yoga - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2017
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Yoga Makes Headway in Business Schools

01 Dec 2010
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HANNA: A yoga business and foundation. Photo courtesy Zobha A dedicated runner until motherhood stood everything on its head, Jamie Hanna (MBA ’98) told Chicago’s examiner.com (September 20, 2010) that by the time she had her second... View Details

Keywords: Yoga; Apparel Manufacturing; Manufacturing

12 May 2011
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A Game Plan in Trying Times

Keywords: yoga; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

01 Sep 2012
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Who Owns Yoga?

Annelena Lobb, Deshpandé examines the paths of two successful yoga teachers, each with a different approach to practicing and marketing the ancient discipline of yoga. There’s Bikram Choudhury, the founder of Bikram View Details

Keywords: Kim Girard; yoga; Arts, Sports, Language, Driving, and Other Schools; Educational Services; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

09 Oct 2017
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How It Happened: A Moneyish guide to yoga and barre’s rise from niche workout to lifestyle phenomena

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Why Thinking Small Is Key to Entrepreneurial Success

14 Nov 2013
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The mindfulness business

13 Nov 2014
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Going Against the Flow: Michelle Zatlyn, Cofounder of CloudFlare

01 Mar 2024
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Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books You Got This! A Straightforward, No-Nonsense Playbook for Crushing 130+ Workplace Challenges By Heidi Abelli (MBA 1993) Palmetto Publishing Stepping into the corporate world can feel like navigating a labyrinth, especially when... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Dec 2014
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3-Minute Briefing: Nagisa Manabe (MBA 1991)

Japanese food again. I study Iyengar yoga and own a yoga studio in Kingston, New Jersey. A few hours on the mat is a calming influence in anyone’s day. I also have two puppies. I find that if you spend 20... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Dec 1996
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Meditations on the Bottom Line

For many managers today, the greatest business challenges are no longer technical; rather, they involve figuring out how to put more "soul" into the workplace. For Belinda L. Bothwick (MBA '77), however, the new executive director of Kripalu Center for View Details

19 Dec 2016
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Harvard Students Help Mom-and-Pop Shops Get off the Ground

situation when you’re sitting and meeting with a small business owner and an employee walks out of the door and the owner has to go into the kitchen and work the grill.” Students from the class have worked with about a dozen small businesses over the past two... View Details

Keywords: retail

01 Dec 2019
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In My Humble Opinion: Taking Attendance

feeling to just belt it out, release, praise, and worship.” Rise and shine: “I get up at 4:30 or 5 because I’m a big believer in working out. I toggle back and forth between Peloton and doing a hot yoga workout to hip-hop music.” Press... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; public education; leadership; charter schools; career paths; work-life balance; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

14 Mar 2019
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The Merchant of Osaka

medicine. In 2000, Platanus opened the Yoga Urban Clinic. They logged 47 visitors on opening day, many of them supportive friends and family. Day two: 17 patients. Even as the numbers sank far below their break-even goal of 60, the... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

01 Jun 2017
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The End of the Noncompete Clause

image by Edmon de Haro image by Edmon de Haro Tech recruiters often tout enviable perks as they lure new employees, promising free meals, yoga classes, and unlimited vacation days. But those benefits can come at a cost: Sign on the dotted... View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos

15 Dec 2011
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An HBS gift guide

support the community that gives us our daily inspiration. Not just by providing quality, high-performance fitness wear, but also by giving opportunities to those within our community who might not otherwise have access to the necessary resources to help them become... View Details

Keywords: Bulletin Staff; holiday; gift giving; Manufacturing; Retail Trade

01 Dec 2013
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Curing Health Care

fundraising, IP, patent law, and the ins and outs of FDA and HIPAA regulations. Tecco and Gross refined their vision for Rock Health in a field study with HBS senior lecturer Bob Higgins. But first, Tecco had the experience of founding View Details

Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Management; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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