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- 16 May 2017
- News
Facing the Board
“We know the industry is changing and we need to become very good global thinkers. The risk of not acting is even bigger.” After kicking the case around, talk turned to the pending role play and the best ways to make it a valuable... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
New Releases
and technology; and governance, corporate finance, and organizational performance. The remaining chapters in the book give in-depth histories of and updates on some of the other efforts that bore considerable fruit under McArthur: View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
services they produce more expensive, which in turn makes the overall economy less competitive in a global business environment." Where the Heart Is Along with food, shelter is perhaps the most basic human... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 27 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 27, 2007
issue is how to expand the concept without adversely affecting the original users of the product. Also, what new kinds of competition are they creating? Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 29, 2008
the online social networking site Facebook faced a competitive challenge from Google as well as questions about how Facebook could monetize its surging traffic. In May 2007, Facebook had launched Facebook Platform, which enabled... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 9
as a major threat for startups and small companies; big companies have more financial resources and greater scale, market power, and brand awareness than small ones. However, our research finds that a smaller brand can actually benefit if consumers can see the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 May 2018
- News
Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
here. HBSAB Hosts CEO Brand Leadership Roundtable The HBS Association of Boston (HBSAB) held its 10th Annual CEO Brand Leadership Roundtable, “How Best-Selling Brands Thrive in Today’s Ever-Changing Competitive Landscape,” on April 5,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 28 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 28, 2010
Verlag, 2010 Abstract From small start-ups to global corporations, family-owned businesses were the main pillar of West Germany's economic growth after World War II. They continue to shape the corporate landscape to this day. This book... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
public, very global moment began quite simply and humbly, in Depression-era Nebraska. BW: I was born in this little town of Geneva where my family had a paint mill, they had a business there. It went bankrupt during the Depression. I was... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
race to win new customers and e-reader converts. It will make the company a truly global entity, bringing it closer to its customers in Asia. And the acquisition will simplify the supply chain, driving down costs (the Kindle DX,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Inside Intel
indistinguishable from one another. Fabs 4 and 5 both came online in 1979, each more efficient and more expensive than their predecessors. From humble beginnings, manufacturing was well on its way to becoming one of Intel’s competitive... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
knew his response would set the tone for businesses everywhere that looked to GE—one of America’s biggest and most-heralded corporations—for direction. Over the next sixteen years, Immelt would lead GE through many more dire moments, from the View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
finance, when more attention should be paid to getting out in the field to find out what’s really going on and why. If teaching becomes largely quantitative and the computer is the dominant resource, case writing and field research become relatively less important, and... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
Rytis Vitkauskas (MBA 2008) Target Global Leaving the Party Early Over the course of 20 years in venture capital, there are many that got away (Twitter, Capital IQ, Adaptive Insights, and The RealReal, to name a few). However, one... View Details
- 11 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Group Loyalty a Force for Good or Evil?
Hildreth had one day in Berkeley. “We went to lunch and started arguing about moral philosophy,” says Hildreth, who had previously worked as a manager at a global accounting firm for eight years. “When you work in an organization, you... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- November 2004 (Revised September 2019)
- Background Note
The U.S. Health Club Industry in 2004
By: John R. Wells, Gabriel Ellsworth and Benjamin Weinstock
In 2004, the $16.8 billion U.S. health club industry continued its strong record of growth. There were almost 27,000 health clubs in the United States, up from 6,700 two decades earlier, and these clubs claimed 41 million members, over 14% of the U.S. population.... View Details
Keywords: Health Clubs; Fitness; Gyms; Chain; Weight Loss; Obesity; Exercise; Personal Training; Bally Total Fitness; 24 Hour Fitness; YMCA; Gold's Gym; Curves; Franchise; Franchising; Subscription; Promotional Sales; Promotions; Fixed Costs; Body; Accrual Accounting; Revenue Recognition; Buildings and Facilities; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; For-Profit Firms; Trends; Customers; Demographics; Age; Income; Private Equity; Financing and Loans; Profit; Revenue; Geographic Scope; Multinational Firms and Management; Health; Nutrition; Business History; Employees; Retention; Human Capital; Working Conditions; Contracts; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development Strategy; Markets; Demand and Consumers; Supply and Industry; Industry Growth; Industry Structures; Operations; Service Operations; Franchise Ownership; Private Ownership; Public Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Sales; Salesforce Management; Situation or Environment; Opportunities; Nonprofit Organizations; Welfare; Sports; Strategy; Business Strategy; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Consolidation; Corporate Strategy; Customization and Personalization; Expansion; Segmentation; Hardware; Health Industry; United States
Wells, John R., Gabriel Ellsworth, and Benjamin Weinstock. "The U.S. Health Club Industry in 2004." Harvard Business School Background Note 705-445, November 2004. (Revised September 2019.)
- 24 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 24
different industry and executive context: Harder Than I Thought: Adventures of a Twenty-First Century Leader (2013). The book focuses on CEO leadership in the global economy and the fast-changing IT-enabled pace of business. We extended... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 21
multinational, dispersed shareholder, and private-equity owned firms are typically well managed. Stronger product market competition and higher worker skills are associated with better management practices. Less regulated labor markets... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
reversed decades of progress, particularly in places that lack access to vaccines, worsening hunger, poverty, gender inequality, and conflict—the impacts of which could be more deadly than COVID-19 itself. The global picture is... View Details
- 02 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2011
manager faced decisions that could have derailed the performer's career. A new case by Associate Professor Anita Elberse examines the strategic marketing choices that instead created a global brand. Why Leaders Lose Their Way (21,651)... View Details
Keywords: by Staff