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- Events (98)
- Multimedia (65)
- Faculty Publications (5,702)
- 2013
- Dissertation
Designing Freemium: A Model of Consumer Usage, Upgrade, and Referral Dynamics
By: Clarence Lee, Vineet Kumar and Sunil Gupta
Abstract. Over the past decade "freemium" (free + premium) has become the dominant business model among internet start-ups for its ability to acquire and monetize a large install-base with limited marketing resources. Freemium is a hybrid strategy where a firm offers... View Details
- June 2020
- Article
Parallel Play: Startups, Nascent Markets, and the Effective Design of a Business Model
By: Rory McDonald and Kathleen Eisenhardt
Prior research advances several explanations for entrepreneurial success in nascent markets but leaves a key imperative unexplored: the business model. By studying five ventures in the same nascent market, we develop a novel theoretical framework for understanding how... View Details
Keywords: Search; Legitimacy; Organizational Innovation; Organizational Learning; Mechanisms And Processes; Institutional Entrepreneurship; Qualitative Methods; Business Model Design; Business Model; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Emerging Markets; Adaptation; Competition; Strategy
McDonald, Rory, and Kathleen Eisenhardt. "Parallel Play: Startups, Nascent Markets, and the Effective Design of a Business Model." Administrative Science Quarterly 65, no. 2 (June 2020): 483–523.
- Article
Corporate Stakeholder Management Analysis Tools: A Review
By: Shashank Shah and A. Sudir Bhaskar
Shah, Shashank, and A. Sudir Bhaskar. "Corporate Stakeholder Management Analysis Tools: A Review." ICFAI Journal of Business Strategy 4, no. 4 (December 2007): 7–21.
- September 2000
- Background Note
Financial Statement and Ratio Analysis
By: Paul M. Healy and Jacob Cohen
Prepares students for financial ratio analysis. View Details
Healy, Paul M., and Jacob Cohen. "Financial Statement and Ratio Analysis." Harvard Business School Background Note 101-029, September 2000.
- June 1998 (Revised March 2017)
- Teaching Note
Chemalite, Inc. (B): Cash Flow Analysis
By: Robert Simons and Antonio Davila
Teaching Note for (9-195-130). View Details
- March 2007 (Revised December 2007)
- Background Note
Alleviating Poverty and Malnutrition: Successful Models
By: Ray A. Goldberg, Laura Winig and Kerry Herman
Provides successful models of private-public sector cooperatives in alleviating poverty and malnutrition. View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Nutrition; Cooperative Ownership; Business and Government Relations; Non-Governmental Organizations; Poverty; Welfare
Goldberg, Ray A., Laura Winig, and Kerry Herman. "Alleviating Poverty and Malnutrition: Successful Models." Harvard Business School Background Note 907-412, March 2007. (Revised December 2007.)
- Fast Answer
Insurance industry: companies and analysis
Health and Property - Casualty sectors. Click on the drop-down arrow for Industry Surveys under S&P Publication Search. Insurance Fact Book (print only): from the Insurance Information Institute is a source of industry statistics. The... View Details
- 22 Apr 2014
- News
Learning from experience and analysis
HBS Assistant Professor Ethan Bernstein (JD/MBA 2002, DBA 2013) talks about how HBS research and teaching help others learn from both experience and analysis. (Published April 2014) View Details
- November 1978 (Revised December 1987)
- Background Note
Country Analysis and General Managers
Rosenblum, John W. "Country Analysis and General Managers." Harvard Business School Background Note 379-050, November 1978. (Revised December 1987.)
- July 1993 (Revised July 1994)
- Background Note
Interim Period Reporting and Analysis
By: David F. Hawkins
Keywords: Financial Reporting
Hawkins, David F. "Interim Period Reporting and Analysis." Harvard Business School Background Note 194-001, July 1993. (Revised July 1994.)
- June 1985
- Background Note
Fixed Asset Accounting and Analysis
By: David F. Hawkins
Keywords: Accounting
Hawkins, David F. "Fixed Asset Accounting and Analysis." Harvard Business School Background Note 185-165, June 1985.
- May 1985
- Background Note
Equity Capital Transactions and Analysis
By: David F. Hawkins
Hawkins, David F. "Equity Capital Transactions and Analysis." Harvard Business School Background Note 185-128, May 1985.
- May 1985
- Background Note
Business Segment Disclosure and Analysis
By: David F. Hawkins
Keywords: Corporate Disclosure
Hawkins, David F. "Business Segment Disclosure and Analysis." Harvard Business School Background Note 185-127, May 1985.
- June 1985
- Background Note
Intangible Asset Accounting and Analysis
By: David F. Hawkins
Keywords: Accounting
Hawkins, David F. "Intangible Asset Accounting and Analysis." Harvard Business School Background Note 185-098, June 1985.
- March 1985 (Revised July 1986)
- Background Note
Foreign Operations Accounting and Analysis
By: David F. Hawkins
Keywords: International Accounting
Hawkins, David F. "Foreign Operations Accounting and Analysis." Harvard Business School Background Note 185-063, March 1985. (Revised July 1986.)
- 2022
- Working Paper
TalkToModel: Explaining Machine Learning Models with Interactive Natural Language Conversations
By: Dylan Slack, Satyapriya Krishna, Himabindu Lakkaraju and Sameer Singh
Practitioners increasingly use machine learning (ML) models, yet they have become more complex and harder to understand. To address this issue, researchers have proposed techniques to explain model predictions. However, practitioners struggle to use explainability... View Details
Slack, Dylan, Satyapriya Krishna, Himabindu Lakkaraju, and Sameer Singh. "TalkToModel: Explaining Machine Learning Models with Interactive Natural Language Conversations." Working Paper, 2022.
- July 2010 (Revised January 2017)
- Background Note
Marketing Analysis Toolkit: Customer Lifetime Value Analysis (2024)
By: Thomas Steenburgh and Jill Avery
Customers are increasingly being viewed as assets that bring value to the firm. Customer lifetime value is a metric that allows managers to understand the overall value of their customer base and relate it to three customer strategies firms employ: asset... View Details
Keywords: Customer Lifetime Value; Return On Investment; Customer Acquisition; Customer Retention; Customer Churn; ＂Marketing Analytics＂; Marketing; Customer Relationship Management; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Value and Value Chain; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Marketing Strategy; Measurement and Metrics; Strategic Planning; Value
Steenburgh, Thomas, and Jill Avery. "Marketing Analysis Toolkit: Customer Lifetime Value Analysis (2024)." Harvard Business School Background Note 525-017, July 2010. (Revised January 2017.)
- April 2021
- Article
A Model of Multi-Pass Search: Price Search Across Stores and Time
By: Navid Mojir and K. Sudhir
In retail settings with price promotions, consumers often search across stores and time. However, the search literature typically only models one pass search across stores, ignoring revisits to stores; the choice literature using scanner data has modeled search across... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Search; Multi-pass Search; Price Search; Store Search; Spatial Search; Temporal Search; Spatiotemporal Search; Dynamic Structural Models; MPEC; Price Promotions; Store Loyalty; Consumer Behavior; Price; Spending; Marketing; Mathematical Methods
Mojir, Navid, and K. Sudhir. "A Model of Multi-Pass Search: Price Search Across Stores and Time." Management Science 67, no. 4 (April 2021): 2126–2150.
- 2023
- Article
Benchmarking Large Language Models on CMExam—A Comprehensive Chinese Medical Exam Dataset
By: Junling Liu, Peilin Zhou, Yining Hua, Dading Chong, Zhongyu Tian, Andrew Liu, Helin Wang, Chenyu You, Zhenhua Guo, Lei Zhu and Michael Lingzhi Li
Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have transformed the field of question answering (QA). However, evaluating LLMs in the medical field is challenging due to the lack of standardized and comprehensive datasets. To address this gap, we introduce CMExam,... View Details
Keywords: Large Language Model; AI and Machine Learning; Analytics and Data Science; Health Industry
Liu, Junling, Peilin Zhou, Yining Hua, Dading Chong, Zhongyu Tian, Andrew Liu, Helin Wang, Chenyu You, Zhenhua Guo, Lei Zhu, and Michael Lingzhi Li. "Benchmarking Large Language Models on CMExam—A Comprehensive Chinese Medical Exam Dataset." Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Datasets and Benchmarks Track 36 (2023).