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- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Porter Appointed to University Professorship
requirement in the School's MBA curriculum. "Mike Porter is probably the world's most influential business academic and one of a handful of the most influential who has ever lived," said HBS professor Thomas K. McCraw, Isidor Straus... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
The Race Against Resistance
the hospital, which we can then use to price our drug appropriately,” Kimble says. Kimble and Triola also stress the importance of developing antibiotics that can be used both in a hospital setting and at home, reflecting a dramatic change in the industry in recent... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- Profile
Luc Sirois
Yahoo, pre-Google, we were trying to think about how to have business models in those fields.” Another group of noteworthy campus visitors: Philippe de Gaspé Beaubien (MBA 1954) and his wife, Nan-B, whose... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Prima Datarina
pricing puts it on the cutting edge of arts organizations. See how other orchestras, theaters, and performing arts organizations are experimenting with business model and pricing innovations – it’s probably... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 17 Apr 2019
- Blog Post
Coming Home to HBS
consider myself lucky to have met them. After HBS, I left the East Coast for California, joining the Tech world for the first time, straight in the heart of Silicon Valley. While developing my career at Microsoft, I was learning about the commercial and go-to market... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2014
for loved ones, improving the job prospects of disadvantaged young people, or enabling us to communicate in new ways, the successful enterprises built and led by the 2014 awardees have had a deep impact on business and society. Gerald... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Chaotic Funding Derails Research
randomized model of research support in the United States, in which a change in administration or a court ruling can outlaw work that was previously supported by the government. Funding can be canceled with the stroke of a pen. The... 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.
- 28 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Harness Auction Fever
Want to create a high-profit auction? One strategy is to create "auction fever" around your sale by generating lots of hype, having strict rather than flexible deadlines at the end of auctions, and making sure winners and losers are visible to participants,... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
INK: Maker’s Manual
dissatisfied with current approaches to solving a social dilemma, or they are excited about the potential of an alternative business model or a new technology to address a social need. Still others are... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Building Bridges: New Dimensions in Negotiation
MBA course in negotiation as well as advanced dealmaking electives and Executive Education programs), has developed a model with former HBS faculty member David A. Lax called "three-dimensional negotiation." In a course note... View Details
Keywords: by Anita M. Harris
- 22 Dec 2022
- News
LGBTQ+ Alumni Forums Expand; 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition Is Underway
regularly for support around personal, family, and business matters. Modeled on the concept developed by the Young President's Organization (YPO), the forums were pioneered over 20 years ago by Bob Halperin... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 May 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 1, 2018
Tenbrunsel, and Max Bazerman Abstract—The business scandals in the past several decades led to the rising importance of ethics as a topic central to management scholarship. Behavioral scientists in particular were attracted to the topic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
Hekmatullah Ebrahimkhil prays next to a network tower on a hill overlooking Qargha Lake, outside Kabul. Ebrahimkhil is helping his father guard and service one of the mobile communication towers on the hill—part of an innovative community security View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 13 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Global Investments Are Still a Good Bet
sense to be diversified than it used to in the past, since, at the end of the day, all markets are moving together,” says Luis Viceira, George E. Bates Professor and Senior Associate Dean for International Development at Harvard Business... View Details
- 04 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Start to Measure Your E-commerce Success
"The study of e-commerce has unfolded in much the same way that e-commerce thrust itself on the business world—with a great deal of overstatement," says Marc J. Epstein, Visiting Professor and Wyss Visiting Scholar in Social... View Details
Keywords: by Marc J. Epstein
- 12 Nov 2018
- Research & Ideas
'Always On' Isn't Always Best for Team Decision-Making
the other parts of the problem,” Shore says. “In that sense, it’s like a model for complex business decision-making because, usually, interesting problems are not just a matter of tweaking one variable up a... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965
the raw bits and bytes," remarks Gerstner. A second strategy was built on the future of networked computing, a prescient decision made well before it became a prevalent business model with the rise of the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Make Plans for Washington GLF
extraordinary for the access it provided alumni to senior HBS faculty as well as to European business and government leaders. It’s one of the School’s great strengths that it can assemble so many of the world’s top View Details
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From the Chief Financial Officer | Annual Report 2024
From the Chief Financial Officer Harvard Business School’s economic model performed well in fiscal 2024, delivering a healthy operating surplus on investments in our core programs, strategic priorities,... View Details