in the program's history. While the business community's commitment to the nonprofit sector is well established,... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons and Julia Hanna; Health, Social Assistance

24 Jul 2012
First Look

First Look: July 24

information has increased considerably in the last decade, companies are still failing to disclose material information in a comparable format. We believe this has two downsides. On the one hand, companies are not adequately managing important View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Sep 2006
Research & Ideas

The Power of Ordinary Practices

or deflate the people who were working for them. They were trying to do a good job of leading their teams, but lacked an effective model for how to behave. So, I would say sweat the small stuff, not only when you're dealing with your... View Details

Keywords: Re: Teresa M. Amabile

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

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2019 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Livingston (Harvard Kennedy School), he developed anti-bias training for Airbnb. Dr. Glick co-developed the warmth-competence model (with Susan T. Fiske, Princeton, and Amy Cuddy, Harvard), recognized as a "breakthrough idea" in the... View Details

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

16 Nov 2015
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Connecting with Indigenous Traditions

providing the model for how to walk in the world in a way that provides meaning and sustainability. In the modern world, we look at elders as a drain on society, but here elderhood is seen as an invaluable asset. This mentoring program is... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

23 May 2000
Research & Ideas

The Emerging Art of Negotiation

lost); differing interpretations of what constitutes fair play. Be it a straightforward business transaction, a divorce or an international struggle to reach a peace agreement, there's much that can go wrong. But there's also much that... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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

01 Apr 2000
News

Q & A: A Conversation with IRS Chief Charles Rossotti

individual taxpayers with wage and investment income; small business and self-employed taxpayers; large business taxpayers; and exempt organizations, such as nonprofits and state and local governments. Each... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

26 Aug 2020
News

Empowering Rural Communities

rural communities in the American West, in places not unlike the small coal town in Utah where Riley grew up. He knows that his business model to provide cheaper green energy will hurt the job prospects in... View Details

Keywords: Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

13 Sep 2019
News

Hollywood Ending

“With the exception of Disney, which is disrupting itself, a lot of other companies in media and entertainment can’t invest fully in what the future might look like because they have a legacy business model... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photo by Christina Gandolfo

20 Mar 2013
Research & Ideas

How CEOs Sustain Higher-Ambition Goals

At a recent Harvard Business School conference, dozens of CEOs committed to the idea of working toward "higher-ambition" goals that go beyond just short-term shareholder value. Inspired by the book Higher Ambition: How Great Leaders... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

22 Aug 2019
News

Catalyzing Africa’s Tech Sector

Because global brands begin to create access to global income. And three, because they work with Andela and our model is distributed, they live and work in their local countries. And so whatever they're earning is being spent locally. The... View Details

22 Apr 2008
First Look

First Look: April 22, 2008

creating social value. Three years later, Harold Rosen, its creator, wished to explore an alternative funding model to provide it with scale and sustainability. Purchase this case:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Feb 2008
What Do You Think?

How Sustainable Is Sustainability in a For-Profit Organization?

sustainability is more achievable "if the concept is integrated into the business model at inception." And as Laura Howard put it, "This works best in small companies who can design their... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

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