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- 12 Aug 2014
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First Look: August 12
the co-founders and co-CEOs of salaUno, Javier Okhuysen and Carlos Orellana, were encouraged by the results of their fledgling start-up. salaUno was founded as a for-profit enterprise in order to have the capital needed for rapid growth... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Reforming New Orleans Schools After Katrina
do not receive capital allocations for building or leasing facilities, which represent significant start-up and recurring costs. They must either reduce what they spend on teaching and learning or secure private funding to make the rent.... View Details
- 06 Mar 2019
- News
Making Sabbaticals Mainstream
longer than three years, that's very costly to companies. I've seen companies that already get that. I've seen venture capital firms. I've seen law firms. I've seen tech firms. But it's really, I think,... View Details
- 30 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 30, 2015
turmoil. The case explores the risks and benefits of a different asset allocation strategy and also considers how to classify some of the different assets. It highlights the issues around allocations across different subclasses, e.g., between View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 2
seed-capital investments or alumni groups. Experiments with other models, whether internal or with partners, provide experience and readiness for future change. Learning from partners, or from corporate venture View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
large-corporate innovation in Germany. It also shows the tight link between investor incentives and a startup's product market strategy, including differences between "pure-play" VCs and corporate venture View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
What Your Competition is Telling You
watching the response." Let them lead while you learn. When you identify new offerings or markets where your assessment of initial risk versus potential returns suggests caution, a competitor may do you the favor of venturing onto... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
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Global Activities 2020-2021 - Global Activities 2021
and three previous recipients had their funding extended. Moni Alli (MBA 2021) , founder of Front Edge, a lending platform in Lagos, Nigeria, that provides access to affordable working capital solutions. Nelly-Ange Kontchou (MD/MBA 2018)... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
company in developing a new drug.” The case “E Ink in 2005” charts the multiple rounds of financing E Ink attracted over the years from a range of private investors, venture capital firms, and technology and... View Details
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Lauren Murphy
Lauren is the Founder and Principal Coach of Pivotal Executive Coaching, partnering with senior business leaders to accomplish their professional and organization goals. She works with executives in technology, healthcare, real estate, consumer products, and financial... View Details
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- 13 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 13
of lawyers in a large North American law firm provide support for our predictions. We call for a new direction in network research that investigates how network-related behaviors associated with building social capital influence... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 6
perspective of originators. All originators benefit from the presence of additional informed investors in bad times, but each originator minimizes his reliance on costly informed capital in good times by issuing safe securities. Our model... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Nov 2020
- News
The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises
connected me because of her venture capital position to a startup role. And it was a hard left in terms of my career direction, but actually my HBS sectionmates convinced me to take the interview and I... View Details
- 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
Keywords: Advertising; Advertising Campaigns; Buildings and Facilities; Acquisition; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Business Organization; For-Profit Firms; Customers; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Satisfaction; Age; Training; Private Equity; Financing and Loans; Price; Profit; Revenue; Geographic Location; Geographic Scope; Health; Nutrition; Business History; Human Resources; Employees; Employee Relationship Management; Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Journals and Magazines; Human Capital; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Teams; Marketing; Brands and Branding; Marketing Channels; Marketing Communications; Marketing Strategy; Social Marketing; Demand and Consumers; Market Entry and Exit; Media; Organizational Design; Private Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Groups and Teams; Sales; Salesforce Management; Situation or Environment; Welfare or Wellbeing; Sports; Strategy; Business Strategy; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Corporate Strategy; Expansion; Segmentation; Information Technology; Internet; Mobile Technology; Online Technology; Software; Web Sites; Value; Valuation; Health Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; United States; California; San Francisco
Wells, John R., and Gabriel Ellsworth. "24 Hour Fitness (B): Ownership Changes, 2005–2016." Harvard Business School Supplement 717-423, October 2016.
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
organizations as being focused on tangible hard metrics like profit or market capitalization. But for-profits also do a lot of organizational capacity-building work. Venture capital investments are very much... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 08 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
Reclaiming Feminism: A Celebration of International Women’s Day
Feminism is changing the statistics. Women account for ten percent of senior investment professionals. Female founders receive two percent of venture capital funding. We want and need to change these... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
with which it works. "Acumen Fund: Measurement in Impact Investing (A & B)" (with V. Kasturi Rangan). Acumen Fund is a global venture capital firm with a dual purpose: It looks for a return on its... View Details
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
of industries can't be managed as "silos," tucked away in corporate, university, or government research labs, in incubators, or within venture capital funded entrepreneurial start-ups. Access to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
connectors. China, which outstrips both Europe and the United States in terms of EV adoption, wants to put 3 to 5 million electric vehicles on its roads by 2020. China’s central government has also opened the state-run power sector to private View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
Fung is also an outstanding ambassador for Hong Kong in his role as chairman of the territory's Trade Development Council. "The transition is going as well as anybody expected," Fung said. "The economic numbers are good, and there is absolutely no evidence of View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes