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  • 02 Jan 2024
  • Research & Ideas

10 Trends to Watch in 2024

The lightning-fast ascent of generative AI isn’t the only sea change on the horizon for businesses in the new year. The global economy is in flux as war, climate change, trade issues, and infrastructure problems demand attention. Many companies continue to struggle to... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • August 2001 (Revised October 2001)
  • Case

Shinsei Bank (A)

By: Michael Y. Yoshino and Perry Fagan
In a deal marking the first acquisition of a domestic Japanese financial institution by foreigners, a consortium of Western investors purchased the assets of the Long Term Credit Bank (LTCB) of Japan in March 2000. The new management renames the bank Shinsei Bank,... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Assets; Banks and Banking; Investment; Business or Company Management; Managerial Roles; Organizational Structure; Failure; Adaptation; Banking Industry; Japan
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  • 13 Nov 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Science Business: What Happened to Biotech?

sector has lost money during this period, new research shows. What went wrong? Professor Gary Pisano provides answers in the new book Science Business: The Promise, the Reality, and the Future of Biotech, in which he argues that the very View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Biotechnology
  • 28 Apr 2015
  • First Look

First Look: April 28

http://www.amazon.com/Strategy-Rules-Timeless-Lessons-Gates/dp/0062373951/ref=tmm_hrd_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1427236936&sr=8-1 April 2015 Harvard Business Review Leaders as Decision Architects: Structure Your Organization's Work to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Aug 2011
  • Research & Ideas

A New Model for Business: The Museum

many ways Facebook is taking over big chunks of what we used to do using more open technologies: web search, content consumption, even e-mail. Increasingly, Facebook is valuable to many people because it represents a more orderly alternative to the web. It's a... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

    Daniel M. Gilbane

    Dan Gilbane is a Lecturer of Business Administration presently teaching Deal Making in Real Estate in the Finance Unit.

    Dan is a 5th generation family leader of Gilbane, Inc., a construction and real estate development firms in the industry with a global... View Details

    • 2015
    • Chapter

    The Business Model: Nature and Benefits

    By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and John Heilbron
    This paper considers the nature of the business model and its strategic relevance to negotiations. We elaborate a substantive definition of the business model as decisions enforced by the authority of the firm; this definition enables the analysis of business models... View Details
    Keywords: Business Models; Value Capture; Value-Based Business Strategy; Ambivalent Value; Business Model; Value; Negotiation Deal
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    • 17 Oct 2023
    • HBS Case

    With Subscription Fatigue Setting In, Companies Need to Think Hard About Fees

    structure also has to be ‘right’ in order to be successful.” Benefiting from subscriptions while guarding against subscription fatigue For companies, the benefits of the subscription model include more stable and predictable revenue... View Details
    Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Consumer Products; Information; Information Technology
    • 2015
    • Working Paper

    The Business Model: Nature and Benefits

    By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and John Heilbron
    This paper considers the nature of the business model and its strategic relevance to negotiations. We elaborate a substantive definition of the business model as decisions enforced by the authority of the firm; this definition enables the analysis of business models... View Details
    Keywords: Business Models; Value Capture; Value-Based Business Strategy; Ambivalent Value; Business Model; Negotiation Deal
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    • 23 Jul 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    HBS Cases: How Wikipedia Works (or Doesn’t)

    Deletion" (AfD) review process if they believe the piece does not live up to those standards. After online debate about the worthiness of the piece, a Wikipedia administrator reviews the arguments and decides the fate of the article. The tension that they need to View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Publishing
    • 24 Jul 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: July 24, 2007

    generated by the primary product to improve the process efficiency of the by-product. We also examine the market structure where two firms practice by-product synergy, as well as conditions under which the by-product becomes the primary... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 03 Jan 2017
    • First Look

    January 3, 2017

    structure and liquidity policies—for tax or agency reasons—appears to be a key driver of their decision to simultaneously raise and pay out capital. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=48383 Online... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 22 Jul 2020
    • Blog Post

    Why We Started the HBS Black Investment Club

    INSPIRED BY RECENT EVENTS The protests against the unjust murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and countless others since have mobilized the nation to take a stand in support of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement and against the many policies that... View Details
    • 09 Apr 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    The Matchmaker of the Modern Economy

    financial regulatory structures in order to make it viable. Before ARD could offer its stock, for instance, it had to obtain a number of exemptions under the Investment Company Act of 1940 from the Securities and Exchange Commission. ARD... View Details
    Keywords: by Spencer E. Ante
    • April 2006 (Revised April 2007)
    • Case

    Endeca Technologies: New Growth Opportunities

    By: Paul A. Gompers and Kristin Perry
    Steve Papa, CEO of Endeca Technologies, must decide whether to expand into a new market with a new application of his company's technology. Endeca has experienced significant success with its information access software in the online retail industry, and in September... View Details
    Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Market Entry and Exit; Production; Organizational Structure; Partners and Partnerships; Opportunities; Expansion; Internet and the Web; Applications and Software; Information Technology Industry
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    • 12 Nov 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: November 12, 2008

    firms' ownership structures affect their earnings quality and long-term performance. Focusing on a unique sample of private firms for which there is financial data available in the years before and after their initial public offering... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 11 Dec 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: Dec. 11

    suggests that the effect of distance should vanish over time, a hypothesis that we confirm in the data and that distinguishes technology from other flows like goods or investments. We then structurally estimate the model. The parameter... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 03 Oct 2023
    • Research Event

    Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips

    that. Little kids, you know, they feel an emotion and they they scream. They - something's funny, they laugh. Something's makes them angry, they yell. That's the reason is because they're reacting according to the limbic system of their brain, this 40 million-year-old... View Details
    Keywords: by HBS Staff
    • May 2009 (Revised June 2011)
    • Case

    Going to the Oracle: Goldman Sachs, September 2008

    By: Clayton S. Rose and David Lane
    On September 23, 2008, in the midst of an historic crisis in the U.S. financial markets, Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway invested $5 billion in Goldman Sachs. Goldman CEO, Lloyd Blankfein, said: "We are pleased that given our longstanding relationship, Warren... View Details
    Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Financial Crisis; Capital Structure; Financial Liquidity; Financial Markets; Investment; Performance Capacity; Financial Services Industry; United States
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    • 07 Jul 2022
    • HBS Case

    How a Multimillion-Dollar Ice Cream Startup Melted Down (and Bounced Back)

    heights of dealing with Disney, to all the troubles that befell us years later, and ultimately to the bankruptcy. It comes from chasing that star and flying too close to the sun,” recalled Smith. A machine parts company from Oregon... View Details
    Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds