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  • 26 Jan 2016
  • First Look

January 26, 2016

core markets, while also winning in new domains. Clayton M. Christensen has been pessimistic about whether established companies can prevail in the face of disruption. Charles A. O'Reilly III and Michael L. Tushman have a contrasting point of view. The authors explain... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Aug 2007
  • First Look

First Look: August 7, 2007

H. Carpenter Abstract Front-line staff possess an immense amount of functional and experiential knowledge from which their organizations can learn. This paper examines two distinct processes for leveraging front-line staff knowledge in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Jul 2001
  • Research & Ideas

How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future

with our own money, we'll maybe add a store or two." Sam Walton died in 1992, a year in which Wal-Mart ran more than 1,900 stores with over 430,000 employees. Sales topped $55 billion, making it the world's largest retailer, and... View Details
Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow
  • 02 Aug 2016
  • First Look

August 2, 2016

The Unintended Consequences of the Zero Lower Bound Policy By: Di Maggio, Marco, and Marcin Kacperczyk Abstract—We study the impact of the zero lower bound interest rate policy on the industrial organization of the U.S. money fund... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Sep 2024
  • HBS Case

McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace

appointment if the consultant was removed from the McDonald’s account, and the deal was sealed. Easterbrook restructured the organization, increased the number of franchises, boosted pay for employees, and introduced all-day breakfast, which was wildly successful. By... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman; Food & Beverage
  • 01 Mar 2009
  • News

Your Taxi Is Waiting

organizations tighten their belts by simply cutting travel across the board? “I think the core issue for everyone is the same, which is how do you buy time?” remarks HBS professor Bill Sahlman, coauthor with Jackie Donnelly Russell (MBA... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Air Transportation; Transportation
  • 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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  • 12 Dec 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017

fulfillment drive work engagement. Employees have needs (e.g., a desire to be authentic) and they also have expectations for how their job or their organization will fulfill them. We argue that experiences at work that confirm employees’... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 1996
  • News

An Entrepreneurial Journey

former partner and current HBS assistant professor Myra Maloney Hart (MBA '81, DBA '95) - Stemberg created a company whose sales of $3.1 billion in 1995 are expected to surpass $10 billion when a merger with Office Depot becomes official... View Details
  • 08 May 2019
  • News

Lessons from the Ashes

Australian dollar takeover, which in US dollars probably somewhere north of $1.5 billion. So a lot of money, one of the biggest takeovers in this Australian corporate history. I was organizing all of that and leading up to the takeover I... View Details
  • 02 Oct 2017
  • News

Radical Generosity for the Real World

have been and what was still possible for someone like Nasaru. Hanna: You also got to witness that process in your church, when your church received a significant windfall from the sale of some real estate. And I wondered if you could... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2010
  • News

Lords of Strategy

the best can be fairly hermaphroditic creatures, one minute exhibiting a professor’s passion for the great clarifying concept, the next displaying sales skills worthy of a street hustler. Among my contentions is that it was this very... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 15 Jun 2021
  • News

Alumni Achievement Awards 2021

being denied on-campus housing because of his race. Fitzhugh hoped to go into sales and marketing, but companies at the time had little interest in hiring an African American. While working as an independent print salesman in Washington,... View Details
  • 15 Dec 2015
  • First Look

December 15, 2015

Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50235 forthcoming Organization Science Scrutiny, Norms, and Selective Disclosure: A Global Study of Greenwashing By: Marquis, Christopher, Michael W. Toffel, and Yanhua Zhou... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 02 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 2

positive earnings surprises and positive analyst revisions in the months following passage of the bill, as well as significantly higher future sales and profitability. We show that the more complex the legislation, the more difficulty the... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 21 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 21, 2008

Cases & Course MaterialsBMW's Project Switch (A): Importers vs. National Sales Companies Harvard Business School Case 509-023 BMW is faced with potential channel conflicts across several EU country markets. The case highlights BMW's... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jun 2018
  • News

June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

less than $1 million in sales and 28 employees. But by 2007, Barker Steel was one of the largest independent rebar fabricators in North America with 12 locations throughout the Northeast, generating in some years more than $200 million in... View Details
  • 27 Feb 2007
  • First Look

First Look: February 27, 2007

some stake in the company and continue to participate in its management? Should they auction off their shares to the highest bidder and exit? Or should they play a role in the global beer industry through a stock-for-stock sale to InBev,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Feb 2021
  • Blog Post

SIPs in 2021

absence. She built trust with us early on and we were able to go so much deeper as a result.” Startup Bootcamp Over at Startup Bootcamp, which in 2017 pioneered the concept of short January courses (SIPs), organizers Allison Mnookin,... View Details
  • 09 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 9, 2008

contribute to understanding the contingent effects of policy on organizations and the rise of large corporations in the twentieth century. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-025.pdf Over-reaction to Demand Changes Due... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne