Fitness Industry - Publications - Faculty & Research

09 Jul 2018
Research & Ideas

Overcoming the Challenges of Selling Brand New Technology (Hey, Need a 3-D Printer?)

prototypes, artists made jewelry, and developers punched out low-cost housing. Machines that had cost upwards of $50,000 now cost a few thousand and could fit on a desktop. Formlabs brings 3-D printing home Formlabs developed a... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Industrial Products; Industrial Products; Industrial Products; Industrial Products; Industrial Products; Industrial Products; Industrial Products; Industrial Products

20 Mar 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018

Buell, Ryan W., Dennis Campbell, and Frances X. Frei Abstract—This paper investigates the impact of customer compatibility—the degree of fit between the needs of customers and the capabilities of the operations serving them—on customer... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 17

you are likely to find it strange and even wrong or irrelevant. It is unlikely to fit your view of what a finance paper should be. And that will be encouraged by the fact that it is impossible to be complete on such a huge topic in one... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care

observation: In 1969, there was information technology that put people on the moon. But we didn't have computers in the intensive care unit until 1982 or 1983. We had a computer that calculated cardiac flow rates out of the heart. And that was a very crude device that... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

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Departments | Employment

orientation Analytical thinking Comfort with ambiguity Applied expertise Measurement-focused What makes it challenging to work in Baker Library? Constant evolution in the information industry and scholarly publishing A shift to a more... View Details

01 Dec 2015
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015

Model outlines the author’s unique leadership principles, what he calls “Personal” and “Professional” Leadership. To illustrate what works and what doesn’t, the author takes readers inside the highly volatile beverage industry and shares... View Details

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Michael Maples

Rockefeller, and try to understand what it was like to shape a vast industrial era without any precedent for what was unfolding. “These guys didn’t really know what they were doing,” Maples said. ”They were making it up... View Details

01 Jun 2010
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Rethinking the MBA

corresponding example of actual implementation. But we’re pluralistic, not rigidly prescriptive. We don’t say that every school must pursue every goal. Using the wide range of examples that we provide, they will all have to figure out their own strategies to View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet)

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Faculty & Advisors | MBA

was one of the first venture capitalists to build a portfolio around the transformation of industrial sectors of our economy. She co-founded Construct to expand this focus and pursue the next generation of massive companies to be built in... View Details

16 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 16

look at the creation of the Carnegie Tech Graduate School of Industrial Administration after World War II. This episode illustrates the increasingly successful claims of social scientists, backed by philanthropic foundations, on business... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

06 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success

Corporate-sponsored venture funds first appeared in the 1960s, about two decades after the first flowering of the venture capital industry. Ever since, they have mirrored the cyclic nature of the industry as a whole. But there are... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner

25 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]

people and lots of money. The opportunity seemed right for Bronner, who had founded Digitas, a marketing-services firm that created customer-loyalty programs for clients such as American Express and AT&T. It also seemed a good fit for... View Details

Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg

16 Dec 2020
Blog Post

Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement

Club, recently organized a conversation about systemic racism in the fitness industry with help from summer intern Alexandra Horvitz (HBS 2021). Titled “Reimagining Fitness: Designing an Anti-Racist... View Details

17 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

Where Did My Shopping Mall Go?

other place where you are seeing malls thrive is at the high end. The luxury malls, what the industry calls A-class malls, are doing very, very well. It's the B- and C-class malls that are in trouble. These malls are targeting the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

10 Jan 2011
Research & Ideas

Is Groupon Good for Retailers?

accounts—a tactic that consumers have already used at many online retailers. And industry norms let consumers find ways around almost any rule intended to block multiple purchases. For example, even when consumers are limited to a single... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising; Technology

07 Feb 2007
Research & Ideas

Dividends from Schumpeter’s Noble Failure

them."6 This may be true enough, but here Schumpeter extends the theme of cycles into something like a determinate paradigm. He attempts the hopeless task of fitting historical patterns of business booms and busts into predictable... View Details

Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw

08 Mar 2019
Blog Post

Reclaiming Feminism: A Celebration of International Women’s Day

penalty to the LGBTQ community, to becoming a non-English speaking 1 -year-old construction worker in the suburbs of Seattle. From being in the 2% female population in my master’s program to being one of three female plant managers (out of 129 plants globally) in a... View Details

11 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 11, 2007

Working PapersThe Seer of Wellesley Hills: Roger Babson and the Babson Statistical Organization Author:Walter A. Friedman Abstract Roger Babson was a pioneer of the business-forecasting industry in the United States in the early... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2011
News

Extraordinary People

make a difference in her own community when then governor John Baldacci of Maine asked for help in creating new jobs to soften the economic impact of a local Navy base closure. Her 2009 Presidential appointment to the SBA was both a natural View Details

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Past Issues - Alumni

industry is desperate for good help. Ben Minden’s Bear Hug Cattle Company proposes a two-birds, one-stone solution. The Golden Thread Teresa Amabile spent decades studying creativity, motivation, and productivity in the workplace. At 60,... View Details

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