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  • 10 May 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Rethink the Value of Joint Ventures

a joint venture and make sure that you can't buy those services or that knowledge through an arms-length contract that doesn't require sharing ownership. Most of what managers want from joint ventures is... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
  • 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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  • 10 Jul 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018

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Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 13 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: September 13

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Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 May 2012
  • Research & Ideas

A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy

bottom line. Some companies have invested time and energy into their CSR programs only after getting burned by bad publicity. For example, Nike suffered from an onslaught of negative press and large-scale protests from those who claimed its View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 12 Apr 2016
  • First Look

April 12, 2016

April 2016 Harvard Business Review Can You Cut 'Turn Times' Without Adding Staff? By: Bernstein, Ethan, and Ryan W. Buell Abstract—The president of RSA Ground, the subsidiary of Rising Sun Airlines responsible for servicing its planes at... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jan 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019

minutes. This was not to say that it was better than the warfighters or would replace their jobs, but it was evidence that autonomous robots deployed in this fashion could keep up with the pace of operators, serve as a force multiplier, and help protect civilian and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 28 Aug 2012
  • First Look

First Look: August 28

business loans, has witnessed dramatic growth, reaching over 150 million borrowers worldwide. Much of its success has been attributed to overcoming the challenges of information asymmetries in uncollateralized lending. Yet, very little is known about the optimal View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Dec 2013
  • First Look

First Look: December 10

http://hbr.org/search/313096-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 212-082 Schneider Electric: Becoming the Global Specialist in Energy Management Global electrical products company assesses growth and market demands in India. Company must decide between a product... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Jul 2021
  • News

Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

Your Life. NOVEMBER 4 Rod Harl (MBA 2000), president and CEO of Alene Candles, led the pivot of his company from candlemaking to the production of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) in response to the pandemic. Closing just before a mandated March 2020 shutdown, the... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2004
  • News

New Horizons for Iraq

offensive. Coppa was awarded Bronze Stars for his service in both Afghanistan and Iraq. We moved out of Kuwait on March 21. It was extremely hot and dirty. Everyone understood the position that they were in — you know you’ve got to get... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; James E. Aisner; Julia Hanna; National Security and International Affairs; Government
  • 01 Apr 2022
  • Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #3: Keith Kinch, BlocPower

low income individuals or veterans or women or LGBT people. We asked ourselves, ‘How do you bridge that gap?’” In September of 2021, then-New York City Mayor Bill deBlasio announced that BlocPower had won a $37 million contract to create... View Details
  • 27 Mar 2012
  • First Look

First Look: March 27

Exploration of Luxury Hotels in Tanzania Authors:Diego A. Comin Abstract Tourism is a tradable service activity that could allow some African countries to generate significant growth. Tanzania, given its unique natural assets, is an ideal... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 29 Aug 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Shoot for the Stars: What to Know About the Space Economy

when NASA started investing in the commercial space sector in a more concerted way. It created a program called Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS). It spent $500 million to start seeding rocket launch companies to provide a... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Aerospace
  • 23 Aug 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Strategy for Small Fish

ventures during the venture capital boom of the late 1990s was selecting areas that had no staying power, such as Web calendars or Web-dispatched limousine services. Over time, it was inevitable that these new niches would merge with existing ones. The View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
  • 23 Oct 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018

Geradin Abstract—Many of the largest and most successful businesses today rely on providing services at no charge to at least a portion of their users. For consumers, it is easy to celebrate free service. At least in the short term, free... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 14 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 14, 2010

the economics, management control, and organizational behavior literatures predict that when it is difficult to align incentives by contracting on output, aligning preferences via employee selection may provide a useful alternative. This... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Oct 2006
  • First Look

First Look: October 12, 2006

Boeing's e-Enabled Advantage Harvard Business School Case 807-011 Examines Boeing's new strategy of offering services to regain market dominance and help its struggling airline customers improve efficiency and profitability. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Sep 2013
  • First Look

First Look: September 17

world's largest online platform for outsourced contracts, where India is the largest country in terms of contract volume. We use an ethnic name procedure to identify ethnic Indian users of oDesk in other countries around the world. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Sep 2018
  • News

Havana Rising

full-time in 2005, spent seven years developing a deep network of contacts, then set up CET in 2012 to offer travel services to school groups and political think tanks alike. Three years later, in 2015, Michael Laverty—Gordon’s... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North