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- 10 May 2016
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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
- 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
- 31 May 2016
- First Look
May 31, 2016
additively separable in its state variables, leading to conquering the curse of dimensionality and the opportunity to manage the supply chain using independently acting managers. We develop conditions under which myopic policies are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 05 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Radical Change, Entrepreneurial Opportunity
advantage? It's a conscious strategy to play to their strengths? A: I think that's right. For instance, Polaroid identified digital imaging as an opportunity very early on; in fact, you could argue that its mindset in terms of what the firm was good at enabled it to... View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Put Meaning Back into Leading
early-twentieth-century social scientists is what we call "the meaning and organization problem." One of the main trends of modern society was the rise of large formal work organizations. Capitalists and managers encouraged the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower
entirely on faraway academics and organizations to solve local problems. This frustrates Ashraf, who for more than a decade has studied behavioral economics in the context of developing countries. She believes that global health... View Details
- 18 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool
difficult and time-consuming even in countries with sufficient medical resources, much less in developing countries where the need is great but fewer personnel have the time and training. Harvard researchers wondered: Could programmers... View Details
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
ignores the implications of past successes when valuing future innovation. We show that two firms that invest the exact same in research and development (R&D) can have quite divergent, but predictably divergent, future paths. Our... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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.
- 24 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017
introduces the product in China, he wonders if the product will be as successful as InMobi anticipates. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/516030-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 617-020 Indigo Agriculture Indigo Agriculture had... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jan 2020
- Op-Ed
Medicare for All or Public Option: Can Either Heal Health Care?
The United States has serious health care problems: More than 27 million uninsured people, costs that are growing faster than income, and a staggering $37 trillion of unfunded liabilities in the Medicare program. Perhaps most alarming: The US ranks lowest among View Details
- 24 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
Stimulus Surprise: Companies Retrench When Government Spends
congressional committee chairmanships? Joshua Coval: Our original goal was to investigate how politically connected firms benefit from increases in the power of their representatives. A benefit in focusing on changes in committee... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 3
of public-private partnerships, with particular attention to a model project in Miami, the Port Tunnel. The overview concludes with a call for cross-sector coalitions to develop strategies with long-term impact View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Climbing the Great Wall of Trust
five-point scale about how much they could rely on those partners to complete tasks effectively (in order to measure cognitive trust), and how much the partners shared the same goals and feelings (in order to measure affective trust).... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 16 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 16, 2010
psychology that accounts for behaviors inconsistent with ethical beliefs and describe how people reconcile their immoral actions with their ethical goals through the process of moral disengagement. We then examine how the mind selectively... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Inventing Products is Less Valuable Than Inventing Ideas
on the former can hurt the latter. Acquired by NewsCorp in 2005, MySpace exploited the commercial potential of social networking by selling ads to create profit; however, in focusing on commercialization too early it arguably failed to adequately View Details
- 06 Dec 2013
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Remember Nelson Mandela
it needs to go. The metaphor also hints at the agility of a group that doesn't have to wait for and then respond to a command from the front. That kind of agility is more likely to be developed by a group when a leader conceives of her... View Details
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
Nations Clean Development Mechanism Executive Board to China, for use of Arcadia's rice varieties, since they enabled farmers to reduce nitrogen fertilizer use, in turn lowering greenhouse gas emissions. But the company's proprietary... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 24, 2009
Information" (CWCI). The instructions that follow use datasets from three of the cases in the course: "Slots, Tables, and All That Jazz: Managing Customer Profitability at the MGM Grand Hotel," HBS No. 106-029; "MercadoLibre.com," HBS No.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace