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  • 05 Sep 2007
  • First Look

First Look: September 5, 2007

Periodical:Review of Financial Studies (forthcoming) Abstract We investigate whether the geographic dispersion of a firm affects corporate decision-making. Our findings suggest that social factors work... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Venture Capital and Private Equity - Course Catalog

allocation underpinnings: mean-variance analysis, Modern Portfolio Theory, the Efficient Frontier, and Monte Carlo simulations The “Yale Model” Key fund terms: fees, expenses, carried interest, hurdle rates, and GP co-investment How fund cash View Details
  • October 2016
  • Supplement

24 Hour Fitness (B): Ownership Changes, 2005–2016

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
In 2016, 24 Hour Fitness was the number-two fitness chain in the United States, generating revenues of $1.4 billion from 441 clubs serving 3.8 million members. Based in San Ramon, California, 24 Hour Fitness operated clubs in 13 states. Having grown rapidly to become... View Details
Keywords: Advertising; Advertising Campaigns; Buildings and Facilities; Acquisition; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Business Organization; For-Profit Firms; Customers; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Satisfaction; Age; Training; Private Equity; Financing and Loans; Price; Profit; Revenue; Geographic Location; Geographic Scope; Health; Nutrition; Business History; Human Resources; Employees; Employee Relationship Management; Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Journals and Magazines; Human Capital; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Teams; Marketing; Brands and Branding; Marketing Channels; Marketing Communications; Marketing Strategy; Social Marketing; Demand and Consumers; Market Entry and Exit; Media; Organizational Design; Private Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Groups and Teams; Sales; Salesforce Management; Situation or Environment; Welfare or Wellbeing; Sports; Strategy; Business Strategy; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Corporate Strategy; Expansion; Segmentation; Information Technology; Internet; Mobile Technology; Online Technology; Software; Web Sites; Value; Valuation; Health Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; United States; California; San Francisco
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  • 11 Mar 2008
  • First Look

First Look: March 11, 2008

the East and the Pacific Northwest. However, the recent expansion in ethanol production is changing the pattern of grain flow along with stimulating the local farm economy. SDWG's management and producer... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

From the CFO - Financial Report 2015

to report their results on a GAAP basis in pursuit of greater comparability across the schools. In addition to results for fiscal 2015, this year’s HBS Statement of Activity and Cash View Details
  • 01 Mar 2007
  • News

Security Chief

on GE Security’s payroll plus hundreds more in GE’s corporate research centers in Niskayuna, New York; Bangalore; Shanghai; and Munich — to come up with a steady flow of innovations. Hearing success stories... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; technology-based security business; Management; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management
  • 04 May 2023
  • Blog Post

Why Business Travel Still Matters in a Zoom World

His broader scholarship focuses on the geography of work, particularly how location affects productivity and innovation. The ongoing rise of remote work, propelled by COVID-19,... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • Web

Harvard Business School Announces Latest RISE Fellows - MBA

Government Health Care / BioTech Manufacturing Private Equity Real Estate Retail Social Enterprise Technology Venture Capital Audiences Audiences FirstGen+ College Diverse Perspectives International LGBTQ+ Military Socioeconomic Inclusion Women View Details
  • 01 Dec 2004
  • News

Retirement's Changing Face

with this eternal conundrum. Easy Rider Martin Snoey (MBA ’72) Age: 61 Home: Mercer Island, Washington “My sense is that life is not a simple sequence of events,” says Martin Snoey. “Instead, it’s a continual trade-off among career,... View Details
Keywords: Personal Services
  • Career Coach

Carole Carlson

consulting skills and social entrepreneurship in their MBA program, and she also moderates online executive education programs for HBS Publishing.Carole is a 1998 graduate of Harvard Business School, where she was a Baker Scholar. She... View Details
Keywords: Consulting; Education; Entrepreneurship; Government; Health Care; Hospitality; Real Estate; Social Enterprise
  • 02 Mar 2017
  • What Do You Think?

