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Driving Impact in Emerging Markets with HBS Alum Nneka Chime (MBA 2015) - Recruiting

Insights & Advice 22 Mar 2024 Driving Impact in Emerging Markets with HBS Alum Nneka Chime (MBA 2015) Becca Carnahan Author HBS Team tag Alumni Student & Alumni Stories Nneka Chime’s (MBA 2015) career path offers an alternative road map... View Details
  • October 2016
  • Supplement

24 Hour Fitness (B): Ownership Changes, 2005–2016

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
In 2016, 24 Hour Fitness was the number-two fitness chain in the United States, generating revenues of $1.4 billion from 441 clubs serving 3.8 million members. Based in San Ramon, California, 24 Hour Fitness operated clubs in 13 states. Having grown rapidly to become... View Details
Keywords: Advertising; Advertising Campaigns; Buildings and Facilities; Acquisition; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Business Organization; For-Profit Firms; Customers; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Satisfaction; Age; Training; Private Equity; Financing and Loans; Price; Profit; Revenue; Geographic Location; Geographic Scope; Health; Nutrition; Business History; Human Resources; Employees; Employee Relationship Management; Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Journals and Magazines; Human Capital; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Teams; Marketing; Brands and Branding; Marketing Channels; Marketing Communications; Marketing Strategy; Social Marketing; Demand and Consumers; Market Entry and Exit; Media; Organizational Design; Private Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Groups and Teams; Sales; Salesforce Management; Situation or Environment; Welfare or Wellbeing; Sports; Strategy; Business Strategy; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Corporate Strategy; Expansion; Segmentation; Information Technology; Internet; Mobile Technology; Online Technology; Software; Web Sites; Value; Valuation; Health Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; United States; California; San Francisco
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  • June 2011 (Revised September 2011)
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Tough Choices for the Illinois Pension System

By: Robert C. Pozen and Brij S. Khurana
This case describes the precarious fiscal situation of the Illinois public pension system in the spring of 2009 and the accounting of pension plans by non-federal municipalities more generally. In February 2009, in the midst of a recession, recently-appointed Governor... View Details
Keywords: Budgets and Budgeting; Financial Crisis; Financial Liquidity; Annuities; Financial Management; Financing and Loans; Taxation; Strategic Planning; Problems and Challenges; Illinois
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Becoming an Entrepreneur - Alumni

Center for Entrepreneurship The Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship is a vital resource to HBS students and a champion for entrepreneurship at HBS. Are you an entrepreneur? Need advice on pitch feedback or startup challenges? HBS... View Details
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MBA Elective Curriculum-- Competing Through Business Models

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell

The  words  “business  model”  are  inescapable  in  our  daily  fare of  business  news.  These  two ubiquitous words seemed to effortlessly rise up to prominence during the dot-com boom of the late 1990s. When businesspeople, journalists, academics, and other... View Details

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Business Finance Course Online | HBS Online

Harvard Business School. Leading with Finance helps students understand key financial levers that drive financial performance, examine how the capital markets work, develop a toolkit for making smart financial decisions, and gain the... View Details
  • 28 Feb 2019
  • News

New Program Will Develop Leaders of Innovative Ventures

passionate about making a difference in the world—and many of them are driven to create,” says SEAS Dean Frank Doyle. “Thanks to the generous support of the Roberts family, this program will equip a cohort of remarkable students with new... View Details
  • 12 Mar 2021
  • News

My Favorite Case

acquisition-led growth? What will be the impact of increased competition from private equity players? For how long can its strategy of “continuous improvement” continue? “I’m the chief human resources officer of a Fortune 500 company, and... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 23 May 2018
  • Research & Ideas

How to Know If Your Neighborhood Is Being Gentrified

Luca, Harvard University Economics Professor Edward L. Glaeser, and HBS doctoral student Hyunjin Kim. The researchers combined data from US Census reports, the Federal Housing Finance Agency, Google Street View, and Yelp to explore... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
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Meagan Hill

Meagan Hill enrolled in Harvard College with the intention of going on to medical school. But through her work at Harvard Student Agencies — a conglomerate of nine businesses that offer students hands-on... View Details
Keywords: Financial Services
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Dillon House | About

provides administrative space for MBA Admissions staff, who welcome legions of prospective students to campus throughout the year and annually review thousands of applications submitted by candidates from across the globe. Accepted MBA... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2002
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Up to the Challenge: Ipsita Dasgupta - Global Perspective, Local Results

and lawyer, has worked with underserved populations around the world. “At our house, every dinner table discussion was like a BGIE class,” Dasgupta laughs. “I grew up influenced by both my parents — I'm very interested in the private... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; development; leadership; social issues; management; technology; Finance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
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General Management Curriculum - Faculty & Research

General Management Overview Faculty Curriculum Awards & Honors Doctoral Students MBA Required Curriculum (FIRST YEAR) Leadership and Corporate Accountability In this course, students learn about the complex... View Details
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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Finance Overview Faculty Curriculum Seminars & Conferences Awards & Honors Doctoral Students 2025 Samuel B. Antill : Winner of the 2025 Rising Scholar Award from The Review of Financial Studies for "Are Bankruptcy Professional Fees... View Details
  • December 2006 (Revised October 2016)
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eClinicalWorks: The Paths to Growth

By: Robert F. Higgins and Mark Rennella
In January 2006, eClinicalWorks (eCW) had an acquisition opportunity that could fundamentally change the way they had done business since the inception of the company in 1999. eClinicalWorks was a privately run business in the healthcare information technology field... View Details
Keywords: Young Companies; Strategic Revelation; Strategy And Execution; Strategy Development; Strategy And Leadership; Financing Strategy; Financing Risk; Financing; Expansion; Business Growth and Maturation; Organizational Culture; Financing and Loans; Customer Focus and Relationships; Acquisition; Growth and Development Strategy; Information Technology Industry; Health Industry; Massachusetts
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  • March 2021 (Revised April 2021)
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Making Impact Investing Markets: IFC (A)

By: Shawn A. Cole, John Masko and T. Robert Zochowski
In 2017, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) faced the first big investment decision in its new Scaling Solar project. Founded in 1956, IFC was an international investment body with national governments as shareholders, whose mission was to promote economic... View Details
Keywords: Impact Investing; Development Economics; Developing Countries and Economies; Renewable Energy; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Borrowing and Debt; Credit; Equity; Bonds; Financing and Loans; Growth and Development; Emerging Markets; Non-Governmental Organizations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Investment; Decision Making; Financial Services Industry; Energy Industry; Zambia
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  • 16 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 16

managerial skill, and significant alignment of interests. All these abound in the private sector. Thus major opportunities exist for businesses that can create and claim value by improving resource efficiency. The products and services... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
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Marketing Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Marketing Overview Faculty Curriculum Seminars & Conferences Awards & Honors Doctoral Students 2025 Eva Ascarza : Recipient of a 2024–2025 HBS Required Curriculum (RC) Case Award for "Artea: Designing Targeting Strategies" (HBS Case... View Details
  • 02 Feb 2022
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How I Spent My HBS 2+2 Deferral: Nikki Philip

The HBS 2+2 program is a deferred admission process for current students in their final year of study, either in college or a full-time master’s degree program. If you are admitted through 2+2, you work for two to four years in a field of... View Details
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Hamilton Hall | About

Hamilton Hall Hamilton Hall is one of seven buildings named for notable secretaries of the United States Treasury at the suggestion of George F. Baker. Hamilton Hall is named for Alexander Hamilton. A four-story, brick, Georgian Revival-style View Details