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- 01 Dec 2010
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The Transformers
in part, by how much it gave away. If that seems counterintuitive at best and downright crazy at worst, think again. The Bridgespan Group, the consultancy they created, has turned the standard business model on its head. While consultants... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
manage them properly. This frenetic activity was more than a game of corporate musical chairs. More fundamentally, it was a story of a search for identity by an industry whose borders were still unclear. It was also a search for the right business View Details
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
sound like a throwback way of delivering care, but paired with a few critical 21st-century upgrades—technology-enabled efficiency and patient-centered design—this community-based care model may represent one of Japan’s best hopes for the... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Get Creative
great deal of courage and leadership to embrace this model where you enable and encourage users through various challenges and allow the community the degree of autonomy it needs to be healthy. So, in a nutshell: Split your IP. Have a... View Details
- 21 Dec 2018
- News
Bridging the Gap
who she was—and maybe who she wanted to be. Falik never did find that outlet, which inspired her to build it herself. She spent her two years at HBS narrowing the vision and the model of an organization that she felt could address this... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
produce an infinite variety of possible SmartPak combinations in a cost-effective way and get orders out the door in a timely manner. Our economic model had some great features — customized products, continuity sales, limited working... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Critical Information: MIS Monitors the Ever-Changing World of IT
managerial model emerging out of these capabilities the "sense-and-respond" approach. He and HBS professor Stephen P. Bradley explore the implications of this paradigm shift in their upcoming book, Sense and Respond: Capturing the Value... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Case Study: Golden Ticket
long-term “strategy” is fun to talk about but rarely works out the way you planned it. I would focus on proving out the revenue (and profit) model and trying to get to cash flow breakeven by delighting the 200 customers. After executing... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
for HBS. Steve Taylor (MBA ’71) Park City, UT Is Current Capitalist Model Sustainable? The March Bulletin was uplifting. I was very pleased with the news about Al Gore visiting the campus and Garry Emmons’s article addressing the problem... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 28 Feb 2025
- News
Joy to the World
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Justin Pasquariello (MBA 2010), CEO of East Boston Social Centers, spent time in foster care as a child, living in more homes than he can remember,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
number of HBS alumnae founders runs around 25 percent, which is somewhere between VC industry norms and the current HBS class composition of about 46 percent women. There’s more we can do, but we have fantastic role models who have had a... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
in the Networked Age by Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha, and Chris Yeh (MBA 2000) (Harvard Business Review Press) The employer-employee relationship is broken. The old model of guaranteed long-term employment no longer works in a business... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
View from the Top
and support the achievement of objectives. What are some of the leadership lessons to be learned from the fall of Enron? Lafley: Beware of hubris. It raises the question, "Did they have the capability to understand the business model they... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?
financial returns and impact in the business model of investee companies. Quite a few of the large, global PE firms have launched impact funds over the last year. On the public side, I think ESG will become core to any financial analysis,... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 22 Feb 2019
- News
Empowering a New Generation of Business Leaders
how the business model has changed,” says Luis Zuluaga (MBA 2001), who organized the event with Shirley Cardona (MBA 2012) and Lulu Curiel (MBA 2010). Zuluaga says Conde and McGee also referred to a recent HBS case that explored Conde’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
America the Difficult
investment, most such arguments are founded on hubris rather than on solid advantages or capabilities. Indeed, Norway, the country with the most experience in investing national wealth, has developed an endowment model that eschews direct... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Delivering the Goods
profit motive is needed. One argument for ending monopolies and opening the market for private services is that this might lead to more rapid technology introduction and innovation. You don’t have to look very far to find examples of alternative business models.... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Business Case (Or Not) for Sustainability
dire need for US federal policy to address climate change. RH: When you look at Europe, you see many companies agitating for some kind of carbon regulation and beginning to shift their business models in this direction. If you expect your... View Details
- 24 May 2017
- News
John H. McArthur, MBA 1959, DBA 1963
Braunwald, a renowned health care leader who was part of the BWH team. That merger serves as a model for others throughout the country. McArthur’s vision has also benefited HCA Healthcare, Duke University Medical Center, and... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 15 Sep 2015
- News
Easing the Costs of Saving a Child
less so. Taylor contributed to a not-for-profit to help pay airfare to bring orphans to the United States for month-long summer vacations with prospective adopting families. The program ran so well, he doubled his loan the following year. “The recycling of the capital... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken