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- 17 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
Broadband: Remaking the Advertising Industry
costume performing actions commanded by the user. A: That's exactly the kind of shift happening in these media companies' resources—figuring out how to do that kind of marketing. It's a different kind of creativity, quirkiness, and is very much focused on a certain... View Details
- 10 Oct 2019
- Blog Post
Coming Out at Business School
woman. Coming out at the age of 25 was, honestly, uneventful. Upon hearing about my new girlfriend, my parents simply said they loved me and that they noticed I’d been happier recently. They welcomed her into our home and family without... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014
that his generation is leaving them and what they will need to do about it. Japan and the Shackles of the Past (What Everyone Needs to Know) by R. Taggart Murphy (MBA 1981) (Oxford University Press) Japan is seen today as a has-been with a sluggish economy, an View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
about the recent slump but also about the fascinating workings of the star-maker machinery behind the music that moves America. Strauss Zelnick, president and CEO of BMG Entertainment North America, a division of Germany's Bertelsmann AG... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 07 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders
divisions or countries; many moved overseas where they became general managers. All were given line management experience early on. They were placed into "mini-CEO jobs," as they called them, at a very young age (late twenties).... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 31 Jul 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Rise of the FOMO Sapiens
allows us to remove all of the emotion and then we can tap into our intuition. Because at the end of the day, you'll never have perfect data. You just can't. And so even in the age of big data, I would argue we have way too much data. But... View Details
- 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.)
- 19 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
The First Five Years: '30 Under 30' Edition
“I don’t know if it is my favorite, but a case that comes to mind that I really enjoyed was “Europe, Russia and the Age of Gas Revolution.” I’d always thought about natural gas prices largely on economic terms. The shale revolution and... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 15 Sep 2020
- News
How To Make Diversity a Reality
start exposing people at a much earlier age about asset management and private equity and why it's a good industry so that you can attract more people to the industry. Chitra: But even when you think about senior levels within private... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth
finances dwindled. Finally, at age 12, after years of physical therapy combined with advances in medication, Massie walked away from his wheelchair and cumbersome leg braces. To this day, however, he must cope with pain and self-inject... View Details
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
Experiment 3, we explored the development of this concern with appearing fair by using a wider age range (6- to 11-year-olds) and a different method. In this experiment, children chose how to assign a good or bad prize to themselves and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
this activity: Egypt's population is approaching 110 million, the highest in the MENA region, with about half of its citizens between the ages of 15 and 45 and the range of mobile-phone penetration well over 90 percent. The market to meet... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
School Case 316-093 Allianz Turkey: Focus on the Customer (A) At the age of 39, Solmaz Altın took over the helm at Allianz Turkey. Solmaz quickly realized that, although the insurance market was thinly penetrated in Turkey, the company... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
the technology bubble to examine the hypothesis that inexperienced investors play a role in the formation of asset price bubbles. Using age as a proxy for managers' investment experience, we find that around the peak of the technology... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Dec 2020
- News
A Creator in the Era of Disruption
have arrived. Indonesia is now the second largest venture capital market in Southeast Asia, and more than one-third of Indonesians from age 15 to 35 say they want to be entrepreneurs. Haryopratomo: My God, it's a bit too much now. I feel... View Details
- 04 Dec 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders
you know, it’s great to mentor. It’s important to mentor and support one another regardless of age or socioeconomic background in something that drives your passion. You don’t want to mentor somebody in something that bores you to tears.... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
On Credit
be. From outsiders we learn that she is a very industrious & prudent old lady, well meaning & will not bargain for more than she intends to pay for, that she is doing a snug business (which is managed by her son ‘Herman,’ aged 24, who has... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
restaurateur, broke, and with a wife and four young children at home, Rogers converted his aging Porsche into desperately needed cash to cinch the best deal he ever made — ownership of Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream. It’s one of the stories... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
Dumbarton Oaks energy conference inspired by Energy Future. COURTESY ROBERT STOBAUGH An eighteen-year veteran of the energy and petrochemical industries who had left business to enter Harvard as a doctoral student in international business at the ripe old View Details
- 19 Jan 2023
- News
Forged in Fire
ages of 10 and 60. You can get a lot of knowledge, but not your IQ. Your emotional intelligence is a learned skill. You learn those through life experience. You learn it through bumping up against the world and seeing what works and what... View Details