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- 28 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It! Newspapers Lose Web War
and managers are able to commit aggressively with the recognition that the disruptive business might eventually attack the core business. Unfortunately, threat-induced response also leads to very rigid behavior. We found that despite... View Details
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Leadership Execution and Action Planning (LEAP) - Course Catalog
stumble when tasked with closing the gap between a desired end-state and executing an action plan. LEAP is designed to give students pattern recognition and practice in developing action plans across a variety of challenges they are... View Details
- 02 Nov 2020
- What Do You Think?
Is Antitrust Just a Quaint Notion in the Digital Age?
level the consumer seems to benefit What are the downsides for consumers?: no choice in platform content feed from ‘preferred’ sources, personal information, and pattern recognition issues to name a few. So governance and policy settings... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail; Technology; Telecommunications; Communications; Consumer Products; Service
- 24 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Watsons: IBM’s Troubled Legacy
organization is in recognition of the part played by art in industry and its importance to industry in broadening the horizons of culture and influencing the needs and desires of the people of every country. Whatever that might mean. This... View Details
Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Massport, Back on Course
recognition program. The fundamental premise of the program is that people who are about to do bad things act differently from people who are doing normal things. And as a result, we’ve caught several people who have been either fugitives... View Details
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
of experiments based on behavioral game theory contradicts the Homo economicus model. In complex environments where complete contracts cannot be written or enforced, honesty, integrity, intrinsic job satisfaction, and peer recognition are... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jan 2021
- In Practice
Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm
will be opposed by some business interests, but making progress on such issues will improve society, and there is a growing recognition that business is not distinct from society. Healthier, more financially secure workers are more... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
Fable? Authors:Pierre Azoulay, Toby Stuart, and Yanbo Wang Abstract In a market context, a status effect occurs when actors are accorded differential recognition for their efforts depending on their location in a status ordering, holding... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
Growth within the EU has been sluggish, with high unemployment and low investment in R&D. The EU has launched a set of reforms to create a "single passport" system of mutual recognition within the EU for capital, services,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
laptops, cases of champagne, and other kinds of recognition to individuals who in some way had distinguished themselves. When a faculty secretary finally made a long-anticipated visit to her ancestral home in Italy, he gave her a camera... View Details
- 19 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
The First Five Years: '30 Under 30' Edition
make the strategy stronger, and then having the buy-in that leads to execution.” Pathipati: “I constantly use takeaways from HBS. The investing, finance, and strategy classes helped me develop the pattern recognition to identify... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 25 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 25
over how aggressively the company should try to grow, and those fights are threatening to derail Lynx's recent success. Purchase this supplement: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/810029-PDF-ENG Wareham SC Systems, Inc. Harvard Business School Case 110-015 CFO... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Women Negotiating in the New Millenium
double bind: if she says no, she's not a team player; if she says yes, she's that much further from her goals. Some solutions and perspectives of the audience were these: Jane should decline. It is a heavy responsibility that will bring her little if any View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 25 Sep 2015
- Blog Post
4 Challenges All Early-Stage Startups Face
secondary skill-set. The former venture capitalists had the pattern recognition needed for narrowing the ideation funnel while the serial entrepreneurs knew what it took to execute. The engineers built a great piece of technology while... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Daniel L. Vasella, M.D.
marketing group, hammering out goals and determining resources, work assignments, measures of success, and even rewards and recognition for a job well done. "It is the only method that works if you want to move in parallel paths and not... View Details
- 20 Feb 2013
- News
Thanking Veterans Online
and for their souls," said Hall. "Troop ID provides companies with a means of giving vets that recognition in a systemic way. For the veteran, it's not about the discount; it's about the gesture American businesses make to show they... View Details
- 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
Wells, John R., Gabriel Ellsworth, and Benjamin Weinstock. "The U.S. Health Club Industry in 2004." Harvard Business School Background Note 705-445, November 2004. (Revised September 2019.)
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
friend persuaded him to apply to HBS, where he arrived in the fall of 1966, newly married and with a razor-thin bank account. “When the oilman came to the door with the bill after filling the tank, we’d hide in the closet,” he recalls. Demonstrating the mental... View Details
- 21 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets
giant audacity. As one company executive explained, "Many companies pass the same way in Israel. The difference is really not personal. The difference is in the recognition that going the path that history wrote for us, we will remain a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Leading Innovation is the Art of Creating ‘Collective Genius’
Hill's cowriter on Being the Boss: The 3 Imperatives for Becoming a Good Leader. What most distinguishes innovation leadership, the book argues, is recognition that innovation is a "team sport," not the act of a sole inventor. "Truly... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard