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  • 01 Aug 2006
  • First Look

First Look: August 1, 2006

(and omitted) race as a key factor. We ask a critical question within this review: what do we know about the intersection of mentoring and race in organizations? Finally, we explore some of the unfinished business concerning race and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Feb 2024
  • News

GCC Crossroads Aims for a Bright Future; Seattle Alumni Talk Leadership in Tech; Italy Preps for European Alumni Summit

Saudi Arabia, and under the patronage of H.H. Prince Faisal Bin Abdulaziz Bin Ayyaf, Mayor of the Riyadh Region. Saleh Lootah (GMP 10, 2011), president of the HBS Club of the GCC, says the Crossroads Forum was designed to enable leaders... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 17 Oct 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017

2017 Boston: Harvard Business Review Press Entering StartUpLand: An Essential Guide to Finding the Right Job By: Bussgang, Jeffrey J. Abstract—Many professionals aspire to work for startups. Executives from large companies view them as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Mar 2013
  • First Look

First Look: March 5

and Charles C. HuangHarvard Business School Case 311-093 This note reviews the social media firms in health care that help providers and consumers to interact and their nascent business View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

will also explore implications of these changes for investing. Digital Platforms: The Business Model of the 21st Century Professor David Yoffie + More Info - Slides – Less Info - Slides Digital platforms... 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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  • 25 Aug 2020
  • Blog Post

Hikma Health + HBS MBAs Crowdsource Largest County-Level COVID-19 Dataset

When COVID-19 cases in the US began to spike in March, Hikma Health, a digital health startup from the Harvard i-lab and winner of the 2019 Harvard Business School (HBS) New Venture Competition, asked how they could best help to stop the... View Details
  • Web

Student Activities - Health Care

and figures about where students are securing internships and full-time positions. Health Care Career Days Offers panels and presentations designed to introduce students to diverse health care industries, including life sciences, digital... View Details
  • 13 Apr 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Why Your Company Wants to be a 'Cognitive Referent' (Hint: SpaceX)

to sort of leverage this subtle change in the founding story over time,” he says. When startups are pivoting to adapt their product or service, they need to be aware of how they frame those changes for external stakeholders and their employees. A dramatically changed... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Aerospace; Food & Beverage; Retail
  • 25 Feb 2020
  • News

Task Force

world following China’s path. “It was an incredibly powerful wave that I wanted to ride—to build a digital business that would help people in emerging markets use their smartphones to connect to markets and improve their quality of life,”... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; gig economy; Retail Trade
  • 10 Nov 2015
  • First Look

November 10, 2015

share prices prior to turnover are not. A corollary is that a firm with poor stock market performance cannot, or will not, raise new capital unless the current CEO is replaced. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50062 November 2015 Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Sep 2018
  • Blog Post

How to Thrive in an Unstructured Environment

“Perfect is the enemy of done.” No experience has helped me internalize this more than my summer at blueground, an international, vc-backed real estate startup. Before business school, I worked at a large oil & gas company, where... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
  • 05 Oct 2010
  • First Look

First Look: October 5, 2010

BrochetHarvard Business School Case 110-029 This case illustrates the tension/balance that firms with complex and risky business models must consider in View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • October 2000 (Revised May 2001)
  • Case

Editora Abril S.A.

By: Michael Y. Yoshino and Perry Fagan
Brazil's media conglomerate Editora Abril S.A. is Latin America's largest publishing and printing company; it publishes books, and comic books, videos, maps, travel guides, music, and textbooks. It also owns Brazil's largest database marketing company, its... View Details
Keywords: Business Conglomerates; Investment; Growth and Development Strategy; Marketing Communications; Market Design; Media; Service Delivery; Private Ownership; Expansion; Web Sites; Publishing Industry; Service Industry; Brazil
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  • 01 Mar 2021
  • Blog Post

Exploring Career Passions through Short Intensive Programs – Moving Beyond Direct to Consumer

a faculty member’s area of expertise or passion. We caught up with Professor Len Schlesinger, who taught the Moving Beyond Direct to Consumer (DTC) SIP with Matt Higgins of RSE Ventures. They designed this SIP to serve as a launch pad for... View Details
  • October 2022 (Revised December 2022)
  • Case

Aphro Beverages

By: Frank V. Cespedes and Amram Migdal
This case focuses on distribution, sales, and product decisions as Aphro Beverages reaches an inflection point in its growth trajectory. In 2020, Aphro Beverages, based in Accra, Ghana, successfully launched its brand and brought two new alcoholic spirits products to... View Details
Keywords: Agribusiness; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Business Ventures; Business Growth and Maturation; Entrepreneurship; Food; Geography; Geographic Scope; Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Resource Allocation; Marketing; Brands and Branding; Digital Marketing; Product Marketing; Product Launch; Product Positioning; Social Marketing; Operations; Distribution; Distribution Channels; Product; Product Design; Product Development; Supply Chain; Sales; Salesforce Management; Food and Beverage Industry; Africa; Ghana
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  • 01 Nov 2016
  • First Look

First Look - November 1, 2016

Ewens, Michael, Ramana Nanda, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf Abstract—We study how technological shocks to the cost of starting new businesses have led the venture capital model to adapt in fundamental ways over... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Information Frictions, Pay, and Pay Equity" with Ricardo Perez-Truglia. Ranjay Gulati : Winner of the 2023 Axiom Business Book Award Bronze Medal in the Business Ethics category for Deep Purpose (Harper... View Details
  • January–February 2013
  • Article

Golfing Alone? Corporations, Elites and Nonprofit Growth in 100 American Communities

By: Christopher Marquis, Gerald F. Davis and Mary Ann Glynn
We examine the link between corporations and community by showing how corporate density interacts with the local social and cultural infrastructure to affect the growth and decline of the number of local nonprofits between 1987 and 2002. We focus on two sub-populations... View Details
Keywords: Business and Community Relations; Civil Society or Community; Business Model; For-Profit Firms; Business Growth and Maturation; Profit; Local Range; Welfare or Wellbeing; Business Processes; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Trends; Management Practices and Processes; United States
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  • 21 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: February 21

globalization. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52266 January 26, 2017 Harvard Business Review Executives and Salespeople Are Misaligned—and the Effects Are Costly By: Cespedes, Frank V., and Christopher... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel