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  • 01 Mar 2025
  • News

Editor's Letter

spring, when the editorial team holed up to brainstorm new departments for HBS magazine, we thought about all the cool things we’d seen in faculty offices over the years. Surely there were more we didn’t even know about. Wouldn’t it be... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2010
  • News

Noted & Quoted

businesses. ” — DEIRDRE LEOPOLD, managing director of MBA admissions and financial aid, commenting on the increasing numbers of women heading to business schools. (Forbes.com, April 16, 2010) “CEOs who actually take the trouble to delve... View Details
Keywords: Management; Management; Management; Management; Management
  • 22 May 2017
  • News

Two On-Track Investments

business of creating and managing “equine portfolios,” making Thoroughbred ownership a reality for anyone with the will (and the wallet) to get in the game. “I’m probably the only owner that bought his first horse on credit cards,” Finley... View Details
Keywords: horse racing; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment
  • October 1985 (Revised November 1986)
  • Supplement

CompuServe (D)

By: James L. Heskett
Describes events and raises issues subsequent to Charlie McCall's acceptance of the job as CEO at CompuServe. View Details
Keywords: Management Teams; Problems and Challenges; Information Technology Industry
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  • 01 Mar 2012
  • News

Balanced Scorecard and Beer Game Go High-Tech

Narayanan, the Thomas D. Casserly Jr. Professor of Business Administration and chair of the Accounting and Management Unit. Called the Balanced Scorecard Game, the complex simulation was the result of intensive research, development, and... View Details
Keywords: Professor V.G. Narayanan; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • October 2019
  • Case

GRIT Fitness

By: Lynda M. Applegate and Olivia Hull
In December 2018, GRIT Fitness was a growing chain of boutique fitness studios offering a variety of workout classes, including weightlifting, high intensity interval training, and cardio dance. With 400 members and three Dallas studios, CEO Brittani Rettig believed... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Mission and Purpose; Corporate Strategy; Customer Focus and Relationships; Forecasting and Prediction; Business Plan; Trends; Experience and Expertise; Talent and Talent Management; Training; Health; Selection and Staffing; Leadership Style; Leadership Development; Management Style; Management Teams; Brands and Branding; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Motivation and Incentives; Sports; Competition; Diversification; Expansion; Value Creation; Sports Industry; Sports Industry; Texas
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  • 01 Jun 2002
  • News

Late Start, Dramatic Finish

Peter Ware (left), a vice president at GSK, with team members Jeff Norton, Wes Brandon, Sheeba Philip, Edrienne Brandon and Lyn Baranowski Peter Ware (left), a vice president at GSK, with team members Jeff... View Details
Keywords: Management; Management
  • Profile

Jeremy Andrus

huge amount of unglamorous business activities behind the scenes that is critical to Skullcandy’s survival. Let’s talk about the glamour for a minute—the celebrity sports endorsements, team sponsorships,... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Consumer Products; Entertainment / Media
  • 01 Jun 2001
  • News

Books: Judo Strategy

Netscape research was documented in Competing on Internet Time, an earlier book by Yoffie and MIT colleague Michael A. Cusumano, and inspired Yoffie to pursue the concept further. After tracking references to judo in the management... View Details
Keywords: Microsoft; Netscape; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 09 May 2013
  • News

Road Trip

"Sarah and her team are tenacious and we think we'll learn a lot from them." Highland Brewing Company (Asheville, North Carolina). Cofounded in 1994 by owner Oscar Wong (SBA North Carolina Person of the Year), it began brewing locally in... View Details
Keywords: Management; Management
  • 01 Sep 2009
  • News

From Bytes to Bites

restaurants. Things went well, until — as is so often true in the mercurial world of restaurants — they didn’t. Thomas put her expertise in operations and management to work, helping to sort out some of the financial difficulties the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises
  • Profile

Adam Kanner

percent to 50 percent of tickets to live events go unsold. Reasons for this excess capacity vary, from a hefty rise in ticket prices for concerts and sporting events over the past decade, to a wave of digital entertainment options that... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2011
  • News

Reimagining the MBA

Elective Curriculum (Second Year) Authentic Leadership Development Leading Professional Service Firms Leading Teams Leading and Governing High Performing Nonprofit Organizations Managing Human Capital Power... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; FIELD program; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • November 1993 (Revised February 1996)
  • Supplement

Rudi Gassner and the Executive Committee of BMG International (B)

By: Linda A. Hill
Describes the final decision by CEO Rudi Gassner and the subsequent actions taken by the members of the executive committee. View Details
Keywords: Management Teams; Decisions; Music Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Germany
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  • October 1985 (Revised November 1986)
  • Supplement

CompuServe (E)

By: James L. Heskett
Describes events and raises issues subsequent to Charlie McCall's acceptance of the job of CEO at CompuServe. View Details
Keywords: Management Teams; Problems and Challenges; Information Technology Industry
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  • May 1989
  • Supplement

Lincoln Electric Co., George Willis, Video

By: Norman A. Berg
Presents George Willis, chairman and CEO of Lincoln Electric Co., addressing an HBS PMD executive class on October 7, 1988. View Details
Keywords: Management Teams; Industrial Products Industry
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  • 30 Jan 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Looking Behind Bad Decisions

Why is it that the U.S. federal government allows local communities to give tax dollars to wealthy sports team owners rather than to create better benefits for citizens? Why are organ-donor programs... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls

    Michael Ilitch

    quickly generated a loyal customer base. He went on to buy the Detroit Red Wings National Hockey League team building them to their current status as one of the wealthiest sports franchises in the world.... View Details
    Keywords: Restaurants & Lodging
    • Profile

    Daniel Schachne

    to his first love and focused his passion and enthusiasm in a new direction. He concentrated on Sports Management at the University of Michigan, and after graduation, Daniel took a full-time position with... View Details
    Keywords: Entertainment/Media
    • 01 Oct 2001
    • News

    The Eyes Have It: Business Plan Winners Pursue Global Vision

    hadn't really thought about this problem until he visited Peru and noticed that hardly anybody there wore glasses. Back at HBS, in Associate Professor Stefan Thomke's elective course Managing Product Development, Houghton started... View Details
    Keywords: eyeglasses