Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2018

In other words, they had great business models. Every successful company, whether it knows it or not, owes its success to its business model. Successful business models have an exceptionally strong CVP, and a stable, scalable system in which all the elements mesh together seamlessly while complementing each other.

Business Model 13

Business Model Technology Advertising Cost 13

N2Growth Blog

MARCH 11, 2013

Marissa Mayer is a case study in what NOT to do as a new CEO. A new chief executive must engender trust and confidence in the workforce, while going to school on understanding the culture and the business model. By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth.

CEO 410

CEO Constraint Maturity Case Study 410

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

Editor’s Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. Was Andrew right to suggest a hybrid model? Even my hometown can’t get our products right , Cameron thought as he chased Graham over to the playground.

Case Study 8

Case Study Business Model CFO Software 8

HR Digest

MAY 26, 2023

As per Lyon, generative AI will reshape workplace efficiency by offering novel business models and avenues for innovation and growth. But there’s a catch – they require proactive engagement from the existing workforce to adopt AI and transition from competition to essential requirements.

Productivity 52

Productivity Products Efficiency Human Capital 52

LDRLB

MAY 25, 2012

McKeown uses several case studies to illustrate his thesis: Blockbuster’s inability to adapt to consumer demands, which led to being outpaced by Netflix. Border’s inability to see the way online retailing forced a change in business models led to closing its doors and admitting defeat by Amazon.

Strategy 121

Strategy Strategic Planning Case Study Retail 121

LDRLB

MAY 25, 2012

McKeown uses several case studies to illustrate his thesis: Blockbuster’s inability to adapt to consumer demands, which led to being outpaced by Netflix. Border’s inability to see the way online retailing forced a change in business models led to closing its doors and admitting defeat by Amazon.

Strategy 117

Strategy Strategic Planning Case Study Retail 117

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Mapping out the start-up costs beforehand will prove viable for the sustainability of your business model. Alongside this, you can also pull out some case studies about your competitors from the internet to determine their strengths and weaknesses. Spend some time researching your competition.

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Webinar Marketing Strategy USP Document 137

Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Steven Haedrich, President New York Label & Box: Essentially, our business model is founded on Deming’s chain reaction , which says, when you improve quality, costs go down, because of less rework and more efficiencies. One of those articles looks at the efforts at New York Label & Box.

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Deming Company Case Study System 38

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Editor's Note This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. He also asked about the new subscription program, referencing a recent white paper on trends in subscription business models.

Case Study 9

Case Study White Paper Analysis Brand Management 9

Lead on Purpose

FEBRUARY 8, 2014

Businesses have three solutions to solve the problem of churn rate: Gain more clients than they lose, stop clients from leaving, or get more money from customers that stay. Customer churn is a natural part of any business model. The last option to prevent churn rate from sabotaging your business is to lower it all together.

Ryan 154

Ryan Incentives Long-term Price 154

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Editor's Note This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. The bike was targeted at price-sensitive riders, people who were willing to trade higher battery life and motor power for a lower price tag.

Case Study 9

Case Study Company Price Long-term 9

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Businesses that operate as a collection of independent departments often struggle with cohesion and finding common ground but those with HR as a strategic partner become efficient, uninterruptible success stories.

Strategic Planning 98

Strategic Planning Reputation Long-term Human Resources 98

Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Take the popular Harvard Business School case study that details how Hiroaki Aoki, the founder of the Benihana restaurant chain, inverted control to address several industry issues when the franchise was planning to enter the US market. Take a more recent example. The ride share company Uber.

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Film Leadership Franchising System 166

Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2016

” Editor's Note This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. Soledad Orellana, the market research consultant who’d arranged the session, concurred. “There are cameras everywhere in that room.”

Case Study 8

Case Study Price Brand Focus Group 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2018

The Doghouse philosophy was similar to 2 Proud Pups’, but its business model was different. But its CEO, Rajeev Gupta, an impressive guy who’d been installed by the company’s private equity owners, had asked her to keep the negotiations confidential.

Case Study 8

Case Study CEO Productivity Products 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Harvard Business School professor Mitchell Weiss debates the risks, rewards, and business models for mobile voting apps in his case study on “Voatz.”

Entrepreneur 10

Entrepreneur Case Study Business Model Productivity 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Editor’s Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. Once the patent expires next year,” he told the crowd in the Waldorf Astoria ballroom, “this business model will crumble – just like an old, stale granola bar.”.

Case Study 8

Case Study CFO Hedge PR 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2013

Editor''s Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. Starr was a straight-up rental car company, same business model as ours. Henry smiled at Tony, gloating a little. But this is different," Tony countered.

Case Study 8

Case Study Brand How To Beyer 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

But it was also potentially a business model weakness — it was the impossible problem that had prompted the contentious discussion at the office and then driven VV and Reza onto their bikes. Reza’s categorical opposition to charging fees was what had stalled the business-model conversation earlier in the day.

