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- 30 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Upside of Highlighting a Product's Downsides
running.” “By doing so, managers and customers alike stand to learn a lot about how well the company’s offerings fit with customers’ needs and preferences, so that better decisions can be made on both sides.” About the Author Danielle... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
independent vehicle of growth. Gilbert has won several awards for his work and credits the unparalleled training the School offers. "A lot of business schools train you rigorously, but only within specific disciplines," says Gilbert. "There isn't an equally vested... View Details
- 19 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Company Loyalty
conflict-resolution techniques," he suggests, "and regularly practice at least one technique that fits your style. As your comfort with conflict resolution grows, at least some of your direct reports will begin emulating... View Details
Keywords: by Lauren Keller Johnson
- Research Summary
Overview
My academic research centers on uncovering and closing gaps between the theory and reality of tax policy. My main contribution has been to identify and address a mismatch between the goals for taxation typically assumed in theory and the goals the public and... View Details
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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
or to "body fit in"? This session will provide you the opportunity to reflect on our standards of perfection, the price of success, and its relationship to the current mental health crisis in schools and workplaces. Geoffrey Jones (Isidor... View Details
Marty Blue
Marty spent 16 years in licensing at Reebok International predominantly as a licensor. She worked across a number of different brands (eg. Reebok, Weebok, Rockport, Greg Norman golf, and Boston Whaler) and product categories including kids footwear & apparel, sporting... View Details
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Course Development
By: Debora L. Spar
Managing International Trade and Investment
Despite the ease with which it is often conducted, doing business across borders is not the same as doing it at home. Rather, it entails a whole new set of managerial challenges: re-assessing competitive... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Boutique workouts brought to the busiest people, at home
As a former investment banking analyst and private equity associate, Prita Kumar (MBA 2014) knows what it means to be busy—so busy, in fact, that it was nearly impossible to incorporate the boutique fitness classes she cherished into her... View Details
- 14 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
Trust the Process, and Trust Yourself Even More: Interview with Wellness and Empowerment Leader, Dilan Gomih (MBA 2019)
another shot and afterward immediately felt how exercise improved her productivity and mindset. Gomih was hooked and started quickly introducing lifestyle changes to make fitness and wellness central to her life. Business School,... View Details
- Portrait Project
Jason Brown
I’m all too familiar with not fitting in. It started when I was young. Coming from a Filipino-Japanese-Caucasian family, I’ve never known anyone who looks like my brother and me. It got harder as a teenager. Never “one of the boys,” I was... View Details
- Profile
Prita Kumar
customer value. The dual tracks of business and fitness became deeply ingrained in Kumar’s psyche, along with a belief that she would someday start her own company. Kumar got her undergraduate degree in business at NYU’s Stern School and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Fever Pitch
great generation of small business owners. Most Innovative Selected by alumni and students BollyX Fitness (Northeastern US Region) Minal Mehta (MBA 2011) The world’s leading and fastest-growing Bollywood View Details
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Prita Kumar
operations. “The more I saw people transform businesses, the more I wanted to do that, rather than do analyses.” The right fit for entrepreneurship Prita came to HBS with a business idea she wanted to develop: Booya Fitness, “a Hulu for... View Details
- Profile
Minal Mehta
When did you and your cofounders come up with the idea of a Bollywood-inspired dance and fitness program? "I grew up splitting my time between swimming pools and dance studios. When I wasn't choreographing synchronized swimming... View Details
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Launching Tech Ventures - Course Catalog
(in a similar range of roles) that try to maintain a similar, nimble operating model as a startup. Those who are interested in investing in startups. The class focus is on pre-product-market fit technology-based ventures in a range of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Downhill Re-Boot
softer “walking” boot that fits into a carbon-fiber chassis that in turn fits into a ski binding. “Our whole design concept is first and foremost to have a boot that’s comfortable,” Hanson told the... View Details
- 01 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
CEOs and Coaches: How Important is Organizational 'Fit?'
enough? Do companies often try to fit square pegs in round holes when they hire exceptional managers? Does finding a “good fit” matter and does a “good fit” create value for a team or a company? Research has shown, quantitatively, that... View Details
- 18 Sep 2017
- Blog Post
Recruiting HBS MBA Students in 2017-2018
for that ‘just-right’ fit versus being one in a big hiring class of MBAs. Use the resume database to find the dozen or so candidates that fit your profile – and invite them to a 20-minute chat. These quick... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Snappy Salute
Pinchuk: CEO of a precision-tool company doesn’t exactly fit the mold. As CEO of Snap-on, Nicholas Pinchuk (MBA ’76) heads a company that’s all about precise fits for its tools. But he himself is no... View Details
- 10 Nov 2022
- News
Peloton Founder Starts His Next Trek
Photo courtesy Ernesta Peloton founder and former CEO John Foley (MBA 2001) is moving from home fitness to home decor. A recent press release announced that Foley and two of his Peloton cofounders are launching Ernesta, a... View Details