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- 22 Mar 2018
- News
Sustainability: A New Way of Doing Business
- 05 Nov 2019
- News
Best Business Books 2019: Talent & leadership
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Creating Value in Your Business Ecosystem
Wal-Mart's and Microsoft's dominance in modern business has been attributed to any number of factors, ranging from the vision and drive of their founders to the companies' aggressive competitive practices. But the performance of these two... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
contrast, “we cause disasters that happen to ourselves,” he said. But there’s a built-in tension between having the state protect businesses from failure and allowing financial evolution to take its course,... View Details
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
epidemic of business scandals would be to speak of a widespread failure among CEOs and other senior executives (along with board members, auditors, financial analysts, and others) to uphold their... View Details
- TeachingInterests
MBA Elective Curriculum-- Competing Through Business Models
The words “business model” are inescapable in our daily fare of business news. These two ubiquitous words seemed to effortlessly rise up to prominence during the dot-com boom of the late 1990s. When businesspeople, journalists, academics, and other... View Details
- October 2017 (Revised September 2018)
- Supplement
Jumia Nigeria: from Retail to Marketplace (B)
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Namrata Arora
This follow up case study explores the ramifications of Jumia's decision to move from a retail-led to a markplace business model for its e-commerce platform. The case visits the company's successes as well as its many failures when adopting this vendor-led strategy. ... View Details
Keywords: Retail; Marketplace; Inventory; Funding; Business Ecosystems; Business Ecosystem; Competition; Business Model; Globalization; Emerging Markets; Expansion; Logistics; Retail Industry; India; Nigeria; Africa
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Namrata Arora. "Jumia Nigeria: from Retail to Marketplace (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 718-432, October 2017. (Revised September 2018.)
- 06 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
Updating a Classic: Writing a Great Business Plan
Sean Silverthorne: "How to Write a Great Business Plan" has been one of the most downloaded articles on Harvard Business Publishing since you wrote it in 1997. Why do you think you hit a nerve?... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jul 2011
- News
The Business of Champions
triumph since 1972 hold lessons for other kinds of organizations and companies? Sports and games serve as a handy source of metaphors for business. Performance metrics abound, and success and failure are on the scoreboard for all to see.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
biotechnology. The prospect is exhilarating, but the road to this brave new biotech world has more than a few bumps. With an average time line of ten years required to bring a drug to market - and the potential for failure looming every... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
business figures, such as John D. Rockefeller — gave many observers pause. The reaction was increased oversight and antibig business sentiment. I think such moments are part of something very important in... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- January – February 2012
- Article
When One Business Model Isn't Enough
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Jorge Tarzijan
Trying to operate two business models at once often causes strategic failure. Yet LAN Airlines, a Chilean carrier, runs three models successfully. Casadesus-Masanell, of Harvard Business School, and Tarziján, of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, explore how... View Details
Keywords: Integration; Failure; Business Model; Service Operations; Asset Management; Value; Complexity; Competency and Skills; Business Strategy; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Risk and Uncertainty; Customer Relationship Management; Air Transportation Industry
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Jorge Tarzijan. "When One Business Model Isn't Enough." Harvard Business Review 90, nos. 1-2 (January–February 2012).
- 2008
- Chapter
Business Archives and Overcoming Survivor Bias
By: G. Jones
Among the most longstanding criticisms of business history as an academic discipline is the bias caused towards studying successful firms rather than failures, and the related use of longevity as a major criterion for success. The grand narratives of business history... View Details
- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Biotech
years required to bring a drug to market—and the potential for failure looming every step of the way—the business of biotech is one of managing uncertainty over time. HBS professor Gary P. Pisano, a longtime... View Details
- 20 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business with Structured Finance
percent of its revenues came from rating structured finance products, versus the 32 percent of revenues generated from its traditional business of rating corporate bonds. A simulation is "still a model and it's not exact, which is... View Details
- 11 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Business Competition Harms Society
Competition Corrupts Business Practices, suggests that many organizations in highly competitive markets are likely to bend the rules if doing so will keep their customers from leaving for a rival firm. "Competition is generally... View Details
- 17 Jul 2009
- Research Event
Business Summit: Ethics in Globalization
Editor's Note: This is a summary of an HBS Business Summit presentation. View a full summary and video of the event on the HBS Centennial Web site linked below. Date of Event: October 13, 2008 Moderator: Rafael M. DiTella, HBS faculty... View Details
Keywords: Re: Rafael M. Di Tella