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Go Downstream: The New Profit Imperative in Manufacturing
Business models Magazine ArticleNow 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. -
Inside Mount Sinai's Hospital-at-Home Program
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleIt led to fewer readmissions and complications. -
Coronavirus Is Widening the Corporate Digital Divide
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleDigital transformation has become a necessity-and it's separating the organizational haves from the have-nots. -
What Happened When Linkin Park Asked Harvard for Help with Its Business Model
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleA look inside an unlikely partnership. -
How Legacy Companies Can Pivot to a Platform Model
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleLessons from several firms who have made the switch. -
Break Your Industry’s Bottlenecks
Strategy Magazine ArticleWhere to find the big changes that will transform your business -
6 Strategic Concepts That Set High-Performing Companies Apart
Strategy Digital ArticleLessons from Microsoft, NVIDIA, Netflix, Tesla, and others. -
Do You Really Want to Be an eBay?
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleLured by the success of marketplaces such as eBay, many companies have tried operating as multisided platforms, which let buyers and sellers transact... -
What the Pandemic Means for Health Care’s Digital Transformation
Technology and analytics Digital ArticleThree key priorities identified by leading CIOs. -
The Transformer's Dilemma
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleInterviews with top executives reveal how to manage a new digital business alongside your core offering. -
Innovation as a Last Resort
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleManagers are often told they should be swinging for the fences, hoping for the next blockbuster product or business model. In fact, breakthrough innovation... -
Reinvent Your Business Before It’s Too Late
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A Survival Guide for Startups in the Era of Tech Giants
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleYou have options other than getting swallowed up or stomped out. -
Why It Pays to Be a Category Creator
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleCompanies that create new products and new business models--think of Apple's iTunes and Microsoft's Xbox Live--experience much greater growth. -
Why Business Models Matter
Finance and investing Magazine ArticleA good business model begins with an insight into human motivations and ends in a rich stream of profits. -
How to Create a Winning Post-Pandemic Business Model
Strategy Digital ArticleLessons from six companies that used market insights to transform. -
What It Takes to Build a Startup into a Brand
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleLessons from Howard Schultz, Leslie Wexner, and Brunello Cucinelli. -
Who Are the Gurus' Gurus?
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleTwo 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... -
New Business Models in Emerging Markets
Disruptive innovation Magazine ArticleTargeting the middle market can be lucrative—but companies won’t be able to deliver unless they start from scratch. -
2001 HBR List: Breakthrough Ideas for Today's Business Agenda
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleBusiness 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...
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Multifactor Models
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Students evaluate the performance of four mutual funds and compute the cost of capital for two companies using fixed benchmarks, the CAPM, and a multifactor... -
Carousell: Growing a Peer-to-Peer Mobile App Business by Building a Community
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details It was end-2019 and seven years into the founding of Carousell, a Singapore-headquartered peer-to-peer online classified advertisements marketplace started... -
AM FRESH in 2020
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Enpara.com: Digital Bank at a Crossroad
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details In March 2017, Elsa Pekmez Atan (MBA 2004), was wondering about the future of Enpara.com, a digital-only banking platform of QNB Finansbank. Since its... -
America Movil: The Making of a Mexican Global Latina
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details This case study analyses the swift international expansion and transformation of América Móvil, a Mexican Global Latina that has been able to extend its... -
Egghead to Egghead.com (A)
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details Over the course of 12 months in 1997 and 1998, Egghead senior management decided to shut down its 180 brick-and-mortar retail stores and move to an electronic... -
Alltech
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details Alltech was a Lexington, Kentucky-based producer of supplements for animal feed, with revenues of over $2 billion (projected to reach $3 billion in 2018),... -
AT&T Versus Verizon: A Financial Comparison
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details This case asks students to prepare a report comparing the financial and operating performance of AT&T and Verizon. Taking the perspective of a communications... -
Balancing the Yin and Yang of Organizational Ambidexterity at XRM Vision: Tug-of-war over Exploration-Exploitation Practices
Management Case Study11.95View Details The case presents the real-life situation of XRM Vision, an SME IT consulting firm specializing in the design and implementation of CRM solutions. Like... -
Apple Computer, 2006
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Apple has reaped the benefits of its innovative music player, the iPod. However, its PC and server business continue to hold small market share relative... -
NIO: Developing a Business Model in China
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details By 2018, NIO Inc. was more than just a car company. By providing high-performance smart electric vehicles and the ultimate user experience, NIO had shown... -
Eyeo's Adblock Plus: Consumer Movement or Advertising Toll Booth?
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details The case centers on Eyeo GmbH, a German software development company, whose main product is Adblock Plus, the world's leading ad blocking browser extension... -
TenAlpina Tools: The Entrepreneur's Dilemma
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Giulia Ferrato, a recent MBA graduate, has developed a high-quality, lightweight titanium piton, a tool used in mountain climbing. She is currently contracting... -
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing in a Downturn, Expanded Edition (Paperback + Ebook)
Leadership & Managing People Special Offer34.95View Details How do the most resilient companies survive--and even thrive--during a slowdown? If you read nothing else on surviving a tough economy and coming back... -
MYSQL Open Source Database in 2006 (B)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details MySQL, an open source software firm, grew from a small $10 million company in 2004 into a successful $60 million business by 2006. As it had anticipated,... -
World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Nearly all environmental organizations have a similar aim: to stop the degradation of the natural environment. However, the strategies which environmental... -
Fluidity: The Tokenization of Real Estate Assets
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details In December 2018, the blockchain startup Fluidity was about to participate in its first tokenization deal, which would create digital access to property... -
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing in a Downturn (with bonus article "Reigniting Growth" By Chris Zook and James Allen)
24.95View Details How do the most resilient companies survive--and even thrive--during a slowdown? If you read nothing else on preparing for a tough economy and coming... -
Angie's List: Ratings Pioneer Turns 20
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details In 1995, before people "googled" or "yelped," Angela Hicks (HBS, 2000) was establishing her Angie's List as a pioneer in the accumulation and dissemination... -
Disruption in Detroit: Ford, Silicon Valley, and Beyond (B)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details The (A) case focuses on the Ford Motor Company in Spring 2016 and how its then-CEO, Mark Fields, and his senior management team should best respond to...
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Go Downstream: The New Profit Imperative in Manufacturing
Business models Magazine ArticleNow 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. -
How to Build Your Digital Intelligence (HBR Special Issue)
Leadership & Managing People Magazine Issue19.95View Details Harvard Business Review Special Issues are timely, single-theme collections of HBR articles written by some of the world's leading management scholars... -
Multifactor Models
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Students evaluate the performance of four mutual funds and compute the cost of capital for two companies using fixed benchmarks, the CAPM, and a multifactor... -
Inside Mount Sinai's Hospital-at-Home Program
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleIt led to fewer readmissions and complications. -
Coronavirus Is Widening the Corporate Digital Divide
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleDigital transformation has become a necessity-and it's separating the organizational haves from the have-nots. -
What Happened When Linkin Park Asked Harvard for Help with Its Business Model
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleA look inside an unlikely partnership. -
How Legacy Companies Can Pivot to a Platform Model
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleLessons from several firms who have made the switch. -
Carousell: Growing a Peer-to-Peer Mobile App Business by Building a Community
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details It was end-2019 and seven years into the founding of Carousell, a Singapore-headquartered peer-to-peer online classified advertisements marketplace started... -
AM FRESH in 2020
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details -
Enpara.com: Digital Bank at a Crossroad
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details In March 2017, Elsa Pekmez Atan (MBA 2004), was wondering about the future of Enpara.com, a digital-only banking platform of QNB Finansbank. Since its...