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- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
"I tend to think that small and focused is the name of the game," agrees Matthew R. Simmons (MBA '67), president and chairman of Simmons & Company International. Established in 1974 as a specialized investment bank to the oil service... View Details
- 24 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Managing Alignment as a Process
fulfillment). Finally, learning and growth synergies would be achieved by rotating experienced professionals to key jobs in the new companies (key staff rotation), by sharing computer systems (common systems versus plan) and knowledge... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Nancy M. Barry, MBA 1975
communities." Today, the WWB network provides financial services in more than forty countries in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East. At the same time, this global organization helps microfinance... View Details
- 28 Jun 2024
- News
Honoring Leadership in New York; PRIDE Alumni Share HBS Stories
New York Leadership Dinner Honors Leaders Challenging the Status Quo At its 55th Annual Leadership Dinner in May, the HBS Club of New York (HBSCNY) honored four leaders whose careers and contributions to the world embody this year’s theme, “Challenging the Status Quo.”... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Balancing the Future Against Today’s Needs
the core for granted and expect nothing more than slow expansion here as you pursue "real" growth elsewhere, but successful firms focus on gaining share "every quarter and reinvigorating the core at all times," George... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
- 10 Aug 2022
- News
Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age
science and health services from Harvard’s School of Public Health, even she couldn’t successfully navigate the health care system for her mom. It set her on a path of discovery that led to not only a better understanding of the... View Details
- November 2004 (Revised September 2019)
- Background Note
The U.S. Health Club Industry in 2004
By: John R. Wells, Gabriel Ellsworth and Benjamin Weinstock
In 2004, the $16.8 billion U.S. health club industry continued its strong record of growth. There were almost 27,000 health clubs in the United States, up from 6,700 two decades earlier, and these clubs claimed 41 million members, over 14% of the U.S. population.... View Details
Keywords: Health Clubs; Fitness; Gyms; Chain; Weight Loss; Obesity; Exercise; Personal Training; Bally Total Fitness; 24 Hour Fitness; YMCA; Gold's Gym; Curves; Franchise; Franchising; Subscription; Promotional Sales; Promotions; Fixed Costs; Body; Accrual Accounting; Revenue Recognition; Buildings and Facilities; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; For-Profit Firms; Trends; Customers; Demographics; Age; Income; Private Equity; Financing and Loans; Profit; Revenue; Geographic Scope; Multinational Firms and Management; Health; Nutrition; Business History; Employees; Retention; Human Capital; Working Conditions; Contracts; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development Strategy; Markets; Demand and Consumers; Supply and Industry; Industry Growth; Industry Structures; Operations; Service Operations; Franchise Ownership; Private Ownership; Public Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Sales; Salesforce Management; Situation or Environment; Opportunities; Nonprofit Organizations; Welfare; Sports; Strategy; Business Strategy; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Consolidation; Corporate Strategy; Customization and Personalization; Expansion; Segmentation; Hardware; Health Industry; United States
Wells, John R., Gabriel Ellsworth, and Benjamin Weinstock. "The U.S. Health Club Industry in 2004." Harvard Business School Background Note 705-445, November 2004. (Revised September 2019.)
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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2024 Commencement Remarks | About
Humanity . Today, I ask you to join me in reflecting on these words one more time—how they have influenced your time at Harvard Business School and how they might continue to provide guidance as you begin the next phase of your View Details
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
The State of the Markets
and help provide a variety of services for a wide range of customers. "There is a direct relationship," he said, "between technological development and the liquidity of markets. We are all involved in generating more... View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner
- 04 Nov 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
sales forces, and phone-based payment services using power from car batteries, because often they have no electricity,” says Duch, who once described his job in a Class Notes update as “making competitive businesses out of ‘lost causes.’”... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 06 Sep 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mixing Students and Scientists in the Classroom
Despite earning two engineering degrees at Stanford, HBS associate professor Lee Fleming says he always knew he "wanted to study more than electrons." Even so, the former professional musician and bike racer, who worked at... View Details
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Global Opportunity Fellowship GO: ASIA - Alumni
post-MBA opportunity and would like to have a conversation to assess your eligibility for the GO Fellowship, please contact Kurt Piemonte, HBS Career & Professional Development, 617-495-6390, kpiemonte@hbs.edu . Awards Awards are designed... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
One-on-One with William H. Donaldson
called upon Wall Street and corporate executives “to create a new environment of integrity and accountability.” He seemed uniquely suited to lead that effort. Donaldson was cofounder, with two HBS colleagues, chairman and CEO of the investment banking View Details
- 29 Oct 2007
- HBS Case
Marketing Maria: Managing the Athlete Endorsement
saw potential in sports endorsements in the television age. McCormack informed Palmer that he was planning to start up a business revolving around personal business managers or "agents" handling professional golfers' affairs.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
McLeod. “The type of people you are seeing on Hinge are really people who you actually want to date,” he says of the app, which matches young professionals with other young professionals and was originally... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 09 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership
opportunities and promise where others see only defeat.” At each stage of aviation's business life cycle—start-up, growth, maturity, decline, rebirth—new types of leaders emerged, such as entrepreneur C.E. Woolman at Delta in the 1920s and '30s; View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
fibrosis treatment. Williams got into pharma by chance. After working in investment banking before and after HBS, he took a job at the consulting firm Corporate Decisions (now Oliver Wyman). One of his first clients was launching a drug... View Details
- 24 Apr 2020
- Op-Ed
Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19
as a recruitment tool, and 43 percent are using these sites to screen candidates. LinkedIn continues to be the most popular social media tool, but organizations also report using Facebook, Twitter, professional association sites, and... View Details
- 03 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
NFL Black Monday: How Much Do Coaches Really Matter?
three decades: Bill Parcells, Barry Switzer, and Jimmy Johnson. In 2003 Bill Parcells unexpectedly returned to professional football as head coach of the Cowboys. Parcells had retired four years earlier to universal acclaim as a rebuilder... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
The Exchange: Chance Encounters
Assistant Professor Maria Roche and Associate Professor Andy Wu; image by John Ritter Late one day in the fall of 2021, as she was packing up to head home, Assistant Professor Maria Roche bumped into Andy Wu, a colleague in the Strategy Unit whose office is next to... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint