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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
A Student Plan Goes to Washington
of time and lack of knowledge. Their solution? Elevate board service to a profession by creating a nonprofit, public-private Corporate Governance College (CGC) to employ, train, and coordinate the placement of full-time professional... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
Personalized Medicine,” a Harvard Business Review article that outlines an agenda that could hasten the transition from “trial-and-error” therapies for life-threatening illnesses to a more targeted line of attack. Aspinall began her career at Bain & Company, working... View Details
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Maya Babu
Government policy changed the way Maya Babu thinks about health care. For a summer internship, she worked in the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration of Health and Human Services. "It was run very much like a... View Details
- 26 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 26
iPad vs. Amazon's Kindle By: Adner, Ron, Jianqing Chen, and Feng Zhu Abstract— We study the compatibility decisions of two competing platforms that generate profits through both hardware sales and royalties from content sales. We consider a game-theoretic View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Flying High
aerospace sector, proposed a different approach for Aero, one that took its cues from other profitable airlines that own their fleets: “We’re a low-cost carrier on the back end and a premium service on the front end,” she explains. Mikael... View Details
Keywords: April White; aviation; airlines; entrepreneurship; leadership; innovation; Air Transportation; Transportation
- September 2010 (Revised April 2013)
- Case
Gazelle in 2012
By: Andrei Hagiu and James Weber
Gazelle has pioneered a reCommerce intermediation model: it buys used electronics from consumers and resells them on eBay or to wholesalers. Going forward, its two main strategic challenges are 1) deciding how much to rely on partnerships with large retailers for... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Growth and Development Strategy; Markets; Two-Sided Platforms; Partners and Partnerships; Business Strategy; Service Industry; Service Industry
Hagiu, Andrei, and James Weber. "Gazelle in 2012." Harvard Business School Case 711-446, September 2010. (Revised April 2013.)
- 04 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 4
converging U.S. GAAP with IFRS, competition between the FASB and the IASB would allow GAAP to better respond to market forces. Patent Policy, Patent Pools, and the Accumulation of Claims in Sequential Innovation Authors:Gastón Llanes and Stefano Trento Abstract We... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Mar 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sophisticated Investors May Be Harming Fintech Lending Platforms
biggest departure from the traditional banking model, where banks do the legwork on behalf of investors, and investors may have little or no information about loans—and in fact may not know which loans their money is supporting. “The lending View Details
- March 2010 (Revised August 2010)
- Case
Creative Capital: Sustaining the Arts
By: G. Felda Hardymon and Ann Leamon
Creative Capital provides grants to individual artists using a venture capital model—the money comes with guidance and governance. Artists receive money as milestones are reached and also receive guidance on managing their lives and business to increase their... View Details
Keywords: Arts; Business Model; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Growth and Development Strategy; Nonprofit Organizations; Financial Services Industry
Hardymon, G. Felda, and Ann Leamon. "Creative Capital: Sustaining the Arts." Harvard Business School Case 810-098, March 2010. (Revised August 2010.)
- 29 Feb 2016
- HBS Case
Bigbelly's Big Bet on the Digital Trash Can
self-compacting solution to keep streets clean. Last year, however, the Massachusetts-based company’s CEO shared plans to change its business model from selling a product—waste and recycling stations—to selling a subscription-based View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
1960s—but its most influential product might just be its model of entrepreneurship: disruptive, asset-light and capital-intensive businesses with a scale-at-all-cost mentality and no fear of failure. But now something is threatening to... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond Accommodation
thought it would allow me to have a direct impact for a while.” The interesting business model that attracted Gibbons to NIB was also the organization’s weak point only a few years earlier. As a nonprofit organization established by the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
“we-dentity” and the power of community in the face of an inefficient, sometimes corrupt, local government. Santa Ana del Valle, for example, provides many of its services (such as policing or maintenance of the church and museum) through... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Full Stream Ahead
IFPI’s Global Music Report. Apple Music and Spotify, services that were once thought to be the industry’s coup de grace, have actually transformed cash flows. Streaming has also created important data sets. As listeners gain wider access... View Details
- 12 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 12, 2016
and minimizes the expected time to detection under a pre-specified alternative hypothesis. We apply our method to a model in which the interdependency among the multiple adverse events is captured by a Cox proportional hazards View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Searching for Better Practices in Social Investing
panelists explored the benefits and potential pitfalls of "venture philanthropy," the term for applying the techniques of venture capitalists in funding nonprofits and other socially focused organizations. The model differs from... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Entrepreneurs Speak at HBS
companies with estimated annual revenues of $4 billion, is one of the world's most colorful business leaders. His oft-repeated message: "If your business isn't fun, it's ultimately going to be worthless to you." From its airline to financial View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Redefining Health Care
PORTER: Health care's zero-sum competition model adds costs and results in severe quality problems. University professor Michael Porter never planned to write a book on health-care reform. In fact, he expected brickbats in response to a... View Details
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Executive Education Courses - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
who direct cost management Senior executives or strategists from large organizations that provide health care to employees or customers, collaborate with health care institutions, or offer on-site health services or retail health care... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Strengthening Ties with Executive Education Graduates
fastest-growing economies. I hope many of you have made plans to attend. The Clubs and Associations Committee, chaired by Roslyn Braeman Payne (MBA 1970), continues to analyze alumni club needs and work on recommendations for building club membership. (See related... View Details