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  • 15 Nov 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Lessons Not Learned About Innovation

from current activities and investing in new growth, they create organizational flexibility, and they foster communication and relationships. Q: What are you working on currently? A: I'm working with a small number of exemplary global... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Jan 2003
  • What Do You Think?

China: The Next Big Market Opportunity or the Next Big Bubble?

Summing Up Those with firsthand experience suggest, in response to this month's column, that few CEOs with a reason to be there can forego investment in China. However, there is a reason why involvement today is most likely to be as a customer of China's View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 23 Nov 1999
  • Research & Ideas

The Future of the Venture Capital Cycle

volume have highlighted, much is still not yet known about the venture capital industry. The extent to which the U.S. venture model will spread overseas and the degree to which the American model will — or can — be successfully adapted during this process are... View Details
Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers & Josh Lerner; Financial Services
  • March 1995 (Revised March 1995)
  • Case

Smashing the Cube: Corporate Transformation at CIBA-GEIGY Ltd.

By: David J. Collis and Elizabeth Wynne Johnson
CIBA-GEIGY is a large, diversified multinational corporation that transforms itself in the 1990s through a massive structural and cultural change. The case describes the changes implemented and the processes used to effect change in portfolio, people, and structures.... View Details
Keywords: Restructuring; Change Management; Transformation; Investment Portfolio; Multinational Firms and Management; Organizational Culture; Corporate Strategy
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  • 12 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis

Harvard Business School. Shirley Spence is a writer, educator and former partner at Oliver Wyman, a global management consulting firm. [Image: iPhoto] Other Stories in This Series How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three... View Details
Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Health
  • 09 May 2018
  • Research & Ideas

A Simple Way for Restaurant Inspectors to Improve Food Safety

and the less energy you’re going to have to discover violations” “This study brought together Maria’s interest in how scheduling affects workers’ behavior and how that affects quality or productivity, and my interest in studying the effectiveness of inspections of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Food & Beverage; Service
  • 05 Feb 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Can Putin Score Olympic Gold?

trouble if they don't go well. Perhaps the brand with the most to gain—or lose—is Mother Russia, which paid a record $51 billion to host the Games, and has a rare opportunity to show it has shaken off its economic and political doldrums to pull off a major coup on a... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Sports; Advertising
  • 26 Mar 2008
  • First Look

First Look: March 26, 2008

interests of growers, millers, and customers; and the impact of changes in global supply (e.g., the rise of Brazil as a major sugarcane and sugar producer) and demand (e.g., the increased use of sugarcane for ethanol production). Purchase... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Nov 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Making Money Making Movies

Hollywood studios can determine the rules of the game. Another key difference concerns the extent to which markets are influenced by piracy. Piracy is a global problem, but I think it is particularly detrimental to box office grosses in... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls; Entertainment & Recreation; Motion Pictures & Video
  • 06 May 2002
  • Research & Ideas

A Toolkit for Customer Innovation

variety of industries use this approach. Bush Boake Allen (BBA), a global supplier of specialty flavors to companies like Nestlé, has built a tool kit that enables its customers to develop their own flavors, which BBA then manufactures.... View Details
Keywords: by Stefan Thomke & Eric Von Hippel
  • 17 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 17

demonstrate their impact on pressing societal problems such as global poverty. This article draws on several cases to build a performance assessment framework premised on an organization's operational mission, scale, and scope. Not all... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Jan 2014
  • First Look

First Look: January 21

2000 From humble beginnings as a Levi jeans store, Gap, Inc. by 2000 had grown to become the world's leading specialty clothing retailer. Its CEO, Millard S. Drexler, the "merchant prince," was credited with transforming Gap into a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Apr 2013
  • First Look

First Look: April 23

borrowing in the mid-1990s, but a severe financial crisis later that decade created a new layer of economic problems. In 2010, in the context of the global economic downturn, Jamaica once again returned to the IMF for financing support.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Dec 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017

Harvard Business School Case 717-056 The U.S. Shale Revolution: Global Rebalancing? The American shale revolution has upended oil and gas markets for nearly a decade. Prices have risen then plunged, production has surged and then waned,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 24

trust, employee commitment, and "ownership" behaviors of both employees and clients-could explain and be used to predict up to half of the difference in operating income between agency offices of a global service provider. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 12

assured. The global financial meltdown of 2008 nearly triggered another Great Depression, economies in Europe are still teetering, and powerful forces-income inequality, resource depletion, and mass migrations from poor to rich countries,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Aug 2010
  • First Look

First Look: August 17

health, education, business-government relations, and the degradation of the environment. These problems are not entirely new, but the forces of globalization and the economic crisis have made them more visible and increase their urgency.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 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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  • 29 Apr 2020
  • Book

The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages

Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 05 Apr 2021
  • What Do You Think?

Why Can’t More Leaders Teach?

on longer term leadership development.” The growth of remote work resulting from the global pandemic has affected both the importance and nature of middle management. Esther Derby asserts that the “role for middle managers is more... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett

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