Managing Teams - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care

Board Still, Feeley remains bullish on the value of value-based health care, and is heartened by high-level interest by government officials. Over the past few months, Feeley, Porter, and Kaplan met with Julian Harris, associate director for health at the Office of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

05 Aug 2016
News

Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier

Photography by Susan Young “If you’re a brain geek, this is the best time in history to be alive,” says Jordan Amadio (MD/MBA 2010), founder and managing partner of NeuroLaunch, the world’s first neuroscience startup accelerator. “We’re... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

01 Mar 2017
News

The Middle Way

a December 2003 meeting, about 18 months into the negotiations and after three particularly long days, Eamer and his team proposed a 100/70/30 model: All of the rare and endangered forest types would be protected, 70 percent of the trees... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous

22 Jan 2020
News

What It Takes

Middle East, running a huge sovereign wealth fund, took it over. He was a royal family member. And I had never met him before, so I was going to be the first person who managed money for this giant institution. To meet him, it was going... View Details

06 Dec 2018
News

Cold Call Horror Stories

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes During Fall Reunions, the podcast team set up our microphones in Spangler Hall and asked alumni to tell us about those terrifying moments when—as is tradition at HBS—they... View Details

13 Jun 2017
Blog Post

MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences – A Q&A with Professor Robert Howe

pursued research that is relevant to practitioners, in contrast to the work of many scholars at other business schools, who give priority to generating and validating theory of interest to peers in the academy. Likewise, HBS aims to educate general managers. Since... View Details

26 Jan 2016
News

The First Five Years: Jill Applebaum (MBA 2015)

She shared the same germy fears and so we teamed up to launch Spruce & Co—our consumer goods startup focused on simple products for everyday healthy routines.” What have been some of the most enjoyable and most challenging parts of... 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

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27 Jul 2017
News

Seeing a Way Forward

clinics.” That month-long assignment ultimately evolved into the full-time role she has today. In her capacity as director of continuous improvement, Leger works with salauno’s management team to determine... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

01 Apr 1999
News

An Eye to the East

with the office's January inauguration. By bringing together nearly sixty business and management academics and about twenty CEOs and managers from across Asia, the forum provided an opportunity for HBS... View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes

07 Sep 2011
First Look

First Look: Sept. 7

sector. In a second section, a multidisciplinary team of sociologists and an economist map how reforms in economic and social policies have produced declines in the social standing of some specific groups and economic mobility for others.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

Bio-Piracy: When Western Firms Usurp Eastern Medicine

for anything where the prior art is known," explains Prithwiraj Choudhury, an assistant professor in the Technology, Operations, and Management unit at Harvard Business School. "But when a Western firm goes to a Western... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Legal Services; Biotechnology

21 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

What Happens in Vegas Could Shape the Metaverse

somewhat faded from popular discourse amid advancements in artificial intelligence. However, in an article published recently in California Management Review, Wu and Clough say they believe it’s only a matter of time before the metaverse... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Nover; Computer; Information Technology

10 Aug 2020
Blog Post

HBS Summer Fellows Focus on Racial Equity and Justice

is new and there's no way I could execute without my first year at HBS. From go-to-market planning in Marketing to understanding how VCs and term sheets work in The Entrepreneurial Manager course, I am applying my new MBA skillset every... View Details

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DEC - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Fifty Years of Women Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA Summer Venture in View Details

01 Sep 2009
News

Consumer Finance Makes HBS Debut

program at HBS. To prepare for that, I teamed up with Howell Jackson at Harvard Law School, who is an expert in financial institutions. We launched the CFS program two years ago, and it gave Howell and me the confidence that we could pull... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance

26 May 2022
News

Northern California Club Honors Noom; LGBTQ Alumni Share HBS Stories

combination of technology, psychology, and human coaching, Noom is backed by more than a decade of user research and product development. Its platform includes two core programs: Noom Weight for weight management and Noom Mood for stress... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Mar 2018
News

Making Sense of the Modern Startup

the insistence of the venture capital community, former Intel executive Mike Markkula joined the team. “So in that way,” Sahlman continues, “it’s different from real estate. It’s about, how do I create experiments that reveal to me, and to people outside the View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)

22 Jan 2013
First Look

First Look: Jan. 22

Publication:Academy of Management Annals Abstract The concept of imprinting has attracted considerable interest in numerous fields-including organizational ecology, institutional theory, network analysis, and career research-and has been... View Details