Case Study 8

Case Study Entrepreneur Business Model Follow-up 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

” Editor’s note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. It also has big brands behind it, but the business model makes more sense to me. “Stop acting like a teenager,” he joked.

Case Study 8

Case Study Travel Hotels NPV 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2015

Editor’s note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. And you’re talking about huge business-model changes that, even if we wanted to make them, would take months—maybe years!—to

Case Study 8

Case Study Retail Price Discount 8

Management Craft

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Its baffling model is a popular Harvard Business School case study and is admired by Peter Drucker, Bill Clinton, and Muhammud Yunus. Written by Pavithra Mehta and Suchitra Shenoy, Infinite Vision is the first book to probe Aravind's history and the practices and values that unleashed its phenomenal success.

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Books Newsletter Health Care Drucker 64

HR Digest

JANUARY 6, 2022

It’s literally a Harvard Business School case study in business model transformation, but when I think back on it, the impact on the entire organization has been amazing.

Software 98

Software Engineering Learning-by-Doing Diversity 98

Skip Prichard

MAY 10, 2021

We can become so close to our current product line, performance, or business model that we don’t see either the opportunity cost or a new vision for the future. In our book, we use efforts to promote recycling as a case study. First, we must expose the gap between where we are and where we want to be.

Constraint 110

Constraint PR Policies Tactics 110

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

Business visionary Peter Drucker termed Hank’s Business Tree TM as the most original business model of the past 40 years. The Business Tree TM is the only book that encompasses a full-scope business perspective, whereas the other books are micro-niche focused.

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Drucker Senge Strategic Planning Newsletter 62

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2018

It is much less obvious, and usually harder, to change the design of a current service system, introduce new customer experiences, or build a better business model — but the return on those investments may be much higher. Innovation needs to be considered in two ways: innovation capacity and innovation ability.

Budgeting 11

Budgeting Innovation Business Model Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2019

Harvard Business School professor Sunil Gupta explores the infiltration of Amazon into dozens of industries including web services, grocery, online video streaming, content creation and, oh, did we mention physical bookstores? Gupta is the author of the case study, “Amazon 2019.” What’s the big plan?

Succession 8

Succession Case Study Video Content 8

Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Instead of selling clinic visits, hospitalizations, or technologies to prospective patients, a health system organized around key clinical processes finds its business model driven toward population-level health. Correctly managed, they lead naturally to patient-centered care.

Deming 28

Deming Health Care System Cost 28

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2013

If you analyze this case study, what strikes you is that Sridhar''s first business idea was not fundable. He grew the business organically, with revenue and profits, not outside capital. Both of these case studies are of companies that have bootstrapped themselves to positions of great strength and negotiating leverage.

Incubator 8

Incubator Finance Entrepreneur Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2018

They also illuminated what could become a vast chasm between traditional privacy and security laws and regulations and rapidly evolving internet-related business models and activities. To help close this gap, technologists need to seriously reevaluate their relationship with government. Here are four ways to start.

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Policies Long-term Ethics Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Editor's Note This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. If you’d like your comment to be considered for publication, please be sure to include your full name, company or university affiliation, and email address.

Case Study 8

Case Study Decentralization CFO Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

When innovations threaten to disrupt an industry by replacing an old business model with a new one, incumbents need to invest in that model in order to survive. electric utility sector, in which the existing model for energy generation, which has prevailed for a century, may now be giving way to a new one.

Company 8

Company Disruptive Innovation Decentralization Software 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2012

To help shine some light on this topic, I've decided to do a series of blog posts of case studies of companies founded in the last 10-15 years that have made the transition from finding initial product-market fit to building a large, scalable, platform company.

P&L 13

P&L Lewin EBITDA Ries 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2013

We came together over a Skoll Foundation-funded project a few years ago to explore business models for social entrepreneurs. Your business model is stable. According to our research, social entrepreneurs seem to evolve their business models over five to 15 years, and income stability may take longer.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Business Model Case Study Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2017

The business model of Generation, a youth employment nonprofit founded by McKinsey & Company, where we both work, is based on that assertion. Three-quarters of our training is practicum, providing hands-on practice through role playing, case studies, and simulations. But it is possible to do better.

Training 10

Training ROI Attrition Metrics 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2011

A large division of this company had recognized the need to dramatically change its business model to survive and succeed in a changing market. The division head launched a major business reengineering effort, hired a leading consulting firm (and paid it millions), and dedicated his best people to the effort. What happened?

Process 14

Process Six Sigma Finance Short-term 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

But even a business model innovator like Zipcar must eventually respond to a changing world. To promote new mindsets and behaviors that grow the top line, the Talent Lab provides programs specifically geared to senior leaders whose role it is to shape culture and business strategy.

Innovation 8

Innovation Business Model Incubator Industry 8