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  • 17 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 17

Talismark, which helped its customers manage their waste, was considering re-engineering its business fundamentals to dramatically increase profitability by changing its sales and information processes. Implementing the changes would be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Mar 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Learning from Failed Political Leadership

rose-colored glasses will be much better positioned to profit from both positive and negative global developments. In summary, successful business operations in the current global economy necessitate a deeper understanding of political... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 15 Aug 2019
  • Blog Post

The Social Enterprise Initiative at HBS

impact investing. I thought, 'How can I use impact investing and tie in for profit principles to have an impact?' Impact has been in my blood for a long time and HBS seemed like a great option to re-center and commit to that path.   At... View Details
  • 01 Jun 1998
  • News

Diversity and Community

on employee and community well-being in fact perform better than those that don't? "There is some evidence to suggest the affirmative," says Thomas. "The service profit chain model, formulated by HBS professors Jim Heskett, Earl Sasser,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • 01 Apr 1996
  • News

Stewards of the Seventh Generation

assets are practicing sustainable development. According to this line of thinking, harvesting trees and using the money generated to build schools would be an example of sustainable development. But others insist that development is sustainable only if natural-resource... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso, Garry Emmons, Linda Goodspeed, and Elaine Gottlieb
  • 01 Oct 1996
  • News

Leading In a New Era

structure up-to-date. Last year, Boise Cascade announced its most profitable year ever, with earnings of $352 million on sales of $5 billion. At about the same time that Harad's company was struggling against declining profits, across the... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
  • 17 Nov 2020
  • In Practice

How Retailers Can Thrive in a Shopping Season Like No Other

is senior editor of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. [Image: cerro_photography] Related Reading The Right Way to Manage Churn for Maximum Profit Your Customers Have Changed. Here's How to Engage Them Again. Identify Great... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Retail
  • 16 Dec 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History

Business historians can profit from careful analyses of government and personal archives to reconstruct the early "start-up" phases of firms—and to uncover the role that other organizational forms, such as partnerships, played... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
  • 25 Mar 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]

confident he could arrange another round of private financing, which should suffice to carry the company through to profitability in 2002. New market opportunities were arising, such as providing dry cleaning through grocery-store chains... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
  • 04 Dec 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018

shareholders' economic interests and low corporate profitability, Japan introduced the JPX-Nikkei400 in 2014. The index highlighted the country's "best-run" companies by annually selecting the 400 most profitable of its large and liquid... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 12 Mar 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization

profitable business was maintained during the 1930s, despite a welter of exchange controls and other restrictions which handicapped German and other firms. In the longer term, the ring strategy failed to protect most of the firm's foreign... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics; Manufacturing; Consumer Products; Pharmaceutical
  • 15 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 15

Investment is "locked in" to profitable firms when payout is heavily taxed. Thus, apart from any level effects, payout taxes change the allocation of capital. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-040.pdf... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Nov 2006
  • First Look

First Look: November 21, 2006

in complementary R&D. We ask whether profit maximizing complementors will fully cooperate to make the final product as valuable as possible. Contrary to the popular view that two tight complements will generally have well aligned... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Jan 2020
  • News

What It Takes

it, and he thought it was great. The firm was so small somebody heard that he was looking at this. They came into my office and said, "We think it's terrible." And I said, "Why?" He said, "Because all the company's doing is making inventory View Details
  • 01 Jun 1997
  • News

Blockbuster Deals

inept or complacent management drew the attention of raiders. "I give credit to that 1980s movement as a whole for having created the profit machine that we see in the 1990s," Hayes says. "We now have an M&A; movement driven by strategic... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
  • 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
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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.
  • May 2022
  • Supplement

Maestro Pizza (B): The Competition Awakens

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Fares Khrais
Maestro pizza opened its first store in 2013 after its founder, Khalid Al Omran, recognized an opportunity in Saudi Arabia to offer high quality pizza at affordable prices. The business grew rapidly and under the radar at first, but soon enough caught the attention of... View Details
Keywords: Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Competition; Market Entry and Exit; Emerging Markets; Business Startups; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Product Positioning; Disruption; Disruptive Innovation; Advertising; Advertising Campaigns; Social Media; Forecasting and Prediction; Crisis Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Brands and Branding; Product Development; Production; Service Delivery; Business Growth and Maturation; Financial Statements; Cost Management; Analysis; Quality; Performance Consistency; Customer Satisfaction; Profit; Family Ownership; Food and Beverage Industry; Saudi Arabia; Middle East
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Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Fares Khrais. "Maestro Pizza (B): The Competition Awakens." Harvard Business School Supplement 722-400, May 2022.
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  • 18 Aug 2021
  • News

Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement

get involved in their communities. “Long-term profitability is driven by bringing long-term value to many, many people,” he said. JULY 20 Amira Polack (MBA 2018), founder and CEO of fitness app Struct Club, recently organized a... View Details
  • 11 Apr 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 11

biased forecasts for potential future employers are more likely to face favorable career outcomes and bank executives appear to profit from the analysts' bias since the bias is associated with higher levels of insider trading. Our results... View Details
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