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  • April 2012 (Revised October 2013)
  • Case

eBay, Inc. and Amazon.com (A)

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Anant Thaker
This case has been designed to explore strategic interactions among organizations with different business models. The case considers how a competitor successfully challenged the incumbent in a platform market defined by strong network effects and high switching costs.... View Details
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  • 25 Apr 2014
  • Video

Bob Gebhardt - Making A Difference

    Feng Zhu

    Feng Zhu is the MBA Class of 1958 Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, where he leads the Platform Lab within the Digital, Data, and Design Institute, co-chairs the Harvard Business Analytics Program, and serves as the course head for the... View Details

    • 26 Feb 2010
    • News

    Admit it: You're in denial

    • August 2020
    • Case

    Ready for Take-Off at Jet It

    By: Gary P. Pisano, Hise Gibson and Nicole Gilmore
    This case examines the business model and growth of a start-up company in the private aviation industry. In June 2020, amidst the COVID crisis, the company's co-founder and CEO must make a decision regarding an order of new jets that will significantly expand the... View Details
    Keywords: Capacity Planning; Business Startups; Business Model; Growth and Development Strategy; Air Transportation Industry
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    • 27 Apr 2023
    • Cold Call Podcast

    Equity Bank CEO James Mwangi: Transforming Lives with Access to Credit

    Keywords: Re: Caroline M. Elkins; Banking; Financial Services
    • 01 Dec 2015
    • News

    What to Do When Your Organization Has Dueling Missions

    • February 2010 (Revised November 2013)
    • Case

    Living PlanIT

    By: Robert G. Eccles, Amy C. Edmondson, Susan Thyne and Tiona Zuzul
    Living PlanIT is a start-up company that has developed a new, innovative business model for sustainable urbanization. This model reflects the software and technology backgrounds of its founders, Steve Lewis and Malcolm Hutchinson, and is in vivid contrast to other... View Details
    Keywords: Business Model; Business Startups; Development Economics; Entrepreneurship; City; Technological Innovation; Environmental Sustainability; Urban Development; Construction Industry; Green Technology Industry; Real Estate Industry; Portugal
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    • 02 Oct 2012
    • News

    The Secrets to TripAdvisor's Impressive Scale

    • June 2001 (Revised July 2001)
    • Case

    SKOLAR: Launching a University Technology Spinoff Company

    SKOLAR is the first company formally spun out of Stanford University. The company is searching for the right business model to commercialize its Internet-based medical information offering. View Details
    Keywords: Business Model; Commercialization; Higher Education; Information Technology; Business Startups; Information Technology Industry; Education Industry; California
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    • July 2009 (Revised August 2011)
    • Case

    What Happened at Citigroup? (A)

    By: Clayton S. Rose and Aldo Sesia
    What went wrong at Citigroup? In 1998, the Travelers Group and Citicorp merged to create Citigroup Inc., considered the first true global "financial supermarket" and a business model to be envied, feared, and emulated. By year-end 2006 the firm had a market... View Details
    Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Model; Decision Choices and Conditions; Globalized Firms and Management; Leadership; Risk Management; Failure; Financial Services Industry
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      V. Kasturi Rangan

      Kash Rangan is the Malcolm P. McNair Professor of Marketing at the Harvard Business School. Formerly the chairman of the Marketing Department (1998-2002), he is now the co-chairman of the school's Social Enterprise Initiative. He has taught in a wide variety of MBA... View Details

      Keywords: advertising; agribusiness; apparel; automobiles; computer; consumer products; e-commerce industry; high technology; industrial goods; marketing industry; pharmaceuticals
      • August 2000 (Revised February 2002)
      • Case

      Arepa

      By: Jay O. Light and Daniel J. Green
      This case illustrates the importance of structuring negotiations with large companies and investors that are critical to a start-up's success. It depicts a firm with innovative technology that contracts with giant companies in order to survive. It also demonstrates how... View Details
      Keywords: Negotiation; Organizational Structure; Entrepreneurship; Technological Innovation; Business or Company Management; Business Model; Partners and Partnerships; Business Startups
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      • 05 Jan 2015
      • News

      Make in India should focus on advanced manufacturing

      • January 2002 (Revised October 2005)
      • Case

      General Electric Medical Systems 2002

      By: Tarun Khanna and James Weber
      Discusses one of General Electric's flagship divisions--the world's leading provider of medical diagnostic imaging equipment. Provides an opportunity to examine a multinational confronting massive technological and demographic changes around the world. Genomics has... View Details
      Keywords: Information Technology; Business Model; Change Management; Multinational Firms and Management; Genetics; Customer Value and Value Chain; Age; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; China; United States
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      • 05 Jul 2012
      • News

      Africa: Management Education for the Masses

      • July 2023
      • Supplement

      Honeycomb (B): Jumping on The Generative AI Bandwagon?

      By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang and Kumba Sennaar
      Honeycomb, an audio app enabling users to record stories and save family memories, considers pivoting to embrace generative AI. What should the co-founders business model look like if they pursued this new direction? View Details
      Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Operations; Business Startups; Business Model; AI and Machine Learning; Technology Industry; United States
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        Alberto F. Cavallo

        Alberto Cavallo is the Thomas S. Murphy Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, where he teaches in the Business, Government, and the International Economy (BGIE) unit, a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a... View Details

        • June 2024
        • Teaching Note

        Numenta in 2020: The Future of AI

        By: David B. Yoffie
        In 2020, Numenta’s co-founder, Jeff Hawkins, completed his pathbreaking research on artificial intelligence. His co-founder and CEO, Donna Dubinsky, had to find a business model to monetize the technology. This teaching note explores the challenges of building a... View Details
        Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Monetization; Strategy; Intellectual Property; AI and Machine Learning; Business Model; Entrepreneurship; Technology Industry
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        • 24 Apr 2024
        • News

        What Managers Can Learn from Jazz Improvisation