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  • June 2004
  • Case

TechnoServe and the Tanzanian Specialty Coffee Industry

In 2003, TechnoServe, a U.S.-based, international, nonprofit organization, was deciding how to structure the capital investments required for Tanzanian business groups to acquire coffee bean central pulperies. This case explores the challenges of capital budgeting and... View Details
Keywords: Small Business; Nonprofit Organizations; Cash Flow; Emerging Markets; Financing and Loans; Capital Budgeting; Tanzania
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Hecht, Peter A., and Salim Haji. "TechnoServe and the Tanzanian Specialty Coffee Industry." Harvard Business School Case 204-153, June 2004.
  • October 2016
  • Case

The Quiet Ascension of LA Fitness

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
In 2016, LA Fitness was the largest chain of non-franchised fitness clubs in North America, operating 676 clubs, serving 4.9 million members, and generating revenues of over $1.9 billion. Founded by Chinyol Yi, Louis Welch, and Paul Norris in 1984, the privately held... View Details
Keywords: LA Fitness; Health Clubs; Fitness; Gyms; Chain; Exercise; Personal Training; Retention; Bally Total Fitness; 24 Hour Fitness; Planet Fitness; Buildings and Facilities; Acquisition; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; For-Profit Firms; Customers; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Satisfaction; Demographics; Age; Gender; Income; Residency; Borrowing and Debt; Capital; Capital Structure; Cash; Cash Flow; Cost; Private Equity; Financial Condition; Financial Liquidity; Financing and Loans; Investment Return; Price; Profit; Revenue; Geographic Location; Geographic Scope; Multinational Firms and Management; Business History; Employees; Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Human Capital; Contracts; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Operations; Service Operations; Leasing; Private Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Sales; Salesforce Management; Situation or Environment; Opportunities; Sports; Strategy; Business Strategy; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Corporate Strategy; Expansion; Segmentation; Information Technology; Mobile Technology; Technology Platform; Health Industry; United States; California; Los Angeles
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Wells, John R., and Gabriel Ellsworth. "The Quiet Ascension of LA Fitness." Harvard Business School Case 717-424, October 2016.
  • 31 Jul 2018
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Are Stock Buybacks Starving the Economy?

  • 27 Mar 2012
  • First Look

First Look: March 27

note:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/812100-PDF-ENG Hypothesis-Driven Entrepreneurship: The Lean Startup Thomas Eisenmann, Eric Ries, and Sarah DillardHarvard Business School Note 812-095 Firms that follow a hypothesis-driven... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 21 Jan 2021
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Companies tap management gurus to tackle ‘unknowns’

  • 2010
  • Article

We Cannot Go On: Disruptive Innovation and the First World War Royal Navy

By: Gautam Mukunda
Insights from Disruptive Innovation theory (DI) are often used in the formulation, implementation, and evaluation of national security policy. DI explains why successful companies are sometimes defeated by new competitors with relatively unsophisticated products.... View Details
Keywords: Technology; History; National Security; Framework; Adaptation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Technological Innovation; Machinery and Machining; Disruptive Innovation; Theory; Developing Countries and Economies; Technology Industry
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Mukunda, Gautam. "We Cannot Go On: Disruptive Innovation and the First World War Royal Navy." Security Studies 19, no. 1 (2010).

    Peter Tufano

    Peter Tufano is a Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School and Senior Advisor to the Harvard Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability. From 2011 to 2021, he served as the Peter Moores Dean at View Details

    Keywords: investment banking industry; investment banking industry; investment banking industry; investment banking industry; investment banking industry; investment banking industry; investment banking industry; investment banking industry; investment banking industry; investment banking industry; investment banking industry; investment banking industry; investment banking industry; investment banking industry; investment banking industry; investment banking industry; investment banking industry; investment banking industry; investment banking industry; investment banking industry
    • September 2007
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    Relevance and Rigor: Executive Education as a Lever in Shaping Practice and Research

    By: Michael L. Tushman, Amy Fenollosa, Dan McGrath, Charles A. O'Reilly and Adam Michael Kleinbaum
    As professional schools, business schools aspire to couple research rigor with managerial relevance. There has been, however, a concern that business schools are increasingly uncoupled from practice and that business school research lacks real world relevance. This... View Details
    Keywords: Business Education; Executive Education; Learning; Teaching; Management; Practice; Research
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    Tushman, Michael L., Amy Fenollosa, Dan McGrath, Charles A. O'Reilly, and Adam Michael Kleinbaum. "Relevance and Rigor: Executive Education as a Lever in Shaping Practice and Research." Academy of Management Learning & Education 6, no. 3 (September 2007): 345–365.
    • 09 May 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    Clayton Christensen’s “How Will You Measure Your Life?”

    relying on chance—on the currents of life—to guide us." Christensen also believes that certain common business principles are misguided and even dangerous. In the following excerpt, he explains why focusing on marginal costs and... View Details
    • 25 Jul 2012
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    Fidelity Joins BlackRock in Weighing Libor Action Against Banks

    • 28 Mar 2017
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    Japan’s Misaki Capital teaches Harvard about taking the long view

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    Louisa Mojela & Gloria Serobe

    Gloria Serobe, Co-Founder and Group Chief Executive Officer of WIPHOLD, outlines the founding vision for the Black women-owned investment company in 1994, as opportunities in business remained largely unavailable to women in South Africa despite having recently become... View Details
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    Association of the Meaningful Use Electronic Health Record Incentive Program with Health Information Technology Venture Capital Funding

    By: Samuel Lite, William J. Gordon and Ariel Dora Stern
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    Although the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act has accelerated electronic health record (EHR) adoption since its passage, clinician satisfaction with EHRs remains low, and the association of HITECH with... View Details
    Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Information Technology; Laws and Statutes; Innovation and Invention; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital
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    Lite, Samuel, William J. Gordon, and Ariel Dora Stern. "Association of the Meaningful Use Electronic Health Record Incentive Program with Health Information Technology Venture Capital Funding." JAMA Network Open 3, no. 3 (March 2020).
    • November 2013 (Revised May 2023)
    • Case

    Valuing Yahoo! in 2013

    By: Luis M. Viceira and Atul Khosla
    In late July 2013, Danielle Engle, Managing Director of Clairemont Capital, was contemplating what to do about a large investment her fund had in the stock of Yahoo! Inc. In mid-2012, Clairemont had invested nearly $75M in Yahoo! after the tech company settled a highly... View Details
    Keywords: Investment; Decision Making; Investment Activism; Business Model; Growth and Development Strategy; Valuation
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    Viceira, Luis M., and Atul Khosla. "Valuing Yahoo! in 2013." Harvard Business School Case 214-048, November 2013. (Revised May 2023.)
    • April 2014
    • Case

    Ford Motor Company: Blueprint for Mobility

    By: Karim R. Lakhani, Marco Iansiti and Noah Fisher
    Mark Fields, Ford Motor Company's COO, had to ensure the company's current business model of building cars and trucks remained strong, while concurrently navigating the company into the rapidly expanding industry of personal mobility. Personal mobility required new... View Details
    Keywords: Automobiles; Automobile Manufacturing; Ford Motor Company; Mark Fields; Blueprint For Mobility; Dearborn; Michigan; Car Sharing; Parking; On-demand Ride Sharing; Strategy; Business Model; Auto Industry; Michigan; United States
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    Lakhani, Karim R., Marco Iansiti, and Noah Fisher. "Ford Motor Company: Blueprint for Mobility." Harvard Business School Case 614-018, April 2014.
    • March 2016 (Revised June 2017)
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    Transition at DataCo?

    By: Frank V. Cespedes and Carin-Isabel Knoop
    The founder of a data analytics company, Stefan Brecht, has several issues with his key business developer and head of marketing and sales, Tamara Smithson. Smithson, an early hire who had been instrumental in building the firm; operates as an individual contributor;... View Details
    Keywords: Sales Management; Selling; Entrepreneurial Ventures; Performance Management; Professional Services; Salesforce Management; Sales; Marketing; Performance; Consulting Industry; United States; France
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    Cespedes, Frank V., and Carin-Isabel Knoop. "Transition at DataCo?" Harvard Business School Case 816-058, March 2016. (Revised June 2017.)
    • 22 Dec 2015
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    Bringing ‘Presence’ To Your Life

    • 15 Jan 2020
    • Video

    Rahmi M. Koç

    Rahmi Koç, former Chair of of Koç Holding, the largest diversified business group in Turkey, relates how difficult it is to bring foreign investments to Turkey, in part due to its location in a volatile region... View Details
    • 13 May 2021
    • News

    O'Hanley Talks ESG

    • 20 Oct 2021
    • News

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