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- 05 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: January 5
and Enel, the largest electric utilities in Germany and Italy, respectively. In March 2007, Acciona's executive chairman Jose Manuel Entrecanales is considering three strategic alternatives: tendering its shares-and realizing a capital...
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Martha Lagace
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
Group formation increases individual payoffs, and group structure is robust to varying levels of reciprocity and transitivity. Increasing population size increases group size more than group number, and manipulating baseline trust in a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
statements about their commitment to long-term success. To understand the disconnect, we examine how S&P500 companies are actually allocating capital and show that firms are in fact plowing substantial amounts of View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
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One-Year Action Plan Update - Advancing Racial Equity
couple of other things, but that in general, I think we're making very good progress. One of the most important things that we wanted to do was to establish what we called enduring structures that would continue to propel the work that we...
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- 19 Nov 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Moral Leader
where morality and leadership intersect: "What is the nature of a moral challenge?" "How do people 'reason morally'?" "How is moral leadership different from leadership of any other kind?" Q: The course has a unique View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
entrepreneurship is imbedded in the structure of the family." Cherie Nursalim, manager in the corporate strategy and planning division of her family's Gaja Tunggal Group, a major Indonesian conglomerate with extensive interests in...
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Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
forward-thinking companies that have adopted radical new approaches to talent, this book shows leaders how to bring the rigor they apply to financial capital to their human capital, elevating HR to the same level as finance in their...
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- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
Asian Agri appeared well positioned to capitalize on the growing palm oil market, but the broad-strokes vilification of the palm oil industry was a source of serious concern. In the face of great uncertainty, the management team needed to...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
enterprises with that and nobody was really operating at the very high levels of, kind of business intelligence that a lot of the work that was happening in the gig economy, and the freelance economy was very fairly basic and fairly commoditized. And we saw a chance,...
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- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
and pursue my personal passions of women's economic empowerment and education. I began at Merrill Lynch, but in pursuit of independence, I eventually became an entrepreneur, founding and building a venture capital firm. I still enjoy...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
an opportunity to change fundamentally their cost structures at the same time.Kerr: Ok, so tell us a little bit next about the design of the survey. Who were you trying to reach? How did you conduct the polling? And also what were you...
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- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
shrouding risk. We find four empirical results consistent with this view. First, we show that structured products with complex payoff formulas offer higher headline rates, and that they more frequently expose investors to a complete loss...
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Carmen Nobel
- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
supplying superior bottleneck components while outsourcing non-bottleneck components. I show that a firm pursuing this strategy will have a higher return on invested capital (ROIC) than competitors with a less modular design. Over time,...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
have education, and some don’t even realize they’re entrepreneurs.” Sahlman remarks on the fact that it takes thousands of 400-person companies to change the structure of a country’s economy; Àlvaro Rodríguez-Arregui (MBA ’95) agrees. As...
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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
line and on improving the quality of patient care. In 2005, Porter developed a multiyear learning partnership with MD Anderson, regularly ranked as the top cancer treatment center in the United States. The organization radically reconfigured its View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace
real-time connections with colleagues, but will prefer to maintain their at-home work lifestyle. I suggest managers put some structure in place to ensure that time in the office is optimized for face time. For example, make a team...
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- November 2004 (Revised September 2019)
- Background Note
The U.S. Health Club Industry in 2004
By: John R. Wells, Gabriel Ellsworth and Benjamin Weinstock
In 2004, the $16.8 billion U.S. health club industry continued its strong record of growth. There were almost 27,000 health clubs in the United States, up from 6,700 two decades earlier, and these clubs claimed 41 million members, over 14% of the U.S. population....
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Health Clubs;
Fitness;
Gyms;
Chain;
Weight Loss;
Obesity;
Exercise;
Personal Training;
Bally Total Fitness;
24 Hour Fitness;
YMCA;
Gold's Gym;
Curves;
Franchise;
Franchising;
Subscription;
Promotional Sales;
Promotions;
Fixed Costs;
Body;
Accrual Accounting;
Revenue Recognition;
Buildings and Facilities;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Business Model;
For-Profit Firms;
Trends;
Customers;
Demographics;
Age;
Income;
Private Equity;
Financing and Loans;
Profit;
Revenue;
Geographic Scope;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Health;
Nutrition;
Business History;
Employees;
Retention;
Human Capital;
Working Conditions;
Contracts;
Business or Company Management;
Goals and Objectives;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Markets;
Demand and Consumers;
Supply and Industry;
Industry Growth;
Industry Structures;
Operations;
Service Operations;
Franchise Ownership;
Private Ownership;
Public Ownership;
Problems and Challenges;
Sales;
Salesforce Management;
Situation or Environment;
Opportunities;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Welfare;
Sports;
Strategy;
Business Strategy;
Competition;
Competitive Strategy;
Consolidation;
Corporate Strategy;
Customization and Personalization;
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Segmentation;
Hardware;
Health Industry;
United States
Wells, John R., Gabriel Ellsworth, and Benjamin Weinstock. "The U.S. Health Club Industry in 2004." Harvard Business School Background Note 705-445, November 2004. (Revised September 2019.)
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
research on the effectiveness of state systems, policy options, and the structural challenge of underemployment among graduates. Bill Kerr: As job openings consistently outnumber the unemployed, attention is focused on how the labor...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
compelling. But there are very, very powerful forces arrayed against it—everything from the way companies structure their hiring process and the responsibilities they’re prepared to accept in terms of talent development, to the very, very...
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- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
others,” Nwuneli said, according to a report in Nigeria’sThe Nation. A native Nigerian who lives in Lagos, Nwuneli noted the importance of “reimagining how our market is structured to allow social distancing, [and] thinking through our...
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