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  • 01 Apr 2001
  • News

Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia

Businesses in the Asia-Pacific region today are caught up in a dizzying swirl of economic, cultural, political, technological, and social change. Enormous opportunities await managers who can harness these powerful currents to drive their... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes and Deborah Blagg; David Lane; Educational Services
  • 01 Jun 2007
  • News

Profiles from the class of 2007

Smile’s succession planning. Wherever his path leads after leaving Soldiers Field, D’Avella feels certain it will involve either social enterprise or his other passion, music. As manager of the New... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice
  • 02 Feb 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 2

institute to develop emerging leaders in the eastern Mediterranean region. Describes his biography and values, the models he established for excellent financial performance and corporate social and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jun 2006
  • News

India Arrives

out of poverty, and to do it in the context of a very freewheeling and open democracy. It could be a huge example for the world.” The primary catalyst for India’s economic growth can be linked to sweeping reforms instituted in 1991 under... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • 05 Dec 2017
  • Research & Ideas

What We've Learned from 101 Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets

video clips our team has created start to be used in classrooms, at HBS and in a few other institutions. These clips are really cool. I taught a class on corporate social responsibility in an executive education course simply using four... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Where Main Street Meets Wall Street

funds offer a level of professional investment management capability and skills once reserved for institutions or wealthy individuals. They provide a strong incentive to save and invest and have been a great source of wealth accumulation... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Financial Services
  • Web

Contemporary Black Artists at Harvard Business School | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

1996/2003 Chromogenic print Schwartz Art Collection, Harvard Business School, 2004.4 © 2021 Philip Kwame Apagya Philip Kwame Apagya studied photojournalism at the Ghana Institute of Journalism. In 1982, he opened his own studio in Shama,... View Details
  • 25 Oct 2016
  • First Look

October 25, 2016

about disruption, but you need a salesforce aligned with strategy to do something about it. This article discusses how investments in sales affect core levers of enterprise value creation (and destruction). Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019

identity-holders away from options they would have preferred in the absence of that appeal. Mitigating the Negative Effects of Customer Anxiety Through Access to Human Contact By: Shell, Michelle A., and Ryan W. Buell Abstract— It is a well-established result in View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 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
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  • 31 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 31

mobility effects of workgroup demography by integrating the social identification processes of cohesion, competition, and comparison. Using five years of personnel data from a large law firm, we examine the influence of demographic match... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 12 Dec 2018
  • News

Lesson Plan

school board and other local institutions is the product of decades of nepotism and poor practices, she says—it can’t be pinned on a few bad actors. Any criminal activity will continue to be investigated and handled by law enforcement.... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Chris Sorensen
  • 01 Jun 1997
  • News

Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference

sixth-generation business, said it is possible for enterprises such as his to adapt to change. "The issue is flexibility and being able to diversify," he advised. Speaking from his company's experience, Zobel said that family businesses... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
  • 28 Jul 2015
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First Look: July 28, 2015

Using panel data from the RAND Health and Retirement Study, I show that rejected applicants for Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) possess significantly more assets than accepted applicants immediately prior to application and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • Web

From the Chief Financial Officer - Annual Report 2020

environmental and social change—to transition employees to remote work, attract new customers, and spur innovation. The faculty produced nearly 700 cases and course development materials in fiscal 2020, along with more than 400 books,... View Details
  • 03 Nov 2015
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November 3, 2015

quantify the impact of scientific grant funding at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on patenting by pharmaceutical and biotechnology firms. Our paper makes two contributions. First, we use newly constructed bibliometric data to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Feb 2014
  • First Look

First Look: February 4

necessary for eliciting effort from those affecting the quality of interdependent teamwork. We consider the role of incentives versus social processes in catalyzing collaboration. We test our hypotheses using a unique data set of 260... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
  • 01 Dec 2012
  • News

Rival Visions

hardest assignments. He drafted plans to institute new military regulations, to reform the inspector general's office, and—most remarkably—to reorganize the entire army . Despite his emotional insecurities, he had total confidence in his... View Details
  • Web

Bibliography - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections

Institutions , Conference Series #21. Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, October 1979. Merton, Robert C. "Capital Theory and the Pricing of Financial Securities." In Handbook of Monetary Economics , vol. 1, edited by Benjamin F. Friedman and... View Details
  • 09 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 9

of Central America does more than just advance our understanding of the national and global consequences of the Panama Canal and the imperialist motives and influences of the United States. In an age where everyone is looking for new models to capture the benefits of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace