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- 28 Sep 2017
- News
An electoral French revolution
- 20 Jan 2015
- News
To Invest, or Not, as China Shifts
- 02 Dec 2019
- News
The World Is Doing Much Better Than the Bad News Makes Us Think
- Web
Executive Education - Leadership
advantage in any economy. Senior Executive Leadership Program—China HBS Campus | 13 OCT 2024–25 APR 2025 Embrace an innovative and global approach to lead your organization in China with strategic vision and achieve HBS alumni status....
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Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni
for more than 10 years while serving on the firm's global Stewards Council. He is married to Svetlana Dunaevskaya, a University of Pennsylvania alumna. They have two children. Max Belingheri (MBA 2001)...
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- 31 Oct 2023
- HBS Case
Checking Your Ethics: Would You Speak Up in These 3 Sticky Situations?
loyalties among clients, colleagues, and partners can present ethical issues that can be difficult to manage, says David Fubini, a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School. “You are an adviser. You are not an employee of the company you are advising,” says Fubini,...
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Lifelong Learning - Alumni
compete, to foreseeing existential threats that could obviate one’s business. 31232 02 Jan 2024 HBS Working Knowledge 10 Trends to Watch in 2024 Harvard Business School faculty members on the trends they will be following in the year...
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- July 2019 (Revised May 2021)
- Case
Acelerex
By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
In early 2019, Randell Johnson, Founder and Chief Executive of Acelerex, was reflecting on the company’s first year of rapid growth and the challenges of scaling the business that lay ahead. Acelerex was riding the waves of change taking place in electrical power grids...
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Energy;
Energy Sources;
Growth Management;
Expansion;
Global Strategy;
Cash Flow;
Energy Industry;
Web Services Industry;
Consulting Industry
Wells, John R., and Benjamin Weinstock. "Acelerex." Harvard Business School Case 720-360, July 2019. (Revised May 2021.)
- November 2005 (Revised December 2016)
- Case
Bally Total Fitness (A): The Rise, 1962–2004
By: John R. Wells, Elizabeth A. Raabe and Gabriel Ellsworth
From a single, modest club in 1962, Bally Total Fitness had grown to become—in management’s words—the “largest and only nationwide commercial operator of fitness centers” in the United States in 2004. Bally had faced its share of challenges, but the last couple of...
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Bally Total Fitness;
Fitness;
Gyms;
Health Clubs;
Chain;
Securities And Exchange Commission;
Paul Toback;
Weight Loss;
Exercise;
Contracts;
Personal Training;
Retention;
Accounting;
Accounting Audits;
Accrual Accounting;
Finance;
Advertising;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Business Model;
For-Profit Firms;
Customers;
Customer Satisfaction;
Public Equity;
Financing and Loans;
Revenue;
Revenue Recognition;
Geographic Scope;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Health;
Nutrition;
Business History;
Lawsuits and Litigation;
Management;
Business or Company Management;
Goals and Objectives;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Marketing;
Operations;
Service Delivery;
Service Operations;
Public Ownership;
Problems and Challenges;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Business Strategy;
Competition;
Corporate Strategy;
Expansion;
Segmentation;
Trends;
Cost Management;
Profit;
Growth and Development;
Leadership Style;
Five Forces Framework;
Private Ownership;
Opportunities;
Motivation and Incentives;
Competitive Strategy;
Health Industry;
United States;
Illinois;
Chicago
Wells, John R., Elizabeth A. Raabe, and Gabriel Ellsworth. "Bally Total Fitness (A): The Rise, 1962–2004." Harvard Business School Case 706-450, November 2005. (Revised December 2016.)
- 17 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
What the Stockdale Paradox Tells Us About Crisis Leadership
States as one of the 15 “safe countries” whose citizens may enter freely. Meanwhile, many leaders are reporting that their teams—or they themselves—have crashed into a wall of demotivation and despair. The Stockdale Paradox, made famous...
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by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 25 Apr 2018
- Blog Post
Policy, Practice, Leadership & Impact: Making a Difference with the HBS/HKS Joint Degree
Swaziland to work with the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) until two years later she was admitted into the HBS/HKS Joint Degree Program. We caught up with Nanako to learn more about her experience with the HBS/HKS joint degree...
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Nonprofit / Government
- 17 Aug 2023
- Research & Ideas
‘Not a Bunch of Weirdos’: Why Mainstream Investors Buy Crypto
In a little more than a decade, investors have transformed cryptocurrency from a techno-curiosity into a trillion-dollar-plus opportunity that has the potential to one day reshape the global economy. Yet in the past 10 years, little has...
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by Ben Rand
- 29 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 29, 2008
weaknesses relative to other top schools, the political challenges of organizational change, and the most appropriate strategy for the Dean to follow. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=608087 Indesit Company: Does View Details
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Martha Lagace
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Meredith Hamilton
Home for Children (EVP & COO), Jumpstart (Strategy & Operations SVP), Citizen Schools (HBS Leadership Fellow), Teach for America (Summer Intern), The Guidance Center (Fundraising Manager), Prudential (Management Associate)
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- 21 Mar 2016
- Blog Post
MBA/MPA-ID: The Intersection of Policy and Business
honing different and yet comparably important skills for business and policy global leaders. Born and raised in Kampala, Uganda, I was probably predisposed to develop passions contiguous to the phenomenon of development, which arguably...
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Mark your calendars! HBS Executive Education reunions are back on campus!
select your sessions and evening dinner events Check the reunions website for updates Download the HBS Mobile App to access updates and news all year round From your first cold call to your last reunion, you're part of HBS for Life. We...
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- 03 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
HiHome Sweet HiHome
The story of HiHome is really the story of all the resources available to students at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering (SEAS). Co-founders James Parker and Tony Shu met at a SEAS event in 2019. Parker was in his first View Details
- October 1997
- Case
L'Oreal of Paris: Bringing 'Class to Mass' with Plenitude
By: Robert J. Dolan
L'Oreal's strategy is to "trickle down" technology over time from high-end outlets like department stores to mass-markets, such as drugstores. The mass market brand Plenitude has become the market leader in France, but even eight years after introduction in the United...
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Keywords:
Problems and Challenges;
Marketing Strategy;
Brands and Branding;
Globalization;
Beauty and Cosmetics Industry;
Retail Industry;
France;
United States
Dolan, Robert J. "L'Oreal of Paris: Bringing 'Class to Mass' with Plenitude." Harvard Business School Case 598-056, October 1997.
- 20 Aug 2024
- Cold Call Podcast
Angel City Football Club: A New Business Model for Women’s Sports
- 20 Aug 2024
- Interview
Angel City Football Club: A New Business Model for Women’s Sports
By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Brian Kenny and Nicole Tempest Keller
Angel City Football Club (ACFC) was founded in 2020 by venture capitalist Kara Nortman, entrepreneur Julie Uhrman, and actor and activist Natalie Portman. As outsiders to professional sports, the all-female founding team had rewritten the playbook for how to build a...
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"Angel City Football Club: A New Business Model for Women’s Sports." Cold Call (podcast), Harvard Business Review Group, August 20, 2024. (Interviewed by Brian Kenny.)