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Regional Winners - Alumni
& CMO Sylvan Guo, MBA 2022, Co-Founder & COO Region: Northeastern U.S/Boston Tilden For creating spirited connections. Mariah Hilton Wood, MBA 2022, Co-Founder & COO Vanessa Royle, MBA 2022, Co-Founder Region: Western U.S./Southern View Details
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relationships with potential FIELD Global Immersion partners. Africa Asia-Pacific California Europe Japan Latin America Middle East & North Africa Mid-US South Asia Baker Library | Bloomberg Center Delivering distinctive information... View Details
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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research
States ; California ; Texas Citation Educators Purchase Related Margolis, Joshua D., Matthew Preble, and Dave Habeeb. "Lisa Su and AMD (A)." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Case 425-704, April 2025. Sharon Goldberg and... View Details
- 10 Dec 2014
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Minimum Wage Debate Is Really About Social Values
on. These regions and cities are trying to decide what kind of regions and cities they want to be. California is a good case study. A few years ago, California was in complete crisis, fiscally. One option... View Details
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Photography and Print Advertising - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
Advertising the American Dream: Making Way for Modernity, 1920–1940 . Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985, p. 150. Elspeth Brown notes that “pictorialism’s aesthetic ideals were not inherently antithetical to commercial... View Details
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Research Resources - Doctoral
Global Research Activities Africa Asia-Pacific California Europe Japan Latin America Middle East & North Africa South Asia Harvard University Harvard University Libraries HBS Doctoral students have access to the more than 90 libraries... View Details
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Doing Business with China: Early American Trading Houses - A Chronicle of the China Trade
MA: East Asian Research Center, Harvard University, 1971, p. 115. Yen-P’ing Hao, The Commercial Revolution in Nineteenth-Century China: The Rise of Sino-Western Mercantile Capitalism . Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986, p.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
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The Burden Legacy
16, landed his first job as a reporter and camera assistant with a New York newsreel company. He joined RKO Pictures in California in 1929, rising from production assistant to associate producer. At the dawn of World War II Shirley... View Details
Keywords: Linda Kush
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NVC Regions - Alumni
California Maya Krish , Staff lead Eli Busen , MBA 2015 Vince K Lane , OPM 37 Western US - HBS Association of Southern California Joseph Grimes , MBA 1988 Candace Ng , MBA 1996 Western US States Alaska... View Details
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Great Negotiator Study Initiative
What can be legitimately be learned from closely studying great negotiators at work? Since 2000, the Program on Negotiation (PON)—an active inter-university consortium mainly comprised of numerous faculty from across... View Details
- 09 Jan 2012
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Location, Location, Location: The Strategy of Place
movie industry resides. Alcácer says that when Disney bought Pixar in 2006, Pixar executives asked to remain based in Northern California because they didn't want the company's culture to be negatively affected by the culture in Southern... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Mar 2021
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Commuting Hurts Productivity and Your Best Talent Suffers Most
negative health outcomes, including heart disease—Wu says this is the first study to analyze the impact on the innovation generated by firms and their workers. The research team analyzed a sample of 3,445 inventors and 1,180 firms in View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 12 Sep 2024
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4 Things You Need to Know about Immersive FIELD Courses at HBS
with destinations ranging from San Francisco, California to Tokyo, Japan! 1. IFCs Have Been Running at HBS since 2006 Immersive Field Courses were first developed in 2006 in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, which devastated New... View Details
- October 2016
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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... View Details
Keywords: 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; Geographic Scope; Multinational Firms and Management; Business History; Employees; Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Human Capital; Contracts; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Operations; Service Operations; Leasing; Private Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Sales; Salesforce Management; Situation or Environment; Opportunities; Sports; Strategy; Business Strategy; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Corporate Strategy; Expansion; Segmentation; Information Technology; 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.
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Health Care - Faculty & Research
inclusivity and employee connections. Keywords: Change ; Communication ; Competency and Skills ; Human Resources ; Surveys ; Information Technology ; Health Pandemics ; Organizational Culture ; Networks ; Accommodations Industry ; Technology Industry ; Travel Industry... View Details
- 22 Mar 2021
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How to Learn from the Big Mistake You Almost Make
delivery systems.” To unravel this complexity, the research team surveyed 78 radiation oncology professionals at the University of California in Los Angeles. First, they surveyed the group about their perceived psychological safety in the... View Details
- November 2023 (Revised April 2024)
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Khanmigo: Revolutionizing Learning with GenAI
By: William A. Sahlman, Allison M. Ciechanover and Emily Grandjean
Already a leader in the edtech space since its 2008 launch, Khan Academy was now one of the first edtech organizations to embrace generative artificial intelligence ("genAI"). In March 2023, Khan Academy began beta testing Khanmigo, a genAI “guide” and tutor built with... View Details
Keywords: Technology Adoption; Leading Change; Entrepreneurship; Risk and Uncertainty; Education; AI and Machine Learning; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Education Industry; Technology Industry; United States; San Francisco
Sahlman, William A., Allison M. Ciechanover, and Emily Grandjean. "Khanmigo: Revolutionizing Learning with GenAI." Harvard Business School Case 824-059, November 2023. (Revised April 2024.)
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Making the Decision to Attend: Our Participants Share Their Stories
definitely worth the time investment. My family came out to Boston the first week so I could spend a little time with them. I also went home to California for the brief break halfway through the program. Today's technology, like FaceTime,... View Details
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Accounting & Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Chamber of Commerce and Japonica Partners in 2015. Eugene F. Soltes : Winner of the Best Paper Award at the 2015 California Corporate Finance Conference for “Being Surprised by the Unsurprising: Earnings Seasonality and Stock Returns”... View Details
- August 2020
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Zoom Video Communications: Eric Yuan's Leadership During COVID-19
In the first half of 2020, worldwide lockdowns caused by the COVID-19 pandemic brought explosive growth to the Zoom Video Communications platform, as people replaced in-person work and social events with videoconferencing. Months into the pandemic, CEO Eric Yuan... View Details
Keywords: Transformation; Communication Technology; Customer Value and Value Chain; Values and Beliefs; Technological Innovation; Leadership; Crisis Management; Organizational Culture; Working Conditions; Strategy; Information Technology; Applications and Software; Technology Adoption; Health Pandemics; Technology Industry; United States; California
Kominers, Scott Duke, Christopher Stanton, Andy Wu, and George Gonzalez. "Zoom Video Communications: Eric Yuan's Leadership During COVID-19." Harvard Business School Case 821-014, August 2020.