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- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
global and a series of regional B Climate Collectives designed to support businesses to share what they are learning on topics such as how to move to a regenerative business model. How might you explore ways to reimagine your business View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
At Cyberposium, Amazon's Bezos Debunks Internet Myths
world," he said. "Probably more so because more business models are possible online." Myth #5: It's easier for bricks-and-mortar retailers to extend their business. Using books as an example, Bezos noted that online sellers are... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Democratizing Data to Favor Farmers
analytics model the ways that different variables interact: the number of seeds planted per acre, the amount of nitrogen added to the soil, the crop rotation, and rainfall and tillage practices, among... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 05 Mar 2025
- News
Uncertain Terms
After Amar Bhidé (MBA 1979/DBA 1988) became an HBS assistant professor in 1988, then-dean John H. McArthur (MBA 1959/DBA 1963) gave him a copy of economist Frank Knight’s 1921 book Risk, Uncertainty and Profit. Knight’s idea that “uncertainty” must be distinguished... View Details
- 11 Mar 2020
- News
Making It Rain
business dashboards, and other tools for clients. The end results are “microweather” forecasts for clients ranging from major airlines to roofing companies to individual users through a smartphone app. “We’re the only private weather company that is capable of running... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Case Study: Alumni Advice for a Health Care Startup
businesses are switching their benefit packages to establish a selection of coverage and benefits. The model of every person contributing to the cost of a benefit that few need is diminishing. I favor direct-to-C-suite sales as a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Case Study: Something New
revenue share on transactions and provide curated fulfillment/logistics. —Tony Chao (MBA 2007) Stay the course and focus only on made-to -order, which is the best way to build a sustainable competitive advantage. The made-to-order model... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965
the raw bits and bytes," remarks Gerstner. A second strategy was built on the future of networked computing, a prescient decision made well before it became a prevalent business model with the rise of the Internet. Despite the... View Details
- 18 May 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Anjali Vaidya (MBA 2010)
an incredibly successful advertising model on desktop to mobile devices. I learned about the mobile ecosystem and its vocabulary: apps, developers, deep-linking, SDKs, APIs, server-side, device IDs, carriers, exchanges, SSPs, DSPs, DMPs,... View Details
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
shipping containers—necessitates a white cap and a lab coat. The units feature a double-door protocol that requires the exterior door to be closed before a second internal door can be opened. In the far corner of the building, a larger-scale View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
Gleason (MBA '97) is finding a way to make both a profit and a difference. Last fall, as a part of HBS associate professor Marco Iansiti's Managing Product Development course, Gleason created a model for a company that would employ... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Case Study: Growing the Family Business
competition (i.e., whoever reaches the threshold first will get the next center). — Tom Leung (MBA 2003) Consider a subscription model for center usage. You have the variable time slot idea with the hourly,... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
way it’s been for more than 100 years. Cars today, he says, are essentially produced the same way Ford made the Model T. “But what if we made cars differently?” Rogers gathers speed. What if we assumed that people didn’t care about steel?... View Details
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
the people had to figure out how to work around restrictive trade policies to make ends meet. “I do believe that entrepreneurial spirit is in our DNA. It’s just that, unfortunately, we haven’t had a model that fully uses it,” he says.... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
McDonald’s, and they wanted to come back. They just needed a reason. “There was a latent love for the brand,” says Kempczinski. “We had just been underdelivering on what their expectations were.” “In the end, we realized we just needed to... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
optimism could be considered another prerequisite for entry in an unpredictable industry that has surfaced only recently from a twenty-year depression. "The overall return is inadequate for the risk," concedes Kaiser, "yet the very nature of the challenge — the high... View Details