Fitness - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2009
News

Professor, Historian, and Storyteller

encompasses the birth of the consumer society, the shift away from an industrial economy, and the decline of the social contract between companies and workers. So the Times articles were chosen — from a huge array of possibilities — to View Details

Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Dec 2011
News

Li & Fung's Global Footprint

company is that when we hire people, we always hire for attitude. We don’t hire for skills. We hire for attitude because we feel skills can be taught and trained. But if you have the wrong attitude, no matter how skillful you are, you’re not going to View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Wholesale Trade

04 Dec 2012
First Look

First Look: December 4

fiscal 2000, Circuit City was at the top of its game. The world's leading consumer electronics retailer had delivered record sales and profits for the first year of the new millennium. It was a fitting moment for Richard Sharpe, the CEO... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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Faculty & Advisors | MBA

Seattle-based health & fitness technology company, where he helped take the business from 0 to 1, and far beyond in his 7 year tenure. He has worked in a diverse set of industries including health & fitness, fintech, defense, retail, and... View Details

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Frequently Asked Questions - Alumni

contribution or bringing one item. Social outings mutually agreed upon by members, such as happy hour, art workshop, fitness class, etc. What if there is pre-existing conflict with another member? Every member should feel comfortable in... View Details

25 Aug 2022
News

Vision: To Go-Go

can build a multibillion-dollar business capable of identifying the next big food trend and propagating it across a vast network of cloud kitchens. “We only have 80 kitchens right now,” Azuero says. “We believe we can easily fit 1,000... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; entrepreneurship; foodtech; startup; Latin America

01 Dec 2015
News

Giving Advice

what guidelines might you suggest? —Norm Boone (MBA 1977) DITKOFF: At Bridgespan, we define impact investing as “investing capital to generate social impact in a way that also provides monetary returns.” As you can see, a broad spectrum of activities View Details

19 Jan 2016
News

Electric Avenues

Everywhere—Finally Fit to Drink On the heels of this past summer’s crippling drought, California hit the switch on a long-promised technological solution to the water crisis: desalination. Poseidon Water’s $1 billion plant in Carlsbad... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

01 Sep 2004
News

A Market-Based Prescription

they price their products depend on consumer demand, value, and traditional market forces. Our present system suppresses these forces and innovation. Doctors can only provide services that fit static billing and payment codes. These codes... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance

27 May 2020
Research & Ideas

What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID

mass infection in South Korea—a mass religious gathering, a call center, a dance fitness center, and, most recently, a night club. All of these instances took place in closed, confined indoor areas with limited ventilation and with people... View Details

Keywords: by Doug J. Chung; Health

20 Jan 2010
First Look

First Look: Jan. 20

Yi-Ling WeiHarvard Business School Case 610-005 Tony Lo, the CEO of Giant Manufacturing, the largest bicycle manufacturer in the world, finally realized that his products were not meeting the needs of women customers when even his wife complained to him that the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

03 Jun 2008
First Look

First Look: June 3, 2008

objectives of a laptop computer targeted at children of the developing world with the escalating content demands from the marketplace and the non-profit OLPC Foundation. It also had to fit the project into its company business model which... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

20 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

Are Company Founders Underpaid?

steward ideal than to the agents described in agency theory. Stewardship theory is far less known and probably doesn't apply as much to most executives, but it seems to fit founders very well. Executive compensation provides one test of... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Financial Services; Technology

01 Dec 1997
News

A Piece of the Action

some success with three different patent-based ventures, for instance—and Darwall will see if she can find a subject that fits the bill. An HBS Outpost While research is the primary function of the CRC, there is also an opportunity and a... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Sep 2015
News

The Business of Love

Illustrations by Istvan Banyai By the standards of the algorithmic, instant-judgment online dating age, Jess Kushner (MBA 2008) and Ken Deckinger have a story fit for an old-fashioned romantic comedy. In 2003, Deckinger was running a... View Details

Keywords: April White

14 Apr 2015
First Look

First Look: April 14

Applied Corporate Finance When One Size Doesn't Fit All: Evolving Directions in the Research and Practice of Enterprise Risk Management By: Mikes, Anette, and Robert S. Kaplan Abstract—Enterprise risk management (ERM) has become a crucial... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Feb 2007
Research & Ideas

Business and the Global Poor

Are the world's poor, who individually have less than $5 a day in disposable income, a viable market for new goods and services? Consider the fact that there are four billion people around the globe that fit this description and you have... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

19 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Do I Dare Say Something?

Similarly, senior management in any type of firm can consciously or unconsciously fail to utilize the formal mechanisms that facilitate speaking up. In fact, much of our research has been conducted in settings that don't fit the... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

02 Sep 2002
Research & Ideas

The Role of Government When All Else Fails

of these policies—and many others like them—operate in very similar ways, which is why a comparative perspective is so helpful. Once we understand that a great many seemingly unrelated policies all fit under the rubric of risk management,... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard

22 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”

and practices, or to product developments in complementary industries."14 However, another leading strategist, Igor Ansoff, argued that Levitt was asking companies to take unnecessary risks by investing in new products that might not View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat

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