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- 01 Dec 2005
- News
A Matter of Opinion
much stronger grasp of business fundamentals, such as how to read a balance sheet, apply price-earnings and other ratios, and be an effective manager generally. One insight he gained was that a Nation reader was really a potential “customer” for life, with “value” far...
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- 23 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn
acquisition and retention, costs and productivity, firm scope, pricing, growth platforms, etc. Some of the finest examples of business model innovations, whether it is IBM's outsourcing of key elements of the IBM PC or Salesforce.com's offering of software as a View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Reality to News Biz: Drop Dead
newspapers rush to post so much of their hard-won content when they survived on newsstand and subscription dollars? Did they really think the dog was going to give back that bone? “The quid pro quo of payment for services rendered...
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- 11 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #2: Sam Steyer, Greenwork
subscription fee (with various tiers) to have access to the platform. The company-program connection provides companies with the advantage of shaping the educational pipeline. In turn, Greenwork approaches trade schools and workforce...
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- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
resource management, which emphasized job rotation and minimal hierarchy. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/812134-PDF-ENG RentJuice Thomas R.Eisenmann and Liz KindHarvard Business School Case 811-069 RentJuice, founded in mid-2008, provided a View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
asked his students. The class quickly reached consensus: Parker’s great, the idea is great, the context is pretty good—despite volatile interest rates—but from an investor’s point of view, the deal stinks. Well, true enough—except that because Parker had deferred rent,...
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Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 30 Jan 2019
- What Do You Think?
Who Will Measure up to These Two Remarkable Leaders?
of the future coming? What do you think? Original Column The decade of the 1980s saw widespread subscription to the notion that there were two “generic competitive strategies” aimed at achieving industrywide success: those that provided...
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- 10 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017
“particularly on high cost of failure situations where good information on potential service providers is correspondingly of high value.” Angie's List had a paid subscription model as it charged “members” for access to the information...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
most people had the best market data. But not anymore, says Dubrowski. Today, his 22-person firm pays upward of $400,000 a year for subscription data services, the same services that are available to large and small industry participants...
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- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
experience, excited theatergoers by experimenting with new venues, and received critical recognition for the breadth and range of the work she staged. Paulus also recognized the changing realities in theater, which included dropping View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018
of Microsoft, and the rest of the senior leadership team faced a set of fundamental choices. The firm had opportunities to serve customers in ways that would be associated with higher growth but lower margin. Some of these opportunities involved a shift from perpetual...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Disruption: The Art of Framing
their own work processes even as they collaborate. The New York Times Company has had some success here: NYTimes.com is now the leading source of print subscription sales. And the company's print and on-line sales forces have collaborated...
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by Clark Gilbert & Joseph L. Bower
- Web
Supplemental Financial Information - Financial Report 2018
million. International sales were up nearly 15 percent, comprising 36 percent of HBP’s total annual revenues. After three consecutive years of zero growth, Harvard Business Review (HBR) group sales were up nearly 6 percent from fiscal 2017, when the View Details
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities
could charge customers a premium for access to these "pay TV" channels, above the monthly subscription charge for what came to be known as the "basic tier" of broadcast channels. The first forays into pay TV were...
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- 29 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 29, 2008
subsidiary of Sony Japan, they now develop a wide range of digital content offerings for mobile phone users, mostly original content "made in Japan"—including keitai novels. But can SDE's subscription model compete in a market...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
HBS - Financials | From the CFO
relevant issues such as advancing racial equity, teaching in hybrid and virtual environments, and the impact of the pandemic on the future of work. The group's flagship publication, Harvard Business Review (HBR), continued to generate value from its tiered View Details
- 17 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 17
founders debated whether to stay focused on growing Bazaart's user base and worry about driving revenue later, or try and monetize the app (by introducing in-app purchases, native advertising, or moving to a subscription model) and bring...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
integrated and strategic e-commerce strategy, and leverage the NGS relationship with its members—currently defined as magazine subscribers, since a subscription comes with Society membership. Putting the final touches on the position and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
the best market data. But not anymore, says Dubrowski. Overpricing, not overbuilding, is the market's biggest problem. Today, his twenty-two-person firm pays upward of $400,000 a year for subscription data services, the same services that...
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CFO Letter - Annual Report 2016
shift by Harvard ManageMentor® from packaged software to a subscription service model. The upcoming year’s revenue growth at Executive Education will compare with the strong results in fiscal 2016. Philanthropic revenues will remain vital...
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