Publications

Publications

Filter Results: (736) Arrow Down
Filter Results: (736) Arrow Down Arrow Up

Show Results For

Show Results For

← Page 3 of 736 Results →
  • January 2017 (Revised October 2023)
  • Case

Classtivity: Payal's Pirouette

By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang and Olivia Hull
A few months after launching a new fitness technology product, the small staff of New York startup Classtivity gathers on a Saturday in April 2013 to take stock. With one successful pivot under its belt, Classtivity is finally generating revenue and enthusiasm among... View Details
Keywords: Product Pivot; Boutique Fitness; Fitness Industry; Market Sizing; Consumer Technology; Bundling; Subscription Model; Two-sided Marketplace; ClassPass; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Business Startups; Transition; Customer Focus and Relationships; Technological Innovation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Customer Value and Value Chain; Marketing Strategy; Failure; Business Strategy; Technology Industry; Health Industry; New York (city, NY)
Related
  • Article

Who Will Vote Quadratically? Voter Turnout and Votes Cast Under Quadratic Voting

By: Louis Kaplow and Scott Duke Kominers
Who will vote quadratically in large-N elections under quadratic voting (QV)? First, who will vote? Although the core QV literature assumes that everyone votes, turnout is endogenous. Drawing on other work, we consider the representativeness of endogenously... View Details
Keywords: Voting Turnout; Paradox Of Voting; Quadratic Voting; Pivotality; Elections; Voting; Political Elections; Mathematical Methods
Related
  • November 2024
  • Article

On the Representativeness of Voter Turnout

By: Louis Kaplow and Scott Duke Kominers
Prominent theory research on voting analyzes a variety of models in which expected pivotality drives voters' turnout decisions and hence determines voting outcomes. It is recognized, however, that such work is at odds with Downs's paradox: in practice, many... View Details
Keywords: Voting Behavior; Voting Turnout; Paradox Of Voting; Pivotality; Elections; Model; Theory; Governance Transparency; Government; Democracy; Turnout; Voting; Governance; Government and Politics; Public Sector; Political Elections
Related
  • January 2019 (Revised March 2021)
  • Case

SoundCloud: Subscription Streaming?

By: Ashish Nanda, Eric Van den Steen, Andy Wu, Jeffrey Boyar and Bonnie Bennett Slater
Established in 2007, SoundCloud already boasted the second largest number of active music listeners among all streaming services and was recognized as the go-to platform for new artists by early 2014. Yet, its founders were questioning the robustness of the firm’s... View Details
Keywords: Audio; Recording; Artist; Music; Music Downloads; Streaming; Radio; Subscription; Subscription Model; Mainstream; Growth; Lawsuit; Licensing; Customers; Platform; Pivot; Music Entertainment; Strategy; Leadership; Business Model; Decision Making; Advertising; Digital Platforms; Music Industry; Europe; Germany; Sweden; United States
Related
  • Career Coach

Elizabeth Gelb

Liz is happy to talk through career opportunities and strategies to pivot into roles in investing, consulting, sustainability, and energy, both internationally and domestically. Having worked in these industries prior to HBS and exploring... View Details
  • June 2023 (Revised November 2023)
  • Case

Sober Sidekick

By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang and Kumba Sennaar
Case on the nascent business model of a mobile health IT startup. In particular, should they pivot away from their successful lead generation business model to charging health plans. View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Operations; Business Startups; Business Model; Health Industry; United States
Related
  • 08 Apr 2025
  • Blog Post

HBS Career Journeys | Haoran Jiang (MBA 2024)

Haoran Jiang (MBA 2024) emphasizes how coaching and self-reflection helped him prioritize family and fulfillment, pivoting from a misaligned internship to a hands-on role in strategic finance. View Details
  • 23 Sep 2022
  • Research & Ideas

8 Strategies to Sustain Business Innovation

Sooner or later, every company runs into challenges that force them to make tough trade-offs during the innovation process. Harvard Business School associate professor Rory McDonald calls these moments “tensions.” The streaming service Netflix, for instance, has faced... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • Career Coach

Gavra Nwamadi

Private Equity. Gavra is particularly well-equipped to support students looking to 1) Pivot from consulting into Private Equity, 2) Recruit for MBB roles (particularly in EMEA but also in the US, 3) Pivot... View Details
Keywords: Consulting; Investment Banking; Financial Services (All); Private Equity; Financial Services (All)
  • Career Coach

Kelsey Young

Kelsey worked in impact roles for five years prior to business school and switched careers from traditional finance to impact investing in 2022. Kelsey can help student navigating various recruiting processes including: 1) exploring a career in impact investing and... View Details
  • 10 Nov 2020
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Research News and Tips: Innovating Across Time Zones

Danielle Li. American Economic Review: Insights (forthcoming). Selling your pivot story Young companies often shift gears to a new business strategy—pivoting—once the results of the original strategy have come home to roost. The question... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • Career Coach

Maude Hoffman

Maude is happy to help fellow students talk through career decisions and strategies to pivot to investing, sustainability, and energy. She studied chemical engineering undergrad, but has worked in non-engineering roles at SunPower... View Details
  • Career Coach

Doug Marsan

Doug is excited to help fellow students find their work purpose, especially those looking to fight the climate crisis through climate tech or looking to pivot into VC/startup land. He studied mechanical engineering at Notre Dame (Go... View Details
  • Career Coach

Bryant Warmate

General Motors/Honda. He pivoted to consulting with BCG to experience energy consulting and support with the energy transition. Bryant is also the Career Rep for the African Business Club (ABC) and loves supporting international students... View Details
  • Career Coach

Abhishek Avinash Gore

Before HBS, Abhishek was a consultant (Bain), and strategy & operations manager (Abbott). For his internship, he recruited across tech & consulting roles. He specializes in: 1) Pivoting into tech/product: As an outsider who... View Details
  • 28 Jun 2021
  • Blog Post

7 Things HBS Taught Me the Last 2 Years

I graduated from Harvard Business School last month with 900 indomitable classmates as part of the Class of 2021. I feel a deep sense of gratitude to my family, friends, colleagues, and everyone else who made this journey from Bombay to Boston possible. While I came... View Details
  • Career Coach

Minoshka Narayan

Minoshka can guide students who are looking to pivot into tech and help them better understand how to utilize resources within and outside HBS. She has extensive writing experience and can review cover letters and resumes, and networking... View Details
  • 05 Apr 2024
  • Blog Post

How I Spent my 2+2 Deferral: Zoe Bhargava

especially as I had recently pivoted my career plan from finance to tech after two summers interning at technology companies. After interning at Twitter my sophomore summer, I spent the following two years involving myself in the... View Details
  • 24 Oct 2024
  • Blog Post

Trailblazing Success with Global Reach and Impact: Scott Wallinger (AMP 82, 1979)

Learn about the career resources available to HBS alumni through HBS Career & Professional Development I didn’t have any formal business training when I came to Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program (AMP) Executive Education program. My background... View Details
  • Career Coach

Seamus Bann

Seamus is a veteran, ex-consultant, and career-switcher with success recruiting for PE and public markets. He enjoys helping students map their recruiting journey early in the HBS experience and then evaluate options on the other side. He is especially well-equipped to... View Details