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  • 31 Mar 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Can a ‘Basic Bundle’ of Health Insurance Cure Coverage Gaps and Spur Innovation?

will increase incentives for innovators to invest in new treatments,” the researchers say. A basic bundle would also need cost-sharing rules, provider payments, and myriad other details. Often, these are decisions that require detailed... View Details
Keywords: by Kasandra Brabaw; Insurance; Health
  • Web

General Management Curriculum - Faculty & Research

2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Doctoral Programs Faculty from the General Management unit work with students across several doctoral programs. Detailed curriculum information for each doctoral program associated with this unit can be found on the doctoral programs website: PhD in... View Details
  • 31 May 2017
  • What Do You Think?

Can Amazon Do What Walmart Couldn’t, Stop the 'Wheel of Retailing'?

In 1997, a young entrepreneur visited a class at Harvard Business School taught by my colleague, Len Schlesinger. The class discussed a case based on the visitor’s fledgling online retailing company that had rapidly expanded sales to $100 million. The main issue of the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail
  • 07 Jul 2011
  • What Do You Think?

So We Adapt. What’s the Downside?

to test, experiment, create and innovate along the way and to also be willing to reexamine that purpose frequently enough to be sure it is still relevant." As she put it, "It really is all about balance!" This suggests yet... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 15 Mar 2016
  • First Look

March 15, 2016

forthcoming Boston: Harvard Business Review Press The Three Box Solution: A Strategy for Leading Innovation By: Govindarajan, Vijay Abstract—How to Innovate and Execute. Leaders already know that View Details
  • Web

HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni

Material Impact This session will allow the audience to draw inspiration from founders, innovators, and entrepreneurs in a range of businesses who are making real change. Short presentations from each disruptor will be followed by discussion focused on their examples... View Details
  • 19 Apr 2010
  • Research & Ideas

The History of Beauty

necessary finance, there are contract manufacturers and perfumers that will provide a product for you. This is also an industry subject to sudden shifts in fashion and fads, which disrupt incumbent positions and provide opportunities for... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics
  • 08 Aug 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Decision Rights: Who Gives the Green Light?

"Because they lacked sufficient information," he says, "these managers were making highly disruptive decisions about work allocation and subsequently had to spend much of their time quelling the resultant flare-ups. Those... View Details
Keywords: by Peter Jacobs
  • 09 Mar 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Why Entrepreneurs Should Go Work for Government

other projects produced the nation's first big-city 311 app that allows citizens to alert government to potholes and graffiti. He also helped cut through zoning laws to create the Boston Innovation District on a vast and underdeveloped... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • Blog

Leading Successful Digital Transformation

may be disrupted in the future is not the best recipe for long-term success. Experimentation: Companies often run hackathons and innovation days that inspire employees to start many new digital projects.... View Details
  • Web

Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

Social Enterprise Track, 2013 Bluelight John Ikeda, HKS Manoah Koletty, HKS Mustafa Khalifeh Social Enterprise Track Winner Innovative consumer finance for the base of the pyramid. WAVE Hospitality Academy Misan Rewane, HBS Karan Chopra,... View Details
  • 09 Jan 2020
  • Book

Rethinking Business Strategy in the Age of AI

control specialists. A lot of people think of this as disruption, like the taxi industry is being disrupted by Uber. It’s not disruption. Rather, it’s a completely different kind of firm. This hasn’t happened in more than 100 years. Firms... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 17 Jan 2019
  • Blog Post

MBA Curriculum Spotlight: Short Intensive Programs (SIPs)

will be a combination of case discussions, guests, panels, and workshops.  Fintech: Disruptions in Credit, Payments and Real Estate  The advent of new technologies and big data promise to revolutionize the finance world by disintermediate... View Details
  • 31 Jul 2023
  • News

Striving for Imperfection

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Since he left HBS in 1990, Charles Conn (MBA 1990) has built a full and varied portfolio career. Early on, he was a partner at McKinsey and then a tech executive, founding Ticketmaster-Citysearch. Today,... View Details
Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management
  • Web

Design Thinking Course | HBS Online

This course is part of the Entrepreneurship & Innovation track. Introduction to Design Thinking and Innovation LIMITED TIME ONLY Extra learning at no extra cost. Enroll now and unlock a GenAI Bonus Bundle... View Details
  • October 2021 (Revised February 2023)
  • Case

Ant Group (A)

By: Krishna G. Palepu, Feng Zhu, Susie L. Ma and Kerry Herman
In 2004, Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba created Alipay, an app to facilitate payments on its e-commerce sites. As Alibaba grew, so did Alipay, until Alipay spawned its own ecosystem of financial technology products and services under the name of Ant Group. By 2020,... View Details
Keywords: Payment Systems; Information Technology; Value Creation; Network Effects; Strategy; Disruptive Innovation; Initial Public Offering; Technology Industry; Financial Services Industry; China
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  • 01 Mar 2024
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books You Got This! A Straightforward, No-Nonsense Playbook for Crushing 130+ Workplace Challenges By Heidi Abelli (MBA 1993) Palmetto Publishing Stepping into the corporate world can feel like navigating a labyrinth, especially when... View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • May 2022
  • Case

Maestro Pizza: Coming in Hot!

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Fares Khrais
Maestro Pizza opened its first store in 2013 after its founder, Khalid Al Omran, recognized an opportunity in Saudi Arabia to offer high quality pizza at affordable prices. The business grew rapidly and under the radar at first, but soon enough caught the attention of... View Details
Keywords: Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Competition; Market Entry and Exit; Emerging Markets; Business Startups; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Product Positioning; Disruption; Disruptive Innovation; Advertising; Advertising Campaigns; Social Media; Forecasting and Prediction; Crisis Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Brands and Branding; Product Development; Production; Service Delivery; Business Growth and Maturation; Financial Statements; Cost Management; Analysis; Quality; Performance Consistency; Customer Satisfaction; Profit; Family Ownership; Food and Beverage Industry; Middle East; Saudi Arabia
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  • 14 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 14, 2010

http://www.people.hbs.edu/ffoley/IPRImit.pdf Venture Capital Investment in the Clean Energy Sector Authors:Shikhar Ghosh and Ramana Nanda Publication:In America's Energy Innovation Problem Abstract We examine the extent to which venture... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 3, 2009

development of a business model based on "software as a service" (SaaS) for security solution distributed through Internet Service Providers (ISPs). F-Secure disruptively entered a mature business with dominant players by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace