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- 19 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
2023 Summer Internships in Business & Environment
resilient production of fresh fruits and vegetables. That’s why Source.ag is developing pioneering AI technology, to give growers the superpowers to produce more fruit and vegetables, without breaking planetary boundaries. By enabling more growers to operate more View Details
- 2014
- Working Paper
The Organizational and Geographic Drivers of Absorptive Capacity: An Empirical Analysis of Pharmaceutical R&D Laboratories
By: Francesca Lazzeri and Gary P. Pisano
Scholars and practitioners alike now recognize that a firm's capacity to assimilate and use know-how from external sources—what Cohen and Levinthal (1990) called "absorptive capacity"—plays a central role in innovation performance. In recent years, a common strategy... View Details
Keywords: Geographic Location; Industry Clusters; Knowledge Acquisition; Pharmaceutical Industry; San Francisco; San Diego; Massachusetts
Lazzeri, Francesca, and Gary P. Pisano. "The Organizational and Geographic Drivers of Absorptive Capacity: An Empirical Analysis of Pharmaceutical R&D Laboratories." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 14-098, April 2014.
- 25 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Class of 2021 Student Profiles
beverage company in his home continent, Brice has pursued a career path that prepares him for leadership in manufacturing. “That’s why I studied engineering, then joined W.R. Grace,” says Brice. Through Grace’s rotational program, Brice acquired operational experience... View Details
- 28 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Profit Power of Corporate Culture
Danish-based facility services provider ISS; or as some combination of the two—typically in a holding company like US-based marketing services provider Omnicom with a number of subsidiaries, each with its own culture. A one company... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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Esteves Hall | About
Esteves Hall The renovation of Esteves Hall was made possible by the support of André Santos Esteves, cofounder and CEO of Brazil-based BTG Pactual, and his wife, Lilian. Esteves Hall, reopened in April 2015, is an executive education residential View Details
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McCulloch Hall | About
campus plan. Much of the interior of the U-shaped, brick, Georgian Revival-style structure was renovated in 2008 to upgrade safety systems, lighting, and finishes while meeting sustainability goals and adhering to modern, green building guidelines. Improvements to the... View Details
- Web
Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition
and educational games based on music. Social Enterprise Track, 2002 BEST Education Partners Matthew Fields, HBS Lucas Klein, HBS Jason Green Social Enterprise Track Winner Education management company, optimizing the use of school View Details
- 08 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Seven Negotiation Lessons from Amazon's HQ Disaster in Queens
instead. Playing hardball in this highly visible case could intimidate other cities seeking the jobs and economic boost that a new Amazon facility would bring: “Don’t push us or else we’ll expand elsewhere.” This uncompromising stance has... View Details
- October 2016
- Case
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.
- Portrait Project
Shivangi Goel
I donned a yellow hazmat suit, gloves, boots, face shield and N95 and walked into a locked-in COVID-19 facility that was created in the Boston Convention Center. I was terrified. There was so much uncertainty, with chaos, confusion and... View Details
- 30 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Future of IT Consulting
an impressive education and training facility called St. Charles, outside of Chicago, which focuses on maintaining currency in the skill levels of their professionals, as well as providing a leading tool for equipping their professionals... View Details
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Roger W. Sant, MBA 1960
$1.1 million with the help of family and friends, which was enough to build a $275 million power plant in Houston, Texas, in 1983. That facility brought the company the recognition it needed, and by 1988, AES was the largest Independent... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 16 Nov 2010
- News
The HBS Tunnels
McArthur. Click photo for larger view. Photos by Susan Young. HBS’s associate director of facilities management, Jason Munro, recently gave photographer Susan Young and me a tour of the Kresge (perhaps better called the Weeks) tunnel and... View Details
Keywords: Keith Larson
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Morgan Hall | About
stone facility housed offices for the Dean, faculty, research staff, and administrative personnel, as well as accounting laboratories, research rooms, and a laboratory of industrial physiology. Special care was taken to preserve Morgan’s... View Details
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Research Computing Services - Faculty & Research
statistical models and simulations. This research cluster is fully integrated with a dedicated research network-attached-storage facility and a dedicated MySQL server used for housing custom databases. RCS offers one-on‐one consultations... View Details
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Hawes Hall | About
seats and four with 68 seats. As designed by Einhorn Yaffee Prescott Architecture & Engineering, the 47,000-square-foot, brick facility includes 2,000 square feet of informal gathering space on each floor. The building completes the third... View Details
- January 2008 (Revised August 2008)
- Case
The Time Warner Center: Mixed-Use Development
By: A. Eugene Kohn, Arthur I Segel and David Lane
Despite the failure of other attempts to bring mixed use development in New York City, Related Companies in 2004 opened Time Warner Center, a huge complex incorporating offices, shops, restaurants, music auditoriums, a hotel, and luxury apartments on Columbus Circle in... View Details
Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Marketing; Buildings and Facilities; Construction; Development Economics; New York (city, NY)
Kohn, A. Eugene, Arthur I Segel, and David Lane. "The Time Warner Center: Mixed-Use Development." Harvard Business School Case 208-081, January 2008. (Revised August 2008.)
- 11 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
BTG Bioliquids: Creating Fast Pyrolysis Bio-Oil from Biomass Residue Streams
skyrocketed by 5x. This has forced one of the facilities to temporarily shut down their production. BTG Bioliquids highlighted that this was a major concern for them, and they are now exploring how to best hedge this risk. They are... View Details
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The Impact of the 'Open' Workspace on Human Collaboration
By: Ethan Bernstein and Stephen Turban
Organizations’ pursuit of increased workplace collaboration has led managers to transform traditional office spaces into “open,” transparency-enhancing architectures with fewer walls, doors, and other spatial boundaries, yet there is scant direct empirical research on... View Details
Keywords: Open Office; Transparency; Collaboration; Collective Intelligence; Workspace; Workspace Design; Architecture; Cubicles; Boundaries; Spatial Boundaries; Human Behavior; Propinquity; Co-location; Interaction; Sociometers; People Analytics; Buildings and Facilities; Communication; Design; Human Resources; Leadership; Management; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Networks; Social and Collaborative Networks; Information Technology; United States
Bernstein, Ethan, and Stephen Turban. "The Impact of the 'Open' Workspace on Human Collaboration." Art. 239. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, Biological Sciences 373, no. 1753 (August 19, 2018).
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McCollum Center | About
northeast corner of the HBS campus. The classroom facility opened in 1970, in tandem with the nearby Baker Hall, an Executive Education residence. Designed by Shepley Bulfinch Richardson and Abbott, the modern, two-story... View Details