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    New To Big: How Companies Can Create Like Entrepreneurs, Invest Like VCs, and Install a Permanent Operating System for Growth

    Serial entrepreneurs David Kidder and Christina Wallace reveal their revolutionary playbook for igniting growth inside established companies.

    Most established companies face a... View Details

    • 06 Jan 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    Motivate Your High Performers to Share Their Knowledge

    Many employees fall into a rut. They do their jobs and respond to challenges in a set way to deliver stable results. But consistency can give way to performance gaps between a company’s high achievers and its weakest links. Fortunately, seeking help and adopting the... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • 14 Mar 2023
    • Blog Post

    How I Spent My 2+2 Deferral: Dyllan Muller

    Unilever, for the first time in my life I felt the freedom to put my own personal development ahead of my academic and career aspirations. What did I eventually decide to do? I became a digital nomad. I took the View Details
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    Katie Sadler

    art scene. Above all, the community is unparalleled; I still go back to my high school, Forest Hills Northern, to visit my old teachers. What has changed about your understanding of leadership? While it’s important to have an opinion,... View Details
    • 2017
    • Book

    Entering StartUpLand: An Essential Guide to Finding the Right Job

    By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang
    Many professionals aspire to work for startups. Executives from large companies view them as models to help them adapt to today's dynamic innovation economy, while freshly minted MBAs see magic in founding something new. Yes, startups look magical, but they can also be... View Details
    Keywords: Business Startups; Managerial Roles; Job Search
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    • 02 May 2016
    • Blog Post

    5 Facts about Clubs at HBS

    Many of you may have experience participating in, leading, and even founding groups during your time as an undergraduate or in the workplace. Clubs at HBS can similarly provide many terrific opportunities... View Details
    • 27 Mar 2024
    • Blog Post

    Video: Inspirational Women in Business

    important to pull generations of other women forward. Veronica Chua: I actively seek out opportunities to mentor and uplift others, especially young women entering male-dominated fields like tech,... View Details
    • 28 Apr 2015
    • Blog Post

    3 Reasons Engineers Thrive at Business School

    I wanted to have an opportunity to have a bigger impact. Whether you are an engineer, scientist, or mathematician, at some point in your career you will have to lead people, manage a budget or analyze the financials View Details
    • November 2005 (Revised December 2016)
    • Case

    Bally Total Fitness (A): The Rise, 1962–2004

    By: John R. Wells, Elizabeth A. Raabe and Gabriel Ellsworth
    From a single, modest club in 1962, Bally Total Fitness had grown to become—in management’s words—the “largest and only nationwide commercial operator of fitness centers” in the United States in 2004. Bally had faced its share of challenges, but the last couple of... View Details
    Keywords: Bally Total Fitness; Fitness; Gyms; Health Clubs; Chain; Securities And Exchange Commission; Paul Toback; Weight Loss; Exercise; Contracts; Personal Training; Retention; Accounting; Accounting Audits; Accrual Accounting; Finance; Advertising; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; For-Profit Firms; Customers; Customer Satisfaction; Public Equity; Financing and Loans; Revenue; Revenue Recognition; Geographic Scope; Multinational Firms and Management; Health; Nutrition; Business History; Lawsuits and Litigation; Management; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development Strategy; Marketing; Operations; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Public Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business Strategy; Competition; Corporate Strategy; Expansion; Segmentation; Trends; Cost Management; Profit; Growth and Development; Leadership Style; Five Forces Framework; Private Ownership; Opportunities; Motivation and Incentives; Competitive Strategy; Health Industry; United States; Illinois; Chicago
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    • 07 May 2014
    • What Do You Think?

    How Should Wealth Be Redistributed?

    Summing Up Is Wealth Distribution a Problem Cause or Symptom? The passion and thought that went into this month's questions about wealth redistribution suggest that the topic is of more than passing interest. Some cautioned against hasty... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 20 Jul 2021
    • Research & Ideas

    Bankruptcy Spells Death for Too Many Businesses

    Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection is supposed to allow companies to shed debt and get a fresh start. Ideally, creditors recover most of what they’re owed as the restructured firm begins turning a profit. Yet, more companies are liquidated... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne
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    Hiring at HBS: How Summer Interns Make an Impact at Emerson Collective - Recruiting

    development of sectors like education, the environment, immigration, and health care through impact investing, philanthropy, advocacy, and more. The organization brings together entrepreneurs, academics, artists, and community leaders, to... View Details
    • 18 Sep 2013
    • Working Paper Summaries

    What Do We Know About Corporate Headquarters? A Review, Integration, and Research Agenda

    Keywords: by Markus Menz, Sven Kunisch & David J. Collis
    • June 2013 (Revised June 2016)
    • Case

    Ensina!

    By: John J-H Kim, Alejandra Meraz Velasco and Christine An
    In 2011, a group of passionate social entrepreneurs in Rio de Janeiro, with the support and encouragement of several prominent philanthropists and members of government, launch Ensina!, seizing Brazil's unprecedented economic growth and national commitment to... View Details
    Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Teaching; Business and Government Relations; Education Industry; Brazil
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    • 21 May 2024
    • News

    A New Chapter

    Joe Wolf (MBA 1999), cofounder and co-CEO of Imagine Worldwide, wants to provide educational opportunity where it is needed most. “In the next 30 years, half of the world’s youth will be sub-Saharan African,” says Wolf. “Right now, the World Bank reports that only one... View Details
    Keywords: Catherine O’Neill Grace; photo by Cayce Clifford
    • January 2008
    • Article

    Putting Leadership Back into Strategy

    By: Cynthia A. Montgomery
    In recent decades an infusion of economics has lent the study of strategy much needed theory and empirical evidence. Strategy consultants, armed with frameworks and techniques, have stepped forward to help managers analyze their industries and position their companies... View Details
    Keywords: Leadership; Growth and Development Strategy; Managerial Roles; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Creativity; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage
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    Chase Hall | About

    offering single rooms with private baths. More than 80 percent of HBS students live on campus, taking advantage of the proximity to classes, extensive academic and social resources, and View Details
    • December 2023 (Revised February 2024)
    • Case

    21Seeds: Taking Shots at Breakout Growth

    By: Elie Ofek, Julian De Freitas, Michael Moynihan and Nicole Tempest Keller
    21Seeds, a female-founded flavor-infused tequila startup launched in 2019, had made inroads into the alcoholic beverage industry by focusing on an underserved consumer segment in spirits—women, primarily in their 30s and 40s, many of whom were moms—and by following a... View Details
    Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Startups; Growth and Development Strategy; Brands and Branding; Product Positioning; Distribution Channels; Sales; Food and Beverage Industry
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    Reconceiving Products & Markets - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    needs and new markets open up opportunities to differentiate , innovate , and grow . A new generation of social entrepreneurs is capturing these opportunities, and mainstream businesses must keep up to stay... View Details
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    Bobby Tuohy

    itself: a new cyberforce initiative called “cryptologic warfare.” “I did some research and realized this was a great opportunity to learn new skills.” “It was the pinnacle of my Navy time,” Bobby says View Details