Business Model Design - Publications - Faculty & Research

28 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'

timing, last Fall Congress passed the Small Business Reorganization Act of 2019, which is designed to reduce the financial and administrative burden of Chapter 11 on small- to medium-sized View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Banking

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Cotting House | About

Cotting House Cotting Cornerstone Ceremony 1967 Cotting House was made possible by, and is named in honor of, Charles E. Cotting (Harvard 1911). Constructed in 1967 during the tenure of Dean George P. Baker and designed by Robert Shaw... View Details

16 May 2000
Research & Ideas

Getting the Message: How the Internet is Changing Advertising

the world's largest advertising and marketing-services firms, describes the $4 billion spent last year as "chicken feed." What he finds interesting about the Web is the impact it is having on the wider area of communication services. Sorrell, whose View Details

Keywords: by Susan Young

08 Jan 2008
First Look

First Look: January 8, 2008

suffering incurred by the affected population. We use a political economy model of disaster prevention, supported by case studies and preliminary empirics to explain why some governments prepare well for disasters and others do not. We... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

17 Jun 2014
First Look

First Look: June 17

http://ssrn.com/abstract=2444741 Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 614-058 Hospital Clínic de Barcelona No abstract available. Purchase this case:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Working to Change the Food System

believed I was best positioned to drive innovations in business models and strategies, and bring new, world-changing technologies to market. I came to HBS to get exposure to people from different backgrounds... View Details

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Beth Clark | About

Elizabeth (Beth) Clark Bio As the Chief Information Officer at Harvard Business School (HBS), Beth Clark oversees the transformation and strengthening of enterprise IT, ensuring alignment with the School's reputation for excellence.... View Details

29 Oct 2020
Blog Post

Delving Deeper into Development with the MBA/MPA-ID Program – a Q+A with Zainab Raji (MBA/MPA-ID 2022)

in Winter 2019 I joined Deloitte’s Risk Advisory practice in Atlanta shortly after graduating from Emory with the goal of deepening my accounting expertise. At Deloitte, I designed and tested risk controls for leading Enterprise... View Details

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 Nov 2022
Research & Ideas

How Centuries of Restrictions on Women Shed Light on Today's Abortion Debate

education, or economic development, finds Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Anke Becker in a recent working paper called “On the Economic Origins of Restricting Women’s Promiscuity.” Her research investigates the origin of... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin

22 Feb 2021
Book

Reaching Today's Omnichannel Customer Takes a New Sales Strategy

Selling is changing, but broad generalizations and false dichotomies about ecommerce, big data, and other trends—hallmarks of current sales advice—are keeping business leaders from making sound decisions, says Frank Cespedes, author of a... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

10 Jan 2022
Research & Ideas

How to Get Companies to Make Investments That Benefit Everyone

since little of the upside tends to flow back onto corporate balance sheets. To that end, Nagle says, “Can we design systems and regulations to allow a company to get some of those benefits?” One model for... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

18 Feb 2019
Book

What’s Really Disrupting Business? It’s Not Technology

many entrepreneurs in action and to follow their thinking as it has evolved. Some entrepreneurs conceptualize their new business model all at once, in a single, grand epiphany. They proceed intuitively,... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Beauty & Cosmetics; Insurance; Service; Retail

26 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

The Office of Strategy Management

non-scorecard users. Based on our research and client work, we created a model to describe the roles and responsibilities of an OSM, as described in the recent Harvard Business Review article. Some of these... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

27 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

When Rights of First Refusal Are a Bad Deal

position of the owner with the third party, but it also allows the initial offer to the tenant to be set high. To explore the question of who actually benefits from this particular right of first refusal, the researchers conducted an experiment by View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Construction; Real Estate; Entertainment & Recreation

05 Jun 2009
What Do You Think?

What Does Slower Economic Growth Really Mean?

equivalent amount of food, steel, or information? If much recent growth has resulted from real estate and financial bubbles, will slower growth really have as profound an impact on our way of life and the corporate business View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Financial Services; Construction; Real Estate

18 Jul 2023

HBS Information Session in Chicago

Join us for an in-person information session about the Harvard Business School MBA Program. This event is designed for prospective applicants to learn more about the MBA Program and life at HBS. The event... View Details

18 Sep 2019
Op-Ed

WeWork—The IPO That Shouldn’t?

published in the company’s prospectus. The lessons to be found there are classic examples (and warnings to other IPO companies) of how not to frame a public offering. WeWork took advantage of being deemed an “emerging company” under the Jumpstart Our View Details

Keywords: by Nori Gerardo Lietz; Financial Services; Real Estate

20 Apr 2021
Book

A Simple Question That Can Guide Companies to Epic Success

New Video: Books@Baker Interview with Felix Oberholzer-Gee Click to watch. Some companies gain advantage by commanding premium prices. Others lean on their world-class talent. But, a small slice of companies manages to do both—and dramatically outperform peers. What... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

29 Aug 2023

HBS Information Session in Houston