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- 16 Aug 2024
- In Practice
Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?
resource allocation. Given the trend toward more politically similar leadership teams that we observe in the data, these concerns are particularly relevant this election season. Elisabeth Kempf is the Jaime View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- April 2009 (Revised March 2014)
- Teaching Note
Evan Williams: From Blogger to Odeo (A) and (B)
By: Noam T. Wasserman
Teaching Note for [809088]. View Details
- 27 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
December 2017 Journal of Creative Behavior In Pursuit of Everyday Creativity By: Amabile, Teresa M. Abstract—Creativity researchers have long paid careful attention to individual creativity, beginning with studies of well-known geniuses... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- August 1991 (Revised March 1993)
- Case
Champion International Corp.: Timber, Trade, and the Northern Spotted Owl
Champion's forest products division owns timberlands, sawmills, and plywood mills in the Pacific Northwest. The listing of the northern spotted owl as an endangered species, and restrictions on exports of logs from state-owned lands, have disrupted the stumpage, log... View Details
Keywords: Science-Based Business; Natural Environment; Product Marketing; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Government and Politics; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Strategy; Trade; Decisions; Management Teams; Forest Products Industry; North and Central America
Reinhardt, Forest L. "Champion International Corp.: Timber, Trade, and the Northern Spotted Owl." Harvard Business School Case 792-017, August 1991. (Revised March 1993.)
- Web
IFC: Europe; Decarbonization and Sustainable Production - Course Catalog
breadth of opportunities. This 3:10 video will give you a taste for 2024 visits. While we plan to visit some of the sites shown here, we plan to incorporate changes for 2025 as we explore new areas. Paper Preparation and Presentation... View Details
- 21 Nov 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017
socially appropriate than achieving overall equity. Furthermore, individuals care more about achieving equity in time than equity in money. Narrow bracketing of equity concerns and more inequity aversion in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Military and the MBA: Chris Howard (MBA 2003)
the next day I reported to the Defense Intelligence Agency in Washington, D.C. Within a few weeks I was in Afghanistan. I was the senior human intelligence officer on the military side for overt collection. I had a team of 15 in civilian... View Details
- November 2005 (Revised December 2016)
- Case
Bally Total Fitness (A): The Rise, 1962–2004
By: John R. Wells, Elizabeth A. Raabe and Gabriel Ellsworth
From a single, modest club in 1962, Bally Total Fitness had grown to become—in management’s words—the “largest and only nationwide commercial operator of fitness centers” in the United States in 2004. Bally had faced its share of challenges, but the last couple of... View Details
Keywords: Bally Total Fitness; Fitness; Gyms; Health Clubs; Chain; Securities And Exchange Commission; Paul Toback; Weight Loss; Exercise; Contracts; Personal Training; Retention; Accounting; Accounting Audits; Accrual Accounting; Finance; Advertising; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; For-Profit Firms; Customers; Customer Satisfaction; Public Equity; Financing and Loans; Revenue; Revenue Recognition; Geographic Scope; Multinational Firms and Management; Health; Nutrition; Business History; Lawsuits and Litigation; Management; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development Strategy; Marketing; Operations; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Public Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business Strategy; Competition; Corporate Strategy; Expansion; Segmentation; Trends; Cost Management; Profit; Growth and Development; Leadership Style; Five Forces Framework; Private Ownership; Opportunities; Motivation and Incentives; Competitive Strategy; Health Industry; United States; Illinois; Chicago
Wells, John R., Elizabeth A. Raabe, and Gabriel Ellsworth. "Bally Total Fitness (A): The Rise, 1962–2004." Harvard Business School Case 706-450, November 2005. (Revised December 2016.)
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
team that was initially hired by Cleveland's business leaders to study the community's problems. He subsequently served as executive director of Cleveland Tomorrow, an organization of fifty CEOs who delineated new strategies View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 07 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Personalized Entrepreneurial Finance and Other VC Trends
industries in different ways. Venture capital, for example, was once mostly reserved for institutional investors backed by endowments and pension funds. Today, it increasingly includes individual investors... View Details
- 23 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
It’s Called ‘Price Coherence,’ and It’s Surprisingly Bad for Consumers
to pay two dollars and raise menu prices." Edelman and Wright say a "coordination failure" keeps buyers from seeing the forest for the trees—that is, they don't consider how their View Details
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Reimagining Capitalism: Business and Big Problems - Course Catalog
contributing to a flowering of individual freedom and possibility that would have been unimaginable to our ancestors. Today, however, increasing global crises are posing the greatest threat this economic... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Action Plan: Whole Sale
individualized content that is less permanent. Think TikTok, not Facebook: “Understanding how to talk to them using their technology and their language is really important.” Be intentional about your values.... View Details
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4.5 University-Wide Statement on Rights and Responsibilities - MBA
https://provost.harvard.edu/university-wide-statement-rights-and-responsibilities The central functions of an academic community are learning, teaching, research and scholarship. By accepting membership in the University, an View Details
- March 1995 (Revised April 1995)
- Case
NIKE Inc. in the 1990s (B): Strategy and Management Changes, 1993-1994
By: Robert J. Dolan
Describes Nike's performance to 1994 and describes challenges facing the new president and COO, Thomas Clarke. View Details
Dolan, Robert J. "NIKE Inc. in the 1990s (B): Strategy and Management Changes, 1993-1994." Harvard Business School Case 595-103, March 1995. (Revised April 1995.)
- 10 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
Founding a Company at the Intersection of Medicine and Technology
way to go as a team and as a business, but the access afforded to me as an alum of the Harvard Business School is unparalleled. I continue to be grateful for all the opportunities provided to me by Harvard,... View Details
- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
economists, but many issues regarding intergenerational conflicts and their impact on the continuity of these organizations remain unclear. We examine 717 private equity partnerships and show that (a) the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
Overestimating Others' Social Connectedness By: Whillans, A.V., C. Christie, S. Cheung, A.H. Jordan, and F.S. Chen Abstract—Two studies document the existence and correlates of a widespread social belief,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 May 2011
- News
The PMD 70 Tree and Other Memorials at HBS
The groves of academe are fields rich with possibilities for memorial naming, from entire campuses and buildings to individual benches. HBS has honored individuals View Details