Is China About to Overtake the US for World Trade Leadership?

improve their trade ‘interoperability...’" Nevertheless, "the US will stay a country with a young and ambitious population benefiting from the flow of immigrants while China is rapidly growing old... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • Web

CFO Letter - Annual Report 2014

Financials From the Chief Financial Officer 5-Year Data Summary CFO Letter Consolidated Balance Sheet Statement of Activity & Cash Flows Supplemental Financial Information Harvard Business School’s economic... View Details
  • Web

Five Year Data Summary - Financial Report 2015

Financials 5-Year Data Summary Statement of Activity & Cash Flows Consolidated Balance Sheet Supplemental Financial Information Financial Data IN MILLIONS for the Fiscal Year {FY} ended June 30... 2015 2014... View Details
  • March 2021
  • Case

Founders Factory

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport and James Barnett
In January 2020, Founders Factory (FF) Executive Chairman Brent Hoberman and CEO Henry Lane Fox were considering FF’s expansion strategy. FF operated as a venture capital (VC) fund built around an accelerator and incubator, and organized around sectors within... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Markets; Planning; Expansion; Global Range; Business Model; Talent and Talent Management; Experience and Expertise; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Global Strategy; Innovation Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Teams; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Partners and Partnerships; Internet and the Web; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Technology Industry; Africa; South Africa; Johannesburg; Europe; France; Paris; United Kingdom; England; London; United States; New York (city, NY)
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  • October 2017
  • Teaching Note

Canadian Pacific's Bid for Norfolk Southern

By: Benjamin C. Esty and E. Scott Mayfield
Teaching Note for HBS No. 216-057. View Details
Keywords: Capital Structure; Cash Flow; Cost of Capital; Financial Strategy; Investment Activism; Bids and Bidding; Negotiation Offer; Corporate Strategy; Rail Transportation; Mergers and Acquisitions; Transformation
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Startups: venture-backed, by industry, geography, funding amounts & rounds | Baker Library

Help Center Startups: venture-backed, by industry, geography, funding amounts & rounds How can I create a list of start-up or venture capital backed companies in a particular industry? In Capital IQ : Mouse over menu for Screening and... View Details
  • Web

Lynda Benglis Cloak-Wave Pedmarks 1998 | About

felt a deep connection to water. These works explore patterns of flow and movement, and function not unlike fountains. The sculptures were initially formed in wet clay that Benglis hand cut and pounded into... View Details
  • Profile

Marco Crespo

teachers to know more than students. Now it's more about how to process information and how to make decisions based on that information." The classroom is no longer the dominant setting for education. "You can learn math from looking at the View Details
  • 24 Mar 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Why Cutting Jobless Aid Isn't the Answer to Worker Shortages

new jobs that were created in early-withdrawal states totaled roughly $900 million. Yet some 3 million workers lost $7.6 billion in benefits—cash that no longer flowed into state economies—the researchers found, citing US Department View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • November 2017
  • Teaching Note

Reinventing Best Buy

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
Teaching Note for HBS No. 716-455. On March 1, 2017, Best Buy Company, Inc., North America’s largest retailer of consumer electronics and appliances, announced a third year of comparable-store sales increases and a 20.8% increase in domestic comparable online sales.... View Details
Keywords: Best Buy; Hubert Joly; Renew Blue; Showrooming; Webrooming; E-commerce; E-Commerce Strategy; Online Retail; Multichannel Retailing; Omnichannel; Marketplaces; Turnaround; Consumer Electronics; Consumer Electronics Accessories; Appliances; Stores-within-stores; Store Experience; Store Size; Store Pickup; Store Management; Delivery; Delivery Models; Amazon; Amazon.com; Pricing Strategy; Business Subsidiaries; Business Units; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; For-Profit Firms; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Satisfaction; Entertainment; Film Entertainment; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Music Entertainment; Television Entertainment; Theater Entertainment; Price; Profit; Revenue; Geographic Scope; Multinational Firms and Management; Business History; Cost; Selection and Staffing; Reports; Technological Innovation; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Human Capital; Leading Change; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Teams; Brands and Branding; Product Marketing; Consumer Behavior; Demand and Consumers; Media; Distribution; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Distribution Channels; Infrastructure; Product; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Public Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Programs; Groups and Teams; Sales; Salesforce Management; Strategy; Adaptation; Business Strategy; Competition; Competitive Advantage; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Expansion; Technology; Hardware; Information Technology; Internet; Mobile Technology; Online Technology; Search Technology; Software; Web; Web Sites; Wireless Technology; Resource Allocation; Computer Industry; Electronics Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Information Technology Industry; Retail Industry; Service Industry; Technology Industry; Telecommunications Industry; Video Game Industry; United States; Minnesota; Minneapolis; Saint Paul; St. Paul
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