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- 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
- 09 Aug 2016
- Blog Post
Startup Balancing Act
a smaller and, potentially, leaner organization? 2. Would I enjoy working in an operating company rather than a professional services firm? All of this takes us back to my first day. After a mere few hours in the office, I was presenting... View Details
Keywords: Health Care
- 19 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard
executives. I would suggest that boards need to regularly ask themselves whether they have a firm grasp on the operating style and role modeling behaviors of their senior leadership teams. If after candid... View Details
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
organizational adoption of practice variants that differ in their degree of customization. Working Papers X-CAPM: An Extrapolative Capital Asset Pricing Model By: Barberis, Nicholas, Robin Greenwood, Lawrence Jin, and Andrei Shleifer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Case Study: The Credit Bureau
—Simon Pellas (MBA 2019) I’ve spent quite a bit of time on the B2B2C model in this industry. There are many stakeholders: Brokers will only adopt tech that will change the listing price or their fee structure. A free SaaS tool with... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
service DayJet, launched in October 2007, placed an up-front order for 239 Eclipse 500s and used a chancier, less profitable per-seat pricing model for its Florida-based operations. The company ran out of money and ceased View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
The Ambidextrous Organization
time, they maintain tight links across units at the senior executive level. In other words, they manage organizational separation through a tightly integrated senior team. Such “ambidextrous organizations” provide a practical and proven View Details
- 30 Oct 2018
- News
Paths of Victory
600 employers and 80,000 job seekers. In addition to offering on-demand workers through its marketplace, Apli’s chatbot and machine-learning models are now helping companies with mass recruiting of permanent employees. “Through Apli,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Online Entrepreneur
growth of social media as an important business tool, “Communispace offers the only social-networking model with a proven track record of providing real business value and competitive advantage to businesses.” The firm, based in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Check In
this. Our service model at Kimpton was not service per se, it was care. What does the guest on the other side of the desk need right now? How can we properly care for them? If people are traveling right now, what they’ll need more than... 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
- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
outdated. Instead, innovations are increasingly brought to the market by networks of firms, selected for their unique capabilities, and operating in a coordinated manner. This new model demands that firms... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 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
- June 1999 (Revised October 1999)
- Case
Eli Lilly, 1998 (B): Emerging Global Organization
By: Michael Y. Yoshino and Thomas W. Malnight
Examines major issues faced by Eli Lilly as it evaluates the appropriateness of a focused matrix organization with extensive use of cross-functional teams. View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Geography; Globalized Firms and Management; Growth and Development; Knowledge; Management Teams; Product; Organizations; Pharmaceutical Industry
Yoshino, Michael Y., and Thomas W. Malnight. "Eli Lilly, 1998 (B): Emerging Global Organization." Harvard Business School Case 399-174, June 1999. (Revised October 1999.)
- 07 Jan 2022
- News
Learning to Fight
helped more than 1,200 people around the United States. 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... View Details
- 23 Feb 2015
- News
Preserving a Musical Tradition; Inspiring Future Generations
participants, had 10 students, ages 7 to 15, and a long wait list. The students’ enthusiasm wowed de Menil. So did the logistics. Two bachata musicians traveled twice a month from Santa Domingo—125 miles away—to teach, a model that was... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
patients than any other hospital in the state—to bend without breaking under the pressure of the pandemic. Professor Robert Huckman is an economist and health care researcher who serves as unit head for Technology and Operations... 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
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Innovative Loan Fund Yields Big Returns
Through its use of Harvard’s innovative Green Campus Loan Fund, HBS has cut energy expenditures and provided a model for conservation-minded schools around the University to follow. The loan fund provides capital for projects that reduce... View Details
- September 2000 (Revised January 2016)
- Case
Netflix (2000)
The CEO of a successful Internet start-up must decide whether to delay the company's initial public offering following a significant decline in the NASDAQ market during the spring of 2000. The company's CFO is asked to reevaluate the company's projected cash flow needs... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Contracts; Initial Public Offering; Cash Flow; Service Delivery; Financial Strategy; Web Services Industry
Mayfield, E. Scott. "Netflix (2000)." Harvard Business School Case 201-037, September 2000. (Revised January 2016.)