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- 19 Apr 2017
- Blog Post
7 Ways MBA Students Use Baker Library
year student reached out to me requesting an informational interview. He was involved at the time with an Australian firm that streamed videos to the academic market. I met with him and spoke about licensing models to the academic market...
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- 02 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t
conveniently sends monthly samples to their home; purchase them for the first time through Amazon, where prices are often cheaper; and finally when they know which products they like, they can replenish them direct from cosmetics manufacturers such as Kiehl's, which...
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by Michael Blanding
- 09 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 9, 2018
minutes at minimal cost with no branding or design skills required. As it sets out to raise its Series B, the founders make some critical changes to their business model, moving to a subscription model and...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 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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- 12 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 12, 2016
Stick to the Strategy or Make the Sale? A Manufacturer of High-tech Streetlights Considers an Exception to Its New Subscription Model By: Weiss, Mitchell Abstract—A manufacturer of high-tech streetlights...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
Working Knowledge (www.hbsworkingknowledge.hbs.edu). We are excited that the site not only provides alumni with substantive, faculty-driven content but also serves as a vehicle for career services and networking. In addition, HBS Working Knowledge offers a low-cost...
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Edmund A. Hajim (MBA '64)
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Case Study: Alumni Advice for a Health Care Startup
family members and stakeholders. Wellthy launched nationwide in September 2015 as a private-pay, direct-to-consumer subscription service, with plans ranging in price from $100 a week for those who need help with finite projects to $200 a...
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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”...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 13
publicly stated goals. Publisher's link: http://hbr.org/2014/05/how-to-outsmart-activist-investors/ar/1 August 2013 Harvard Business Review Making 'Freemium' Work: Many Start-ups Fail to Recognize the Challenges of This Popular Business View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
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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- 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...
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by Martha Lagace
- 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...
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April White
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
understood. We model how consumers choose video content provision among over-the-air (OTA), paid subscription to cable or satellite, and online streaming (also known as over-the-top or OTT). We apply our...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
From the CFO - Financial Report 2015
From the Chief Financial Officer The School’s economic model proved its strength in fiscal 2015. Harvard Business Publishing (HBP) and Executive Education contended with a unique set of short-term revenue challenges, and Harvard Business...
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- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Disruption: The Art of Framing
a still-viable business model while simultaneously trying to develop a new platform for growth, it gets pulled in two directions, and both efforts underperform. Kodak, for example, needs to continue to focus on traditional competitors...
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by Clark Gilbert & Joseph L. Bower
- 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 View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
examine the psychological mechanism explaining the relationship between bad weather and increased productivity. Our findings support our proposed model and suggest that worker productivity is higher on bad rather than good weather days....
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Carmen Nobel
- 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
- Web
Supplemental Financial Information - Financial Report 2015
Financials Supplemental Financial Information Statement of Activity & Cash FlowsConsolidated Balance SheetSupplemental Financial Information page 1 of 2 Revenues At the core of the School’s economic model is internally funded faculty...
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- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
startups, suggesting a time of increased experimentation in the economy. We provide a model of investment into new ventures that demonstrates why some places, times, and industries should be associated with a greater degree of...
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Sean Silverthorne