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    The Money of Invention: How Venture Capital Creates New Wealth

    When the economy was booming and dot-coms were flying high, venture capitalists were admired as impresarios of innovation. Then the market tanked, start-ups fizzled, and those same deal-makers were rebuked as predators out for a quick score. So... View Details
    • December 2000
    • Background Note

    Online Market Makers

    By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Chris Hackett
    Describes the business model for online market makers, firms that use the Internet to organize a marketplace, providing participants with a virtual "place" to trade, rules to govern their exchanges, and infrastructure to support trading. First it proposes a definition... View Details
    Keywords: Business Model; Web Services Industry
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    Eisenmann, Thomas R., and Chris Hackett. "Online Market Makers." Harvard Business School Background Note 801-308, December 2000.
    • June 2021
    • Case

    HelloSelf: Search

    By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
    In August 2018, after nearly six months of searching, Charles Wells was convinced that he should found HelloSelf to help people improve their sense of mental wellbeing. Those feeling mentally unwell would receive support from fully qualified clinical psychotherapists,... View Details
    Keywords: Mental Health; Health Care and Treatment; Internet and the Web; Business Model; Product Launch
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    Wells, John R., and Benjamin Weinstock. "HelloSelf: Search." Harvard Business School Case 721-484, June 2021.
    • 12 Nov 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    The Marketing of a President

    Editor's Note: Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business Online. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge. When the... View Details
    Keywords: by John Quelch
    • May 2025
    • Case

    The Future of the BBC: Public Ownership vs. Privatization

    By: Henry McGee
    With viewership of the British Broadcasting Company (BBC) in decline, the country’s Culture Minister must recommend a new funding model for the venerated public institution which will allow the broadcaster to succeed in an increasingly competitive media environment. View Details
    Keywords: Television Entertainment; Cooperative Ownership; State Ownership; Privatization; Public Ownership; Competition; Business Model; Media and Broadcasting Industry; United Kingdom
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    McGee, Henry. "The Future of the BBC: Public Ownership vs. Privatization." Harvard Business School Case 825-086, May 2025.
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    Digital Innovation and Transformation – MBA Elective Curriculum

    By: Feng Zhu
     

    Digital Innovation and Transformation is designed to equip students to confidently help conceive, lead and execute digital innovation initiatives and develop new business models for existing and insurgent organizations. The basic premise of the course... View Details

    • 25 Jun 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    HBS Cases: Beauty Entrepreneur Madam Walker

    Koehn discovered, Walker had lived an entrepreneurial life that was dramatic and deeply complex on many levels. "I think much of Walker's business model and her animating vision is a product of the... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Beauty & Cosmetics
    • 24 Jan 2005
    • Research & Ideas

    Rethinking Activity-Based Costing

    from making unnecessary new investments in capacity. For example, the vice president of operations at Lewis-Goetz, a hose and belt fabricator based in Pittsburgh, saw from his time-driven ABC model that one of his plants was operating at... View Details
    Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & Steven R. Anderson
    • 2014
    • Working Paper

    Product to Platform Transitions: Organizational Identity Implications

    By: Elizabeth J. Altman and Mary Tripsas
    Organizations are increasingly recognizing that value they once derived from offering standalone products can be significantly enhanced if they transition to platform-based businesses that harness the innovative capabilities of complementors. While the competitive... View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Change; Organizational Identity; Ecosystems; Complementors; Managing Innovation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Multi-Sided Platforms; Innovation and Management; Organizational Culture
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    Altman, Elizabeth J., and Mary Tripsas. "Product to Platform Transitions: Organizational Identity Implications." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 14-045, December 2013. (Revised September 2014.)
    • September 2018
    • Case

    Haier in the U.S.: Transforming GE Appliances

    By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jonathan Cohen
    Chinese appliance company Haier's 2016 acquisition of iconic GE Appliances (GEA) ushered in strategic and structural changes to encourage innovation and entrepreneurship at the U.S. company and to help it grow. Haier, which had a model designed to bring the company... View Details
    Keywords: Iconic Brands; Appliances; Digital; Innovation; Entrepreneur; Microenterprise; Management; Entrepreneurship; Transformation; Innovation and Management; Acquisition; Consumer Products Industry; United States; China
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    Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and Jonathan Cohen. "Haier in the U.S.: Transforming GE Appliances." Harvard Business School Case 319-044, September 2018.
    • 02 May 2005
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    Four VCs on Evaluating Opportunities

    Partner, Trinity Ventures In no particular order, for us they are team, market opportunity, and the product/value proposition for the solution. Technology differentiation or business model differentiation is... View Details
    Keywords: by Lauren Barley
    • August 2018
    • Teaching Note

    IguanaFix

    By: Frank V. Cespedes and Thomas Eisenmann
    Teaching Note for HBS No. 817-056. IguanaFix, based in Argentina, is a platform business that connects consumers with home improvement contractors. The founders are evaluating growth options and an investment offer. The case focuses on scaling issues for a venture... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurial Marketing; Home Improvement Services; Marketing Management; Scaling; Entrepreneurship; Marketing; Sales; Digital Platforms; Growth and Development Strategy
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    Cespedes, Frank V., and Thomas Eisenmann. "IguanaFix." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 819-029, August 2018.
    • April 2002
    • Case

    Contingent Workforce Planning at Motorola, Inc.

    Details the rationale for and design of a unique organizational response by Motorola to the challenges of contingent staffing at its semiconductor facility in Austin, Texas. The new outsourcing strategy is built on principles of supply chain management and business... View Details
    Keywords: Selection and Staffing; Semiconductor Industry; Texas
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    Beaulieu, Nancy D. "Contingent Workforce Planning at Motorola, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 902-211, April 2002.
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    New Sales Realities

    By: Frank V. Cespedes
    Business leaders need to understand that it’s the fit of People, Process, Pricing, and Partners that drives sales effectiveness. As firms confront new buying processes, required sales competencies affect hiring, training, and development (People). Without a coherent... View Details
    Keywords: Sales; Performance Effectiveness
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    Cespedes, Frank V. "New Sales Realities." International Journal of Sales Transformation 7.1 (April 2021): 26–27.
    • January 2023
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    Social Networks, Ethnicity, and Entrepreneurship

    By: William R. Kerr and Martin Mandorff
    We study the relationship between ethnicity, occupational choice, and entrepreneurship. Immigrant groups in the United States cluster in specific business sectors. For example, Koreans are 34 times more concentrated in self-employment for dry cleaning than other... View Details
    Keywords: Self-employed; Occupation; Entrepreneurship; Ethnicity; Immigration; Networks
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    Kerr, William R., and Martin Mandorff. "Social Networks, Ethnicity, and Entrepreneurship." Journal of Human Resources 58, no. 1 (January 2023): 183–220.
    • October 2022
    • Case

    Star Magnolia Capital: Becoming Experts at Finding Experts

    By: Lauren Cohen, Hao Gao, River Ewing and Grace Headinger
    Shinya Deguchi, Founder and Managing Partner of Star Magnolia Capital, a Shanghai-based multi-family office (MFO), considered how to convince a new prospective family that the MFO’s endowment model approach would best suit their needs. In recent decades, there has been... View Details
    Keywords: China; Asia; Family Office; Shanghai; Financial Industry; Asset Management; Financial Instruments; Financial Management; Financial Strategy; Investment; Investment Return; Investment Portfolio; Human Capital; Family Business; Financial Services Industry; China; Shanghai
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    Cohen, Lauren, Hao Gao, River Ewing, and Grace Headinger. "Star Magnolia Capital: Becoming Experts at Finding Experts." Harvard Business School Case 223-038, October 2022.
    • March 2014
    • Teaching Note

    Tesla Motors

    By: Eric Van den Steen
    In mid-2013, Tesla Motors was riding a wave of success: It had launched its first really mass-produced car—the model S—to rave reviews, had recently raised first-year production targets, and had started taking orders for its next car, the Model X. Tesla seemed to be on... View Details
    Keywords: Technological Innovation; Production; Product Launch; Business Strategy; Auto Industry; United States
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    Van den Steen, Eric. "Tesla Motors." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 714-483, March 2014.
    • April 2019 (Revised July 2019)
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    Aperture Investors

    By: Krishna G. Palepu, George Serafeim and David Lane
    Aperture Investors is a startup investment firm that seeks to disrupt the asset management industry through competitive differentiation by charging investors primarily when its portfolio managers outperform the marketplace. Headed by Wall Street veteran Peter Kraus and... View Details
    Keywords: Business Model; Talent and Talent Management; Investment; Investment Funds; Asset Management; Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Marketing Channels; Emerging Markets; Partners and Partnerships; Motivation and Incentives; Financial Services Industry
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    Palepu, Krishna G., George Serafeim, and David Lane. "Aperture Investors." Harvard Business School Case 119-053, April 2019. (Revised July 2019.)
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    Professor McDonald studies how firms successfully navigate new markets. He examines how widely accepted strategic prescriptions can actually undermine managers’ attempts to develop a viable business model or stake out a defining new market position, and considers the... View Details
    • 11 Jan 2022
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