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- 02 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 2
Pontal, PPPs could be replicated throughout the SFV, transforming the historically poor region into an agribusiness hub, as well as being a model for the rest of the world. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/510042-PDF-ENG Cognizant 2.0: Embedding... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 May 2023
- Blog Post
Why Business Travel Still Matters in a Zoom World
the power of Zoom and similar communication technologies. The advent of these technologies has really shrunk distance,” he says. Ultimately, Choudhury hopes that leaders realize that nonstop flights could overcome temporal barriers and... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
conjunction with the redesign of clinical processes; and designing those processes in such a way that organizations systematically learn from their daily work. Assessing the impact of a program like MHCD requires short- and long-term gauges of measurement. “We are in... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
Daniel Bricklin [MBA '79] in an HBS classroom), to the extraterrestrial commerce of Orbital Sciences, to the development commitment of African Communications Group, HBS entrepreneurs, be they low-profile or household names, have... View Details
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
Risk Authors: Francois Brochet, Maria Loumioti, and George Serafeim Abstract Using conference call transcripts to measure the time horizon that senior executives emphasize when they communicate with investors, we explore the effect of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
A Janus-Faced Reflection
a division, the platforms one can stand on to make a leaderly difference appear altogether more numerous, flexible, and portable over the years —a small firm, a community organization, maybe even a family. And what of our leisure time,... View Details
- 02 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019
the company’s policy for awarding sales incentive compensation on HMM, as well as how they communicated with employees and the firm’s sole shareholder, the Harvard Business School. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
intuitions from industrial organization can be reversed: Collusion may become easier as market concentration falls, and market entry may in fact facilitate collusion. In particular, price collusion can be sustained by a strategy in which... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
from initiating and smoothing communication to establishing long-lasting relationships and mutual trust, and from bargaining and drafting agreements to securing their implementation. Chinese negotiators can be at once warm hosts and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 May 2020
- Blog Post
Reflections on Service - Armed Forces Alumni Association Student Profiles
of serving something higher than myself, and the bonds forged under training and combat. When I graduate, I will continue to look for opportunities to impact my community and keep trying to make the world a better place for my daughter. I... View Details
- 28 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
and from electronic communication servers—the effect of open office architectures on employees' face-to-face, email, and instant messaging (IM) interaction patterns. Contrary to common belief, the volume of face-to-face interaction... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale
Soviet Communism when Kremlinologists would take a look at who's standing on the Kremlin Wall. Q: There's a pecking order there. A: Right. And they would try to decode who has power by literally seeing where they were standing. That... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
Southern leaders. On August 19, he drafted a potentially momentous letter to a Democratic politician and newspaper editor, ending the communication with this proposition: “If Jefferson Davis wishes...to know what I would do if he were to... View Details
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
modularity," analyzing the case of SugarCRM. The modular architecture of this platform software is aligned with its intellectual property structure in such a way that the firm can derive, from the same code tree, an open source View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Case Study: Inside Story
route and find existing communities in which mothers are already congregating—in churches, through schools, on Facebook groups—and incentivize intensive word-of-mouth. “When people love the product, they recommend it to others in their... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
in 2012 to 14 million in 2013. The question remains, however, whether displays that use E Ink’s technology will continue to dominate the market. A no-door policy: With marketing, manufacturing, and R&D under one roof, E Ink employees can View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
workplace relationships, sharpen their communication skills, improve their personal brands and, ultimately, make an impact. The World’s Littlest Book on Climate: 10 Facts in 10 Minutes about CO2 By Mike Nelson, Pieter Tans, and Michael... View Details
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
reforms—beyond those imposed by the international lenders—the prime minister is bolstering trust and confidence, Papalexopoulos says. It’s a sentiment shared by Alexander Macridis (MBA 1991), president and CEO of the plumbing and View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
enterprises, this account of managerial responsibility is also meant to address debates about the role and purpose of business firms. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50371 forthcoming Revolutionizing Innovation: Users, Communities, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- October 2016
- Supplement
24 Hour Fitness (B): Ownership Changes, 2005–2016
By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
In 2016, 24 Hour Fitness was the number-two fitness chain in the United States, generating revenues of $1.4 billion from 441 clubs serving 3.8 million members. Based in San Ramon, California, 24 Hour Fitness operated clubs in 13 states. Having grown rapidly to become... View Details
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Wells, John R., and Gabriel Ellsworth. "24 Hour Fitness (B): Ownership Changes, 2005–2016." Harvard Business School Supplement 717-423, October 2016.