Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 25, 2013

While most startups who set up pages on Kickstarter, Indiegogo or a host of other crowdfunding sites are looking to hit a specific goal and then get started making their project a reality, a new crop of businesses are using the platform for as a wholly different business model: selling their product before it exists.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2013

That said, you kind of have to admire the brilliance of the business model. The Future of the Business Travel (The Boston Consulting Group). Most millennials aren't quite full-fledged business travelers, according to The Boston Consulting Group, but that's likely to change in the next 10 years or so.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

For example, as a designer/writer, my skills are not well applied to bookkeeping or financial management. For example, when my book publisher was hit by Hurricane Wilma, (thus my upcoming book was literally blown away), I turned to graphic design where I had received all my training and contacts—but with a much different business model.

Press Release 100

Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2016

For example, Amazon’s biggest profit generator is Amazon Web Services, which turned its back office computing assets and capabilities into a fast-growing, highly profitable new business serving enterprises’ computing power and data storage needs. Could digital technology change your target customer?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2018

If computer technology has the capacity to simplify and streamline transaction costs, more and more work can be done through these smart-contract arrangements, making traditional human-managed firms obsolete. Firms create value by managing tensions between competing priorities. Here are four areas where firms excel.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Identifying this so-called “growth gap” is critical, because the bigger the gap, the more a company needs to look beyond its current offerings, markets, and business models to find growth opportunities. To assess such risks to your business, consider the following six questions: Is customer loyalty decreasing?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

See More Videos > See More Videos > Blockchain’s properties — transparency, immutability, and security — make it reliable and trustworthy for applications such as supply chain management, smart contracts, financial reporting, the Internet of Things, the management of private (e.g.,

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. Yet executives are often reluctant to place sustainability core to their company’s business strategy in the mistaken belief that the costs outweigh the benefits. On the contrary, academic research and business experience point to quite the opposite.

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