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- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Ask the Expert: Auto Pilot
need arise.) Lyft plans to ease the rest of its 23 million passengers into the new model gradually, city by city. Here, Kapoor takes your questions about what a self-driving future might look like. Illustration by Matt Chinworth How does... View Details
- 03 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Fierce Competitors Apple and Amazon Became ’Frenemies’ Over eReaders
Technology and Operations Management unit at Harvard Business School. And why would Apple ever allow a Kindle app in its App Store in the first place? "We all know historically Apple often says no to apps that directly compete with... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Disrupting criminal enterprises that prey on children
thinking into those endeavors, in the realm of child protection," says Brochu. She explains that criminal networks operate much like legitimate enterprises. As a result, her business degree has made a difference in her work, as has her... View Details
- 26 Feb 2025
- Blog Post
Exploring value-based care: My summer internship with Main Street Health
foundation, I wanted to pivot for the summer and gain hands-on operational experience at a startup. Main Street Health provided the perfect opportunity to do just that—working in a fast-paced, early-stage environment where I could see the... View Details
Keywords: Health Care
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Exploring value-based care: My summer internship with Main Street Health - Recruiting
into a Startup Before attending HBS, I worked in consulting, where I focused on health care payer/provider clients. While consulting gave me a strong analytical and industry foundation, I wanted to pivot for the summer and gain hands-on View Details
- 06 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
Meet the Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition (ETA) Club
What is Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition? Through ETA (search funds), individuals can acquire an existing business, become its CEO, and build a larger and more successful enterprise. The search fund model gives relatively... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
- 19 Aug 2017
- News
Getting Off the Well-worn Farm Track
preferences will be in the future, and to make sure that we have the land portfolio that caters to that," he told the New Zealand Herald. Citing the advent of synthetic meat and the growing demands of a world population expected to hit 10 billion by 2050, Carden noted... View Details
- 06 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 6, 2016
characteristics (competence, ambition) and is scarce and in demand on the job market. This research uncovers an alternative kind of conspicuous consumption that operates by shifting the focus from the preciousness and scarcity of goods to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Dec 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Walmart Defying Economic Gravity?
very large organizations. Several respondents commented on dangers to the Walmart business model. Benn Manning commented that "The real dangers for Walmart aren't competitors or new business models but are instead itself and how it... View Details
- 17 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Who is Boss in the Sharing Economy?
promoting themselves with custom-based profiles and setting their own fees, in direct contrast to the traditional consultancy model of companies like McKinsey & Co. that trade on the power of their corporate brand. A key question for... View Details
- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
with a demonstrably successful model enhances the ability to zig. However, pursuing transformative scale requires a deep understanding of the operational model and its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
HBS Impact Investing Fund Course: An Experiential Education in Social Financing
to complete the course. The businesses operate in a wide range of areas including food services, health care, manufacturing, and composting. Students have been split into groups of four to five and paired with a member of the faculty... View Details
- 19 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Ground-Floor Opportunities for Retail in India
brands in a country where small, individual stores selling no-name goods have been the rule for decades. But success doesn't arrive overnight. Biyani cited a few factors to consider when launching a retail operation in India: Foreign... View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
multi-mission athletes. They think obviously about operational success and scaling—all of the things that any startup is thinking about. But they're also thinking about creating a business model where the... View Details
- 11 Oct 2022
- News
Righting the Ship
pie, precisely because you didn’t have enough people. If you’re a site that’s larger, you’re automatically going to get a bigger share—even if, for example, you have all new facilities.” The model didn’t make sense to Stuckey. More... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 14 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
Deflategate and the Sustained Success of the New England Patriots
discussions that we’ve had” The case study, written by HBS’s Marco Iansiti, the David Sarnoff Professor of Business Administration and head of the Technology and Operations Management unit, focuses on the data analysis used by the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Faculty Books
incomes either among countries or within them. Inequalities of income and power emerge as a major societal issue alongside poverty, and the book develops alternative societal models based upon the degree of inequality in wealth and power.... View Details
- 10 Nov 2020
- News
Learning to Fight
development of brain cancer technology. Sontag thinks big. “If this model works for brain cancer, this model can work for other serious diseases,” he says of the Sontag Foundation’s multipronged approach. He... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 12 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
Creating Value Across Borders
Business sat down with HBS associate professor Walter Kuemmerle to discuss the entrepreneurial process in an international setting. Kuemmerle, a Novartis Fellow, holds a joint appointment in Entrepreneurial and Service Management and Technology and View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 07 Sep 2011
- News