fitness - Publications - Faculty & Research

08 Nov 2016
First Look

November 8, 2016

to understand the resilience as well as effectiveness of that corporate model remains inside the business group itself. As the business groups flexibly evolve, they can adapt and fit in to remain viable organizational models even in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Sep 2009
First Look

First Look: September 15

problems randomly selected from the same distribution. After collecting the experimental data to be used for estimation, the organizers posted them on the Web, together with their fit with several baseline models, and challenged other... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2024
News

Next Level

surpassed Windows to become the third-largest revenue earner of the company, according to reporting by technology website The Verge. While it may not seem to fit the bill of a company in need of turning around, Bond says there’s a lot of... View Details

Keywords: Maggie Mertens; photos by Cameron Karsten; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

01 Apr 2002
News

Back in Business

reached out to help all individuals and enterprises, no matter how small, that had been affected by the attack. No other city in the world has a larger concentration of HBS alumni than New York, particularly Lower Manhattan, home of the financialservices industry. So... View Details

Keywords: 9/11; NYC; New York City; Government

17 Aug 2021
Blog Post

Applying the MBA Skillset to Global Health Challenges: Summer Fellow Vasilis Theodorou (MBA 2022)

consultant, I wanted to test whether a strategy role in an implementing organization is a better fit for me. I also knew that I have a passion for social impact, but had questions about the reality of working full-time for an... View Details

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Equip our students to become leaders for racial equity. - Advancing Racial Equity

outcomes for Black members is a general management challenge very fit for the HBS classroom. A task for the leaders of our educational programs, as they document their programs’ DEI approaches, will be to teach a global student body about... View Details

04 Sep 2019
News

A Measured Approach

IDinsight fits is by saying, look, sometimes decision-makers need to make a relatively quick decision, and they cannot wait one, two, or three years to find out whether a particular program affects that longer-term outcome of interest,”... View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov

01 Mar 2017
News

Lego Stays on Script

play. It wasn’t clear if, or how, a movie would ever fit into this point of view. When Lin first approached Lego, the company hedged, asking him to consider working on a specific play theme like Lego’s robot line Bionicle—making the Lego... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Feb 1998
News

Short Takes

people can't anticipate or avoid." According to the study, consumers do not let paradoxes get the best of them. They combat such inner conflict by adopting coping mechanisms. They might, explains Fournier, use confrontative strategies such as accommodation - changing... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

01 Jun 2015
News

Ink

experiences, situations, and learning will keep us more mentally sharp and physically fit than a routine without these. Wendy and I wanted to work hard for a cause, but we also wanted to take advantage of our situation and take in all... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Apple; Microsoft; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Professional Services

18 May 2015
News

The First Five Years: Rena Xu (MBA 2014, MD 2014)

What inspired you to pursue a career in medicine and how does your HBS MBA fit into this career path? “I was drawn to medicine because I loved the idea that knowledge and skill could directly translate into improving the lives of others.... View Details

Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

22 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Negotiation is Like Jazz

toward creating the most fitting communication pattern for the negotiation overall. In our studies, my colleagues and I have identified six basic forms of interaction: haggling, fighting, working together, opening up, building a... View Details

Keywords: by Kathleen L. McGinn

22 Aug 2019
News

Catalyzing Africa’s Tech Sector

withstand any of the challenges for today. Hanna: And Andela was launched in 2014, the same year that you graduated. It's an organization that identifies and trains software developers. Can you talk a little bit about how it fits into... View Details

14 Mar 2019
News

The Merchant of Osaka

would knock on doors and say, ‘Would you be interested in talking with Nippon Life?’ ” She targeted fitness clubs and nursing homes, given the direction of the country’s demographics. Any new business Oishi brought on was passed along to... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

02 Sep 2018
News

Havana Rising

“Ramen head.” “These things are traumatizing for an elementary school kid—when you don’t fit in perfectly,” she recalls. And there were different customs and norms that required acclimation. The school had no janitors, so the students... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North

01 Jun 1996
News

Class Acts

difficult for women to fit in. The experience made me realize how important it is for women to form networks." So when Ma attended the WSA Women's Admit Day - a one-day introduction to life at HBS - and met other professional women who... View Details

10 Mar 2017
News

The Business of Lego Batman

directed the movie called The Guest, directed the movie. And it stars Nat Wolff. So we're just really excited about it. It is an unusual kind of movie that is a good fit for Netflix in that it's slightly off center. It's definitely weird.... View Details

Keywords: LEGO; Lego

09 Jul 2018
Research & Ideas

Overcoming the Challenges of Selling Brand New Technology (Hey, Need a 3-D Printer?)

prototypes, artists made jewelry, and developers punched out low-cost housing. Machines that had cost upwards of $50,000 now cost a few thousand and could fit on a desktop. Formlabs brings 3-D printing home Formlabs developed a... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology; Consumer Products; Electronics; Industrial Products; Information Technology; Manufacturing; Medical Devices & Supplies; Retail

16 Jun 2015
First Look

First Look: June 16, 2015

strategy. Without such a strategy, companies will have a hard time weighing the trade-offs of various practices-such as crowdsourcing and customer co-creation-and so may end up with a grab bag of approaches. They will have trouble designing a coherent innovation system... View Details