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- 16 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Unfulfilled Promise of Educational Technology
over the last three decades, educational performance in the United States has shown only marginal improvement, and lags that of other developed countries in Europe and Asia. While some school districts have excelled, the majority of... View Details
- 20 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 20, 2007
understanding of design and manufacturing processes to instruct successfully her American and offshore contractors on how to mass-produce designer clothing at affordable prices. Claiborne was an industry pioneer in many ways. She View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
governance and civil society. At the same time, however, professionals in the West are under increasing pressure from commercialism or skepticism about their ability to rise above self-interest. This book focuses on professionals in China and asks whether View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 3
front-line workers who voice concerns and share ideas about how to solve problems. Our study is among the first to develop and empirically test theory about how specific management practices can encourage employees to speak up about... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Women Can Get More Venture Capital
landscape look like for women? Myra Hart: Let's start with, "Who do women entrepreneurs know and who knows them?" In spite of the fact that women are very good at networking, the reality is that they don't know many people in the financial community. My... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
- 09 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 9, 2018
formal approach to managing people—instituting regular meetings, setting goals consistently, and providing frequent feedback to employees—grew 28% larger and were 10 percentage points less likely to fail than those who got advice from... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Dec 2007
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Marketing
can be low growth and declining margins. The key challenge in aligning marketing activities with corporate strategy is to develop a set of metrics to be used by top executives and the board that measure the impact of marketing activities... View Details
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Entering the Age of Alliances
donor and grateful recipient, toward deeper, strategic alliances. These changes are already under way, and the changing alliance landscape is rich in variety, with businesses and nonprofits from Boston to Seattle finding new ways to work together to achieve their View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
- 20 Jun 2012
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching Leadership: What We Know
together what we've learned. This edited volume collects international scholars to not only put forward a foundational reference for leadership training but also to offer a community of practice where ideas can be developed and shared.... View Details
- 01 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
When Do Alliances Make Sense?
alliances with other firms. By looking at cases in which a solo firm narrowly outbid an alliance—or vice versa—Beshears could be confident he was looking at situations in which both types of business organizations were developing... 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
Wells, John R., and Gabriel Ellsworth. "24 Hour Fitness (B): Ownership Changes, 2005–2016." Harvard Business School Supplement 717-423, October 2016.
- 05 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Watching for the Next Economic Downturn? Follow Corporate Debt
crisis of 1994 The Asian financial crises of 1996 and 1997 The Argentinian crisis of 2001 The Eurozone crisis of 2009 and 2010 The authors parsed the in-depth data by industry. They focus on lending to: Agriculture, manufacturing, retail, and wholesale trade, which are... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
adding new settings to explore established core debates. The discipline of business history evolved around the corporate strategies and structures of developed economies. The growing literature on the business history of emerging markets... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Get Buried in Customer Data—Use It
immediately to his needs and create a better experience for him. "A company's goal should be to learn more about what each customer needs so that it can close the customer sacrifice gap, which is the difference between what... View Details
Keywords: by Jean Ayers
- 11 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 11, 2007
primary goals are to (a) develop and validate an interdisciplinary multidimensional model, which focuses on the complex interrelationships among requirements workflow related risk factors, individual, team... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 21
managed. Firms in developing countries, such as Brazil, China, and India tend to be poorly managed. American retail firms and hospitals are also well managed by international standards, although American schools are more poorly managed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019
incompatibility. We also investigate how factors such as exclusive content and hardware-only adopters affect compatibility incentives. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55682 January 4, 2019 Harvard Business Review How Companies Can... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 10 May 2016
- First Look
May 10, 2016
pre-structured archives, unstructured (“hand-collected”) archives, eld studies, eld experiments, surveys, laboratory studies, and laboratory experiments. The framework spells out ve goals of an empirical literature and de nes the seven... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Have a Better Idea To Improve Health Care?
system, while 20 percent felt "strongly negative." The feedback resulted in a call to arms, a report that detailed five imperatives to improve the situation. Among these imperatives: the need to integrate newly developed approaches into... View Details
- 15 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Does a Social Startup Decide to Commercialize? It May Depend on the Founder's Gender
consistent with the goals and motivations of the social sector,” they write. “Men, on the other hand, are seen to be stereotypically competitive, risk taking, and agentic, attributes consistent with the View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel