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About - Business & Environment

Elective Curriculum course Tough Tech Ventures, which will include climate related topics. BiGS Climate Fellows Jonas Meckling Associate professor at the University of View Details

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Find a Club - Alumni

2004 Mrs. Ebony Simone Morczinek, MBA 2007 HBS Association of Hong Kong President Ms. Jolie Chow, MBA 2010 HBS Association of New Zealand President Dr. Claudia U. Wyss, MBA 2005 HBS Association View Details

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Curriculum - Case Method Project

particular focus on a populist movement to grant universal white male suffrage in 1840s Rhode Island. The case raises questions about the nature of voting rights and whether citizens have a right to... View Details

15 Aug 2023
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(Virtual) Reality Check: How Long Before We Live in the 'Metaverse'?

the case with HBS professor David B. Yoffie, the Max and Doris Starr Professor of International Business Administration at HBS, and Matt Higgins, now a senior researcher at the HBS California Research... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Technology; Computer; Information Technology

05 Aug 2022
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Why People Crave Feedback—and Why We’re Afraid to Give It

doctoral students Nicole Abi-Esber and Jennifer Abel, and Juliana Schroeder, an associate professor at the University of California, Berkeley Haas School View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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PRIMO Alumni Profiles - Doctoral

Berkeley as a rising junior. She worked with Professor Jackie Lane in the Technology and Operations Unit during PRIMO Summer 2023. Read more about Stella here. Shira Li Harvard College, Class of 2019;... View Details

01 Mar 2019
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The Burden Legacy

16, landed his first job as a reporter and camera assistant with a New York newsreel company. He joined RKO Pictures in California in 1929, rising from production assistant to associate producer. At the dawn View Details

Keywords: Linda Kush

30 Mar 2021
Research & Ideas

Commuting Hurts Productivity and Your Best Talent Suffers Most

the three-year analysis he conducted with coauthors Hongyu Xiao and Jaeho Kim, both of the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. The results provide an important lesson... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

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Partners - Case Method Project

High School Oceanside, CA Subjects: American Government CA 64 of 65 Amanda Toporek Berkeley High School Berkeley, CA CA 65 of 65 Daniel Toyama Cerritos High School Cerritos, CA... View Details

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Resources - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

Teaching Excellence University of California, Berkeley The Center for Teaching and Learning University of Chicago... View Details

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About - Global

Japan Research Center opens in Tokyo. 2000 Latin America Research Center opens. 1999 Asia-Pacific Research Center opens in Hong Kong. 1997 California Research Center opens in Silicon Valley. 1996 The Global Initiative is formed, building... View Details

October 2016
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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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Events - Business History

Carolyn Roberts, Yale University Oct 4 04 Oct 2021 Business History Seminar: Global Business and Society “Human Resources or Liability Management? The Rise of Compliance in HR” Caitlin Rosenthal, View Details

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Research Resources - Doctoral

Global Research Activities Africa Asia-Pacific California Europe Japan Latin America Middle East & North Africa South Asia Harvard University Harvard University Libraries HBS... View Details

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Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship | About

in turn have helped companies create hundreds of thousands of jobs and change our lives, in the workplace and at home.” Arthur Rock (MBA 1951) graduated from Syracuse View Details

20 Dec 2010
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Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround

A favorite topic of historians and palindrome fans alike, the Panama Canal has perpetually changed the international trade business. In their new book, The Big Ditch: How America Took, Built, Ran, and Ultimately Gave Away the Panama Canal... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Transportation

01 Dec 2023
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Wide Horizon

IP rights for suramin, a century-old drug historically used to treat African sleeping sickness, a parasitic disease, and later tested as a treatment for metastatic cancer. N of One had supported a trial by researchers at the View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Photos by Sarah Wilson

23 Sep 2022
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8 Strategies to Sustain Business Innovation

need to pivot. McDonald says the book was inspired by the sobering reality that 90 percent of high-potential new ventures fail to meet their projected targets and 75 percent of new products fail. Success... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

trustee of the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, and serves on boards of the Rock Center for Entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School and the View Details

May 2022
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Deborah Quazzo at GSV Ventures

By: William A. Sahlman, Michael D. Smith and Nicole Tempest Keller

As COVID-19 swept across the globe in 2020, the education sector faced unprecedented disruption. Schools and colleges worldwide shut down, forcing over a billion students and teachers to move to online learning. Investor interest in the EdTech space exploded as... View Details