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Strategy for Universities & Nonprofits - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

helps leading universities and nonprofits develop a strategic focus and deliver more value to the people and communities they serve. Strategy for Non-Profits The Museum Value Chain Choosing how to perform and integrate these activities... View Details
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Hamilton Hall | About

included in the original McKim, Mead & White campus plan. In 2005, a major project to renovate the 49,297-square-foot building was launched under the direction of Boston architects Finegold Alexander & Associates, with the goal of... View Details
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Alternative Investments Course | HBS Online

identify their defining elements, such as size, risk, and liquidity Develop the confidence and ability to assess potential investment opportunities and maximize the value of investment portfolios Gain the skills and strategies to choose... View Details
  • 06 Jul 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Are You a Level-Six Leader?

30. The levels we propose, though not linear, are in a general way a path to what Erik Erickson calls generativity and integrity. Helping leaders to find their own path and follow it should be the ultimate goal of a leadership View Details
Keywords: by Mitch Maidique
  • December 2023 (Revised February 2024)
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21Seeds: Taking Shots at Breakout Growth

By: Elie Ofek, Julian De Freitas, Michael Moynihan and Nicole Tempest Keller
21Seeds, a female-founded flavor-infused tequila startup launched in 2019, had made inroads into the alcoholic beverage industry by focusing on an underserved consumer segment in spirits—women, primarily in their 30s and 40s, many of whom were moms—and by following a... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Startups; Growth and Development Strategy; Brands and Branding; Product Positioning; Distribution Channels; Sales; Food and Beverage Industry
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  • 2014
  • Working Paper

Principals and Their Car Dealers: What Do Targets Tell About Their Relation?

By: Jan Bouwens, Eddy Cardinaels and Jingwen Zhang
In this study we describe target setting and target achievements for a car dealership. Car dealers are eligible for a discount on the purchase price conditional on their achieving the sales targets set by the franchisor. We show that car dealers (franchisees) who... View Details
Keywords: Goals and Objectives; Motivation and Incentives; Franchise Ownership; Auto Industry; Retail Industry
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  • 26 Jul 2006
  • Research & Ideas

The Strategic Way to Go to Market

and/or competitive best practices. The goal of stewardship is to identify the gaps. Managers may realize that their channels serve neither their customers nor their channel partners well, but it is too late. Closing them is the job of the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Oct 2018
  • Blog Post

Making the Switch from Finance to Fitness

lifestyle), I could not achieve my goals staring down Excel at the firm. Enter HBS! The idea of going to business school had been a flickering thought throughout the years. However, the moment I knew going to grad school was right was... View Details
  • 28 Sep 2023
  • News

Meet the New HBS Team Helping Alumni Clubs and Associations to Thrive

leaders—who volunteer their time and talent to build and sustain this strong alumni network. There are so many different types and sizes of clubs and varieties of programming. One goal will be to streamline and share best practices across... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley; community service
  • 12 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 12

optimization problems, or Internet applications where the goal is to find an acceptably good solution in a short amount of time, when a deterministic approach might be less fruitful or impractical. We aspire for students to recognize that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Oct 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Bringing ‘Lean’ Principles to Service Industries

experimentation." In their research, Staats and Upton document how the use of lean principles affected the workflow at Wipro. The concept of "kaizen," or continuous improvement, for example, resulted in a more iterative approach to software View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Computer
  • October 2016
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The Quiet Ascension of LA Fitness

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
In 2016, LA Fitness was the largest chain of non-franchised fitness clubs in North America, operating 676 clubs, serving 4.9 million members, and generating revenues of over $1.9 billion. Founded by Chinyol Yi, Louis Welch, and Paul Norris in 1984, the privately held... View Details
Keywords: LA Fitness; Health Clubs; Fitness; Gyms; Chain; Exercise; Personal Training; Retention; Bally Total Fitness; 24 Hour Fitness; Planet Fitness; Buildings and Facilities; Acquisition; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; For-Profit Firms; Customers; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Satisfaction; Demographics; Age; Gender; Income; Residency; Borrowing and Debt; Capital; Capital Structure; Cash; Cash Flow; Cost; Private Equity; Financial Condition; Financial Liquidity; Financing and Loans; Investment Return; Price; Profit; Revenue; Geographic Location; Geographic Scope; Multinational Firms and Management; Business History; Employees; Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Human Capital; Contracts; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Operations; Service Operations; Leasing; Private Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Sales; Salesforce Management; Situation or Environment; Opportunities; Sports; Strategy; Business Strategy; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Corporate Strategy; Expansion; Segmentation; Information Technology; Mobile Technology; Technology Platform; Health Industry; United States; California; Los Angeles
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  • 23 Oct 2019
  • Blog Post

How to Talk Gooder in Business and Life

after they leave HBS. Through conversation exercises and simulations with students in the course and people outside of HBS, “How to talk gooder” will focus on developing conversational skills related to choosing and shifting topics,... View Details
  • 25 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Feeling Stuck? Getting Past Impasse

Director of Career Development Programs at Harvard Business School. "Without it we cannot grow, change, and—eventually—live more fully in a larger world," Butler writes in his new book, Getting Unstuck: How Dead Ends Become New... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 11 Aug 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard

different time from operational review meetings. In that way, each meeting has its own frequency, agenda, information system, and participation, as best meets the goals for that meeting. Q: Given the proliferation of tools, how should... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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The New Role for Government & NGOs - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

& Melinda Gates Foundation, have begun to see the power of working with businesses to create shared value. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, for example, has formed partnerships with leading global corporations to foster agricultural clusters in View Details
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Online Entrepreneurship & Innovation Courses | HBS Online

March 27 $1,850 Certificate Design Thinking and Innovation Srikant Datar Leverage design thinking principles and creative problem-solving tools to develop innovative solutions to your most challenging business problems. 7 weeks, 6-8... View Details
  • 09 Jul 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Five Steps to Better Family Negotiations

These characteristics lead to stronger loyalty and sensitivity to one another but also greater reactivity in their interactions. Family relationships also have deeply ingrained patterns that have developed over years of interacting.... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Davis and Deepak Malhotra
  • 17 Nov 2015
  • Blog Post

What is HBS START Week?

before section events really get going. What was your favorite START memory? Field Day – it was so fun to bond with our sections over events like Limbo and Dizzy Bat. What is your overall goal for START week? START is not an isolated... View Details
  • 14 Aug 2007
  • First Look

First Look: August 14, 2007

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-005.pdf Can Higher Prices Stimulate Product Use? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Zambia Authors:Nava Ashraf, James Berry, and Jesse M. Shapiro Abstract The controversy over whether and how much to charge for health products in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace