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- 08 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated
by allocating rewards and resources for both traditional performance and for learning activities. What has changed and what hasn’t? The four drives themselves, fundamental to human psychology, have not changed. The COVID-19 pandemic has...
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by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and the Internet
structure of their industries, hastened competitive convergence, and reduced the likelihood that they or anyone else will gain a competitive advantage. A destructive, zero-sum form of competition has been set in motion that confuses the View Details
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by Michael E. Porter
- 09 May 2017
- What Do You Think?
Should Management Be Primarily Responsible to Shareholders?
align managers’ interests with those of shareholders), a reduction in the defenses against hostile takeovers (that typically increase short-term value for owners of the acquired company), increased merger and acquisition activity,...
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by James Heskett
- 08 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 8
product design important, or is manufacturing the key locus of learning? How does a supplier's initial resource endowment play into the dynamic? Our empirical analysis yields interesting findings that have implications for theory and...
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Carmen Nobel
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
friends, and strangers, even when costly. Why do people devote their resources to helping others? In this chapter, we examine whether engaging in prosocial behavior promotes subjective well-being, which encompasses greater positive...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Using the Law to Strategic Advantage
affects each of Porter's Five Forces as well as the resources and capabilities of the firm. The availability of patents may be key to deciding what barriers to entry exist. The enforceability of covenants not to compete and assignments of...
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- 20 Oct 2023
- News
Highlights from the Fall 2023 Alumni Board Meeting
a cost of customer acquisition that has more than doubled. In addition to managing those challenges, HBS Online is focused on staying engaged in the market, experimenting with emerging trends like AI, and launching new products. Notable...
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- 22 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 22, 2016
investor's financial returns. Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance in Emerging Markets brings together a series of Harvard Business School case studies on emerging markets. This book is an invaluable resource for...
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Sean Silverthorne
David A. Thomas
David Thomas is H. Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. His research addresses issues related to executive development, cultural diversity in organizations, leadership and organizational change. He recently served as a... View Details
- 01 Feb 2022
- Book
Innovation Isn’t Just for Startups: How Big Companies Can Succeed
really gets accentuated when you need the cash and the resources to go to scale. It requires explorers like Carol Kovac to respect the tension in the organization and to manage from the outside in. As soon as the clients say, ‘I love this...
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by Lane Lambert
- 07 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
4+2 = Sustained Business Success
strategy, execution, culture, and structure—which virtually all of our forty winners demonstrated for ten solid years. That's no small accomplishment, especially given the limited resources companies have and the unpredictable pressures...
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Leadership Transitions | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Skip to Main Content Lehman Brothers Collection Resources Baker Library Collections Corporate Reports Collection R. G. Dun & Co. Credit Reports HBS Cases Baker Old Class Collection Related Archival Collections Bibliography Site Credits...
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- October 2016
- Case
The Quiet Ascension of LA Fitness
By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
In 2016, LA Fitness was the largest chain of non-franchised fitness clubs in North America, operating 676 clubs, serving 4.9 million members, and generating revenues of over $1.9 billion. Founded by Chinyol Yi, Louis Welch, and Paul Norris in 1984, the privately held...
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LA Fitness;
Health Clubs;
Fitness;
Gyms;
Chain;
Exercise;
Personal Training;
Retention;
Bally Total Fitness;
24 Hour Fitness;
Planet Fitness;
Buildings and Facilities;
Acquisition;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Business Model;
For-Profit Firms;
Customers;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Customer Satisfaction;
Demographics;
Age;
Gender;
Income;
Residency;
Borrowing and Debt;
Capital;
Capital Structure;
Cash;
Cash Flow;
Cost;
Private Equity;
Financial Condition;
Financial Liquidity;
Financing and Loans;
Investment Return;
Price;
Profit;
Revenue;
Geographic Location;
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Multinational Firms and Management;
Business History;
Employees;
Recruitment;
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Human Capital;
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Business or Company Management;
Goals and Objectives;
Growth and Development Strategy;
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Situation or Environment;
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Mobile Technology;
Technology Platform;
Health Industry;
United States;
California;
Los Angeles
Wells, John R., and Gabriel Ellsworth. "The Quiet Ascension of LA Fitness." Harvard Business School Case 717-424, October 2016.
- Web
Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship
entrepreneurship, branding, and innovation expertise. Bluemercury’s innovative retailing and human resource model has been the topic of numerous books, including Shopping: Why We Love it and How Retailers Can Create the Ultimate Customer...
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- 02 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 2
since the human genome sequence was completed-has changed the way we think about, study, and approach the development of novel therapies. However, these advances in knowledge have so far not been reflected in substantial medical progress in many areas. The problem is...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations
balancing the acquisitive and bonding drives sets up the second guiding principle for the leader: such a balance needs to be struck in every key relationship in the firm—within each primary work group, between all primary groups that are...
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by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
- 10 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
High Commitment, High Performance Management
people desperately need and want but often do not get in organizational life. To accomplish this, HCHP firms establish and institutionalize human resource management policies and practices that look fairly similar. Capacity for learning...
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by Martha Lagace
- 08 Jul 2019
- Research & Ideas
Are Paywalls Saving Newspapers?
jobs across the country and a slew of mergers and acquisitions as companies struggle to regain financial footing. As of 2015, 78 percent of US print media firms with a daily circulation of over 50,000 were using a digital subscription...
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Events - Private Capital Project
Shai Bernstein (Harvard Business School) Riding the SPAC Wave March 17, 2021 “Riding the SPAC Wave” with Chris Ehrlich (CEO of Locust Walk Acquisition Corp. and Senior Managing Director and Head of New Ventures at Locust Walk), Rekha...
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- 24 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Boards and Corporate Governance: A Balanced Scorecard Approach
A board's most important function is approval and oversight of strategy and of major strategic decisions, such as acquisitions and large capital expenditures. Boards are responsible for selecting (or replacing) the CEO, counseling and...
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Re: Robert S. Kaplan & Krishna G. Palepu