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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Read All About It: Journalism Can Be Profitable
is going away. It’s not like going from CD to MP3, where the user experience is essentially the same. Reading a newspaper in print is very different from reading it digitally, and from a revenue perspective, print subscription revenue for... View Details
- 24 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni New Venture Competition Finalists Named
healthy snacks for everyone, not just foodies, health nuts or the well-to-do. Everyone. Alumnus: Gordon Liao, MBA 2004 Region: Midwest/Central US ivy maker: Play tech, have fun, fix application. Alumna: Ying Zhang, MBA 2004 Region: Asia-Pacific Panda Plates: A weekly... View Details
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
big-screen subscriptions for cable or any of the many streaming services, from Amazon to Hulu, that people are consuming in their evening hours—a market against which Whitman says they are not in direct competition. The founders worked... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
A Matter of Opinion
much stronger grasp of business fundamentals, such as how to read a balance sheet, apply price-earnings and other ratios, and be an effective manager generally. One insight he gained was that a Nation reader was really a potential “customer” for life, with “value” far... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Case Study: Something New
readers weighed in on a question posed by KitNipBox cofounder and CEO Deena Malkina (MBA 2008): How could the monthly subscription service for cat owners erect sustainable barriers to entry to the market and secure a market leadership... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
Working Knowledge (www.hbsworkingknowledge.hbs.edu). We are excited that the site not only provides alumni with substantive, faculty-driven content but also serves as a vehicle for career services and networking. In addition, HBS Working Knowledge offers a low-cost... View Details
Keywords: Edmund A. Hajim (MBA '64)
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Staying the Course
Within a week of launching a 90-day free trial, subscriptions grew by 3600%. In addition, the company accelerated the release of a new product, originally designed for classroom instructors and now geared to administrators. The recently... View Details
- 24 May 2017
- News
Angie Hicks, MBA 2000
mornings building a list of vendors and afternoons knocking on doors, selling $19 subscriptions for the referral service. Averaging only 1–2 per day, the rejection was painful and Oesterle provided pep talks and Kleenex. At some point he... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 17 Apr 2015
- News
A Driving Force for a Sustainable World
subscriptions for the service. “I especially find it rewarding as these emerging companies develop projects that, in the long run, will contribute to a better world for the coming generation; they all want to do more and do better with... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Life in Lockdown
business idea. Now. Propped up on her elbows and staring at her laptop as ideas furiously dance in her head, she considers all possibilities. What about a monthly subscription box sent to a woman just before her period? Tampons.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
asked his students. The class quickly reached consensus: Parker’s great, the idea is great, the context is pretty good—despite volatile interest rates—but from an investor’s point of view, the deal stinks. Well, true enough—except that because Parker had deferred rent,... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 29 Apr 2025
- News
Challenge Accepted
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Nietzsche said it first: What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger. There’s a reason that saying has legs, nearly 140 years later. We all, at some point... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
most people had the best market data. But not anymore, says Dubrowski. Today, his 22-person firm pays upward of $400,000 a year for subscription data services, the same services that are available to large and small industry participants... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Reality to News Biz: Drop Dead
newspapers rush to post so much of their hard-won content when they survived on newsstand and subscription dollars? Did they really think the dog was going to give back that bone? “The quid pro quo of payment for services rendered... View Details
- 26 Jun 2025
- News
The Vinyl Revival
in our supply chain is out of our control. Jen Flint: Meanwhile, streaming subscriptions are still going through the roof. Think about the balance of the two, analog and digital. Are there any things that streaming gets right for music... View Details
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
organization, which was renamed the Advisory Board Company in 1983, hit its stride by pioneering a membership model that charged clients an annual subscription rate for reports on the latest research on best practices. In 1997 the... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
From the Editors
"considerable difficulty" in getting the magazine out on time, had cut the publication schedule to six times a year and set a subscription price of 75¢ a year, which was included in the $2 annual Alumni Association dues. Bates, who... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
What’s Next
question, which is linked to the idea of lifelong learning, is one we candidly have had limited success addressing in the past. We've tried short Executive Education programs targeted solely at alumni, extended programming over reunion weekends, View Details