Innovative Business Model - Publications - Faculty & Research

24 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

In Troubled Africa, Botswana Flowers

companies hoping to do business across the southern tier of Africa. With the emergence of New Partnership for Africa's Development and the African Growth and Opportunity Act, the overall climate for trade and investment in Africa is... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

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Online Management Course | HBS Online

shape organizational processes to your advantage Influence the context and environment in which decisions get made Implement strategies, plans, and projects on time, on budget, and at the highest quality Spearhead learning initiatives that enable your organization to... View Details

April 2022
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Mastercard: Creating a World Beyond Cash

By: Sunil Gupta, Linda A. Hill, Julia Kelley and Emily Tedards

In late 2021, Mastercard CEO Michael Miebach and Chairman and former CEO Ajaypal “Ajay” Banga considered how Mastercard could best position itself for continued success in the years to come. Since Mastercard’s initial public offering in 2006, the company had grown and... View Details

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25 Apr 2024
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Origin Stories

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Where we come from and how we were raised has a profound effect on who we become. The recipients of this year’s Alumni Achievement Award grew up... View Details

20 Jan 2017
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Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency

handles that. And can he use those negotiating skills and those communication skills and create shared value skills in a situation where there’s no walk-away option and he doesn’t have the leverage. Command and control management model... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese

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Eligibility & Rules - Alumni

Applicant must be a first or second-time founder/co-founder only. Must have business model validation, traction, revenue, or customer commitments. The alumni track is geared towards high growth ventures with... View Details

15 Oct 2020
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IT Job Wages Are No Longer 'Exceptional'

should at least partially explain rising wage inequality in the United States—a widely documented fact—we find evidence to the contrary,” the authors write. The paper, Digital Labor Market Inequality and the Decline of IT Exceptionalism, was written by Harvard View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Information Technology

19 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy

Harvard Business School professor Pankaj Ghemawat has long argued that the best international strategy also includes recognition of differences in local markets. In the December 2005 issue of Harvard View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat

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Courses - Private Capital Project

models such as venture capital, growth equity, and buyouts. Participants will study investment criteria, management strategies, and decision-making processes essential in the field. Private Equity and Venture Capital The Investment... View Details

12 May 2009
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First Look: May 12, 2009

Publication:Harvard Business Review 87, no. 5 (May 2009) Abstract Few companies are thinking about hiring right now, but that's a mistake. If history is any guide, staffing will become a front-burner issue once the economic upheaval... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

11 Nov 2002
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Women Entrepreneurs Usher in the Next Generation

organized and hosted the conference. All three panelists represented praiseworthy models of entrepreneurs who have intertwined their personal values with business goals, said Hill, who has written HBS cases... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

26 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 26, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707451 CircleLending, Inc. 2006 Harvard Business School Case 206-137 CircleLending, an innovative start-up, offered individuals the ability to... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

14 Oct 2002
Research & Ideas

The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society

processes of production and distribution. This was a massive innovation over the older model of a single owner who tried to oversee everything. Under managerial capitalism, ownership became dispersed, but... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

October 2000 (Revised May 2001)
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Digitas (A): Strategic Interactive Group

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, David Lane and Courtenay Sprague

Kathy Biro, president of Digitas, an e-strategy consulting firm, has successfully grown out of the company's roots in the strategic interactive group. Her challenges now include managing the integration of the SIG with Digitas's other component, direct marketing firm... View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Business Strategy; Internet and the Web; Integration; Expansion; Business or Company Management; Business Model; Organizational Design; Consulting Industry; Massachusetts

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10 Aug 2011
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HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis

financial crisis. That is true but irrelevant. You don't need a crystal ball to see that we have an unsustainable business model and no political process for change. What we need is simple—growth. We need... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

12 Dec 2017
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New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017

Joy M., Liana Victorino, Ryan W. Buell, Michael J. Dixon, Susan M. Goldstein, Larry J. Menor, Madeleine E. Pullman, Aleda Roth, Enrico Secchi, and Jie Zhang Abstract—The purpose of this article is to present exciting and innovative... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 Feb 2006
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Take Responsibility for Rising Stars

have typically fallen into HR's domain. The prevailing wisdom has been that if HR took care of those often intangible "soft" issues, line managers and executives would be free to focus on "hard" business issues and... View Details

Keywords: by Jeffrey M. Cohn, Rakesh Khurana & Laura Reeves

04 Oct 2012
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5 Key Questions to Gauge the Culture in Your Startup

31 Jan 2018
Blog Post

Tiffany Nida’s Amazon Journey: “I Continue to Grow Because They Keep Giving Me Responsibility.”

At Amazon, Tiffany Nida (HBS MBA 2012) leads a fifteen-person team in her current role as Senior Manager, Product Management, in one of the company’s frontier business segments, Amazon Transportation. Her five-and-a-half year tenure... View Details

Keywords: Technology

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Launching Tech Ventures | HBS Online

Enrollment Stories FAQs Start Anytime Key Concepts Master frameworks and tools to execute a high-quality, profitable business model Discover how to conduct experiments to determine your venture’s value... View Details

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