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- 21 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research
example, buying a ping-pong table, TV, or online movie subscription for the family to enjoy together might make you happier than purchasing a phone to use by yourself, he says. Also, the research shows spending money on other people makes...
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by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
strong digital payment infrastructure, and a willingness to pay subscription fees. At the same time, winning in U.S.’s education market, where most students attend public schools and many ed-tech companies are proliferating, is...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
CFO Letter - Annual Report 2014
ManageMentor as it shifts from packaged software to a subscription service model. The impacts of this accounting transition are expected to begin gradually diminishing in fiscal 2016. Executive Education revenue is forecasted to be...
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- 24 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 24
number of worldwide mobile cellular subscriptions reached 6 billion in 2011, reflecting a penetration rate of 87%. This note provides some industry context for the advent and opportunities associated with mobile broadband. Purchase this...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
12 Weeks of VC Summer: Remote Edition
advantage of the virtual internship is that none of this was physically constrained. I met with 50+ entrepreneurs over the course of 12 weeks across all different geographies and verticals, including mental health, subscription services,...
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- 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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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
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From the Chief Financial Officer - Annual Report 2020
revenue from HBSO, which continues to scale rapidly. Revenue from HBP remained flat with the prior year. For HBP, fiscal 2020 reflected the first full year of revenue from a new tiered subscription strategy that drove global...
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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
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
setting: TV broadcast station entry into local newspaper markets from 1945 to 1963. We show that after a TV station enters the newspaper market, newspaper firms with more multi-homing consumers had higher subscription prices, circulation,...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Nov 2014
- HBS Case
How Restaurants in Lima and Copenhagen Became Best in the World
chunk of money from hotels like Claridge's in London or the Mandarin Oriental in Tokyo that pay a subscription fee up front to have Noma set up shop. Norton: It's interesting to think about what cities he could go to where consumers would...
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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 considers an exception to its new...
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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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- 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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- 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
- 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
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
organization, which was renamed the Advisory Board Company in 1983, hit its stride by pioneering a membership model that charged clients an annual subscription rate for reports on the latest research on best practices. In 1997 the...
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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
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Life in Lockdown
business idea. Now. Propped up on her elbows and staring at her laptop as ideas furiously dance in her head, she considers all possibilities. What about a monthly subscription box sent to a woman just before her period? Tampons....
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- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
early-stage startup, offers an electronic signature application as a "freemium" product, i.e., users can upgrade from a free basic version to a premium version by paying a subscription fee. Using 9 months of data from 50,000...
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Sean Silverthorne