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- 30 Jul 2024
- News
Reddit’s Rise
Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian in 2005, Reddit had seen its share of CEO turnover as it grappled with questions about how to moderate content and build a sustainable advertising model without crushing the site’s notoriously independent... View Details
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Commencement 2018 Address | About
Springfest. The highlight of this event was a dunk tank. For those of you who have never seen a dunk tank, picture a large transparent tank of water with a person perched on a platform on the top. If you hit a target on the tank by... View Details
- 31 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?
Union.” The second book, one I am well into, is my colleague Shoshanna Zuboff’s magisterial The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. This book is one of genius. It provides a sweeping description the rise and impact of business models that are... View Details
- 05 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
Using Competition to Reform Healthcare
physician. A growing number of providers have begun to address several of the imperatives, but few, if any, providers are currently addressing all of them. The shift to a value-based model is self-reinforcing. As more of these imperatives... View Details
- 06 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Sorting Out the Patent Craze
explain a little bit about your research in this area? Josh Lerner: By the end of World War II, the corporate research laboratory model was widely adopted in the United States. A corporation would have a centralized facility where it... View Details
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
customer-to-customer communications promote different types of usage? We study these questions using two data sets and by developing a multivariate hierarchical Poisson hidden Markov model (HMM), which fits the data significantly better... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Mar 2020
- News
Can This Man Change the American Diet?
intentional, can you talk a little bit about that difference? Ayr: About everything we’re doing that works really well is the result of some engagement with customers. We’ve tested a lot of different things over the years. We’ve tested how to write the menu, which... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 15 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Health Care Conundrum
have been largely ineffective as they failed to address the root causes of the problems and have dealt instead with micromanaging and inspecting providers and forcing process compliance as opposed to achieving outcomes and results. The... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
organizations which has largely overlooked the changing design of executive power and the means of senior executives, who have more leeway to construct their roles than managers at any other organizational layer. F.A.R.T.: Top Secret! No... View Details
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
technologies and the eventual creation of a regulatory structure to prevent entrepreneurial chaos. LR: To follow up on that, Professor Spar, you've created a four-phase model of how companies develop along the technological frontier—from... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
of McAfee and EMC. “Security people recognize they are in the business of pattern recognition. It has happened before, but in a much more human way.” BrightPoint’s business model is built on sharing. The company makes software platforms... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 19 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Designing Cities for a Sustainable Future
On a June day in Manhattan with temperatures heading into the 90s, a straphanger named Mike is taking his customary subway ride to work. People are grumbling about the heat, but hey, it's summer, it's supposed to be hot, and besides, "Whaddya gonna do?" New Yorkers... View Details
- 11 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Financial Services 24/7
her Bank One account. "It is not uncommon for new delivery systems to compete with old ones," notes Dwight Crane. "But the Wingspanbank model takes that notion to unique extremes." Bank One realized that one way to beat — or at least... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Meal Plan
traffic, and large check sizes, because as Michael pointed out, you’re feeding a family. KP: In my opinion, the model for third-party delivery is broken and exists only because it’s been subsidized. I think... View Details
- 11 Sep 2018
- News
Bringing Government Up to Code
office, I noticed this large poster board covered in Post-Its that had all these details about the user experience of food stamp recipient in California. It was really complicated. Can you walk me through what I was looking at? Ingersoll:... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
An Eye to the East
firm.” “In developing economies, we have to reexamine the fundamental assumptions of what makes a good firm.” Realigning Priorities Other participants also remarked that the Asian economic crisis called for a reorientation of research priorities. Although the breakup... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Financial Services 24/7
offerings and easily decide to close her Bank One account. "It is not uncommon for new delivery systems to compete with old ones," notes Dwight Crane. "But the Wingspanbank model takes that notion to unique extremes." Bank One realized... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 16 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019
transaction would only prompt larger and more urgent strategic questions. Among them was the appropriate revenue model for Fluidity—whether to grow by providing its technical services to broker-dealers, by going into tokenized securities... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Apr 2002
- Lessons from the Classroom
Entrepreneurship: It Can Be Taught
opposed to changing your character. One case that students consistently rate highly centers on a Harvard MBA who spent the first ten years of his career working at General Electric and other large companies and then eventually buying his... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Business Model: How to Seize the White Space for Transformative Growth by Mark W. Johnson (MBA 1996) HBR Press In this revised, updated, and newly titled edition of Johnson’s 2010 Seizing the White Space, he provides an eminently practical framework for understanding... View Details