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- 04 Jun 2001
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Future of the Subscription Model?
"float" from advance payment for subscriptions. Companies abandon the subscription model at their risk. Take the case of Xerox, for example. Many would argue that the company began its slippery slide toward obscurity when it ended the practice of View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- January 2005 (Revised June 2005)
- Case
Zipcar: Influencing Customer Behavior
By: Frances X. Frei and Hanna Rodriguez-Farrar
At Zipcar, customers share the use of cars and, as a result, rely on each other for their service experience. Customers are required to keep the car clean and the gas tank full and to return the car on time. Told from the perspective of two customers: Sal Fishman, who... View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Governance Controls; Behavior; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Consumer Behavior; Leasing; Transportation Industry; Service Industry; United States
Frei, Frances X., and Hanna Rodriguez-Farrar. "Zipcar: Influencing Customer Behavior." Harvard Business School Case 605-054, January 2005. (Revised June 2005.)
- 07 Apr 2015
- News
Warrior Spirit
Fortunately, they had already signed a lease on a larger property—but funds were running short. “Chatri pulled Kathleen and me aside and told us we had about two weeks of cash left,” recalls Loo. “That fired us up. Two weeks later—in... View Details
- 06 Nov 2018
- Research & Ideas
8 Ways to Make Olympic Stadiums Useful After the Games End
Stadium (with 85,600 seats) was reconfigured into Turner Field, capacity 50,000, over a period of seven months and a cost of $200 million. The retrofit worked well for 20 years, when the site served as home to the Atlanta Braves baseball team. However, it failed to... View Details
- Web
HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information
do not qualify as capital expenses are generally included in this category. Also included are expenses related to dining facilities and other campus services; costs associated with leased space for HBP, HBS Online, and the School’s global... View Details
- July 2009 (Revised September 2009)
- Case
The Blackstone Group: Merlin Entertainment
The Blackstone Group had conducted a roll-up of theme parks and attractions business in Europe. It was considering how to generate liquidity for its investors. Blackstone entered the theme parks and attractions business in Europe by acquiring a majority stake in... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Cost vs Benefits; Private Equity; Financial Liquidity; Investment Return; Risk Management; Leasing; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Europe
El-Hage, Nabil N., and Brenda W. Chia. "The Blackstone Group: Merlin Entertainment." Harvard Business School Case 210-014, July 2009. (Revised September 2009.)
- 10 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Commodity Busters: Be a Price Maker, Not a Price Taker
focus on the basis of your pricing. For example, when the Xerox machine was introduced, it was neither sold nor leased on a time basis. Instead, a lease meter was installed in each machine to count the... View Details
Keywords: by Benson P. Shapiro
- Web
HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information
improvement and renovation costs that do not qualify as capital expenses are generally included in this category. Also included are expenses related to dining facilities and other campus services, costs associated with leased space for... View Details
- 20 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
Gaps in the Historical Record: Development of the Electronics Industry
the replacement of electric power by electronic technology for its punched-card tabulators. In 1954 came its 650 computer, powered by vacuum tubes (an invention at the end of World War I), followed by its 1400, powered by a transistor that was first licensed by... View Details
- 10 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink
banks and to fast-food establishments such as Starbucks. Some outlet mall operators, like Value Retail, do a tremendous job in this area as well. In a development to take note of, both Best Buy and Sears have recently announced that they will View Details
- 01 May 2019
- What Do You Think?
What Should the Leadership of YouTube Do?
YouTube and creators’ sites. On the surface, YouTube’s business model appears to be the work of genius. But it has posed problems. One problem was lack of profitability. Wojcicki, who got to know Google’s founders when she leased her... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Case Study: The Credit Bureau
company Mobley to offer an alternative: an affordable way to furnish a home with stylish, quality pieces with a lease of 3 to 12 months, without the burden of ownership. Mobley’s entrée to the $230 billion market for furniture and home... View Details
- December 1997 (Revised September 2014)
- Exercise
Discount and Hawkins Exercise: Confidential Instructions for Landlord
This simulation involves a negotiation between a real estate developer and a prospective anchor tenant in a proposed shopping center. Students are assigned roles, given confidential information, and asked to try to break the impasse over the "use, assignment, and... View Details
Wheeler, Michael A. "Discount and Hawkins Exercise: Confidential Instructions for Landlord." Harvard Business School Exercise 898-130, December 1997. (Revised September 2014.)
- December 1997 (Revised September 2014)
- Exercise
Discount and Hawkins Exercise: Confidential Instructions for Tenant
This simulation involves a negotiation between a real estate developer and a prospective anchor tenant in a proposed shopping center. Students are assigned roles, given confidential information, and asked to try to break the impasse over the "use, assignment, and... View Details
Wheeler, Michael A. "Discount and Hawkins Exercise: Confidential Instructions for Tenant." Harvard Business School Exercise 898-131, December 1997. (Revised September 2014.)
- October 2011
- Case
Corporate Avenue
By: Arthur I Segel, Michael Shih-ta Chen and Dawn Lau
Segel, Arthur I., Michael Shih-ta Chen, and Dawn Lau. "Corporate Avenue." Harvard Business School Case 812-056, October 2011.
- October 1984 (Revised June 1989)
- Case
Investco Building
Poorvu, William J. "Investco Building." Harvard Business School Case 385-169, October 1984. (Revised June 1989.)
James C. Donnell
Donnell had grown the assets of Ohio Oil to $108 million, and Ohio Oil owned or operated under lease 5 million acres of oil and gas producing lands and drilled approximately 42,000 wells. View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
Richard S. Reynolds
times of the Depression. The Reynolds Corporation became a serious competitor in the aluminum industry having won leases on huge government production facilities, and is known for the popular aluminum foil brand, Reynolds Wrap. View Details
Keywords: Metals
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
We Have Liftoff
HBS entrepreneurs who want to remain plugged into the Harvard network after graduation have a new home on campus. The Launch Lab—located directly across from the i-lab on Western Avenue—is now open to startups with recent alumni from any Harvard school, offering teams... View Details
- 06 May 2019
- News
Are You Ready for Veggie Fast-Casual?
The founder and former CEO of Panera Bread has a new lease on life. Life Alive, that is. And it’s not a lease—he’s the owner. Ron Shaich (MBA 1978), has tapped his $300 million fund, Act III Holdings, to buy and reimagine a mini-chain of... View Details