Business models

Now that providing services is more lucrative than making products, the old foundations for success in manufacturing are crumbling. Smart manufacturers are creating new business models to capture profits at the customer’s end of the value chain.

It led to fewer readmissions and complications.

Digital transformation has become a necessity-and it's separating the organizational haves from the have-nots.

A look inside an unlikely partnership.

Lessons from several firms who have made the switch.

Where to find the big changes that will transform your business

Lessons from Microsoft, NVIDIA, Netflix, Tesla, and others.

Lured by the success of marketplaces such as eBay, many companies have tried operating as multisided platforms, which let buyers and sellers transact...

Three key priorities identified by leading CIOs.

Interviews with top executives reveal how to manage a new digital business alongside your core offering.

Managers are often told they should be swinging for the fences, hoping for the next blockbuster product or business model. In fact, breakthrough innovation...

Watch Out for Those S Curves

You have options other than getting swallowed up or stomped out.

Companies that create new products and new business models--think of Apple's iTunes and Microsoft's Xbox Live--experience much greater growth.

A good business model begins with an insight into human motivations and ends in a rich stream of profits.

Lessons from six companies that used market insights to transform.

Lessons from Howard Schultz, Leslie Wexner, and Brunello Cucinelli.

Two hundred of today's leading management thinkers were asked to identify their gurus. The result is an illuminating list, notable for some of the less...

Targeting the middle market can be lucrative—but companies won’t be able to deliver unless they start from scratch.

Business is shaped by ideas. But how do you separate enduring ideas from passing fancies? In this, the first edition of the annual HBR List, our editors...