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I am currently a Principal or Co-Principal Investigator of five field-based randomized controlled trials, each of which examines the management of lay health workers in developing countries, with an eye toward generating theoretical insights and policy guidance on how... View Details
- 18 Jan 2018
- News
The Lessons of All-Day Breakfast
tend to have a really nice quality perception, it also helped improve our overall quality scores. So, it really was the trifecta in terms of overall performance. Morrell: So this pilot process begins in the San Diego market. Did you go on site or were you just looking... View Details
- 13 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm
results—the next quarterly report and the rewards that come from short-term success—while ignoring their responsibilities to sustaining and building the company's long-term fiscal health. Ironically, it was the Wall Street leaders who put... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 19 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Company Loyalty
conflict-resolution techniques," he suggests, "and regularly practice at least one technique that fits your style. As your comfort with conflict resolution grows, at least some of your direct reports will begin emulating... View Details
Keywords: by Lauren Keller Johnson
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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
wealth, fame and high achievement are often glorified as the keys to success, the Harvard Study of Adult Development examines what actually helps people thrive by studying thousands of lives unfolding across nearly a century. This lecture View Details
- November 2005 (Revised December 2016)
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Bally Total Fitness (A): The Rise, 1962–2004
By: John R. Wells, Elizabeth A. Raabe and Gabriel Ellsworth
From a single, modest club in 1962, Bally Total Fitness had grown to become—in management’s words—the “largest and only nationwide commercial operator of fitness centers” in the United States in 2004. Bally had faced its share of challenges, but the last couple of... View Details
Keywords: Bally Total Fitness; Fitness; Gyms; Health Clubs; Chain; Securities And Exchange Commission; Paul Toback; Weight Loss; Exercise; Contracts; Personal Training; Retention; Accounting; Accounting Audits; Accrual Accounting; Finance; Advertising; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; For-Profit Firms; Customers; Customer Satisfaction; Public Equity; Financing and Loans; Revenue; Revenue Recognition; Geographic Scope; Multinational Firms and Management; Health; Nutrition; Business History; Lawsuits and Litigation; Management; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development Strategy; Marketing; Operations; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Public Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business Strategy; Competition; Corporate Strategy; Expansion; Segmentation; Trends; Cost Management; Profit; Growth and Development; Leadership Style; Five Forces Framework; Private Ownership; Opportunities; Motivation and Incentives; Competitive Strategy; Health Industry; United States; Illinois; Chicago
Wells, John R., Elizabeth A. Raabe, and Gabriel Ellsworth. "Bally Total Fitness (A): The Rise, 1962–2004." Harvard Business School Case 706-450, November 2005. (Revised December 2016.)
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Managing the Future of Work (MBA Education—Elective Curriculum)
The nature and scope of work is changing rapidly, creating massive business challenges in the shadow of broader political and social shifts. HBS launched a major initiative in 2017 on Managing the Future of Work to define these workplace issues and... View Details
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I am currently a Principal or Co-Principal Investigator of five field-based randomized controlled trials, each of which examines the management of lay health workers in developing countries, with an eye toward generating theoretical insights and policy guidance on how... View Details
- 26 Sep 2024
- HBS Seminar
Garrett Van Ryzin, Columbia & Amazon
- 03 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Is the Future of MBA Education?
continue. At the same time, as a recent report by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business points out, we need research that is more practice-oriented and interdisciplinary. Q: Could you discuss gaps you identified, such... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
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It's academic. (Not!)
- my place in the world," remarks Instructor Francisco de Asís Martínez- Jerez (MBA '91). The native of Spain expects to finish his Ph.D. in business economics this spring and has taught the first-year MBA course Financial View Details
- 17 Dec 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
‘Ted Levitt Changed My Life’
order. In fifth grade, he and the late humorist Erma Bombeck started a school newspaper; in high school and later, after serving in World War II, Levitt worked as a reporter and sportswriter for the Dayton Journal Herald, where he helped... View Details
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Having grown up in a developing country, Professor Sikochi’s research focus is driven by a desire to understand how capital flows to firms and entrepreneurs with the ultimate goal to help build capital markets in the developing economies. To this end, he conducts... View Details
Reinventing State Capitalism
In this book we study the evolution of corporate governance arrangements that governments have adopted for their state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in the last 20 years. We show that the process of privatization and liberalization of the 1990s and early 2000s created... View Details
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Sameer's research examines the dynamics of social networks inside organizations and their consequences for individual attainment and organizational success. His research encompasses three broad streams of activity.
Social Capital... View Details
- 16 Sep 2010
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Idea Takes Root
Almost without notice in the American press, a new international effort is under way to create a standardized global reporting model for operating sustainable businesses in the 21st century. HBS professor Robert G. Eccles is on the... View Details
- 06 Oct 2008
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Economic Choices: 2008 Leadership Strategies
- 02 Apr 2009
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Online Education Offers Access and Affordability
- 23 May 2011
- Op-Ed
Leading and Lagging Countries in Contributing to a Sustainable Society
Editor's note: Please see related story, Corporate Sustainability Reporting: It's Effective. To what extent companies contribute to a sustainable society is a question increasingly important, not only to the companies themselves, but also to investors, the countries... View Details
Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles & George Serafeim