Soothe is a multi-national wellness service provider based out of Los Angeles, California . The company allows users to request the services of a massage therapist , cosmetologists , and estheticians . Since its launch in 2014, the mostly mobile app -based company has received significant press coverage and has expanded its service area to include many cities and counties in the United States. It also provides services in Australia, Canada, the UK, Ireland, and Germany.
23-589: Soothe was founded in August 2013. It was created by Merlin Kauffman, former CEO & cofounder, and Bradley Herman, former CTO & cofounder. Kauffman developed the idea behind the service while studying at the Harvard Business School . He was a domain-name investor who started as a teenager. As an adult, he invested four hundred thousand of his own money to start the business. The company first began operating in
46-468: A new hall that was funded by a US$ 30 million donation by the family of the late Ruth Mulan Chu Chao , whose four daughters all attended Harvard Business School. The Executive Education quad currently includes McArthur, Baker, and Mellon Halls (residences), McCollum and Hawes (classrooms), Chao Center, and Glass (administration). Most of the HBS buildings are connected by a color-coded basement tunnel system which
69-473: A partnership with Woodhouse Spas. This move into Hospitality expanded even more in 2023, as Soothe officially announced the launch of its hospitality wellness staffing platform on April 20, 2023. At the time of launch, over 100 properties were already using the platform to make shifts available to independent contractors across the Soothe platform. Harvard Business School Harvard Business School ( HBS )
92-651: A rich businessman, Gay attended schools in the United States and in Switzerland. In 1890, he obtained his A.B. in history and philosophy at the University of Michigan . He returned to Europe to study agriculture, industry, trade, and history at universities in Leipzig, Göttingen, Zurich, Berlin and London. In 1892, he married his Michigan classmate Louise Randolph, with whom he shared his research. In 1902, he received his PhD from
115-717: Is open to pedestrian traffic. Tunnels open to maintenance workers only carry steam pipes to the rest of the campus, and connect Kresge with the Blackstone steam plant in Cambridge, via the Weeks Footbridge. Edwin Francis Gay Edwin Francis Gay (October 27, 1867 – February 8, 1946) was an American economist , professor of economic history, and the first Dean of the Harvard Business School . Born in Detroit to
138-546: Is the graduate business school of Harvard University , a private Ivy League research university . Located in Allston, Massachusetts , HBS owns Harvard Business Publishing , which publishes business books, leadership articles, case studies , and Harvard Business Review , a monthly academic business magazine. It is also home to the Baker Library/Bloomberg Center , the school's primary library. The school
161-563: The Los Angeles area where it was based. As of December 2014, the service had 300 licensed massage therapists in Los Angeles and also covered Austin , Miami , Orange County , Phoenix and San Diego . In August 2015, the company received $ 10.6 million in funding from The Riverside Company. By this point, the company had expanded to a total of 13 cities which included Chicago , Seattle , and San Francisco . In its March 2016 Series B funding,
184-412: The University of Berlin under supervision of Gustav Schmoller . Back in the United States, in 1902, Gay was appointed instructor at Harvard University , replacing William Ashley . In 1903, he was promoted to Assistant Professor, and in 1906 to Professor in the chair of Economic History at Harvard. Gay was the first Dean of the Harvard Business School from 1908 to 1919. The Harvard Business School
207-406: The 1971-built Burden Hall with a 900-seat auditorium. In the fall of 2010, Tata related companies and charities donated $ 50 million for the construction of an executive center. The executive center was named as Tata Hall, after Ratan Tata (AMP, 1975), the chairman of Tata Sons . The total construction costs have been estimated at $ 100 million. Tata Hall is located in the northeast corner of
230-476: The HBS campus. The facility is devoted to the Harvard Business School's Executive Education programs. At seven stories tall with about 150,000 gross square feet, it contains about 180 bedrooms for education students, in addition to academic and multi-purpose spaces. Kresge Way was located by the base of the former Kresge Hall, and is named for Sebastian S. Kresge . In 2014, Kresge Hall was replaced by
253-476: The International Economy; Entrepreneurial Management; Finance; General Management; Marketing; Negotiation, Organizations and Markets; Organizational Behavior; Strategy; and Technology and Operations Management. Older buildings include the 1927-built Morgan Hall, named for J.P. Morgan , and 1940-built Loeb house, named for John L. Loeb Sr. and his son, (both designed by McKim, Mead & White ), and
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#1732877094561276-476: The United Kingdom, delivering six-week Advanced Management Program courses alongside local staff at Durham in 1964, Bangor in 1965 and at Strathclyde in 1966. It also brought in professors from the newly founded British business schools to see how teaching was carried out at Harvard via an International Teachers Program. In 2012–2013, HBS administration implemented new programs and practices to improve
299-617: The company launched two locations in Australia by expanding its services to Sydney and Melbourne . On May 2, 2018, Soothe raised $ 31 million in Series C funding from The Riverside Company. In January 2020, John Ellis was hired as CEO of Soothe. He led the company's restructuring and expansion beyond massage into skincare and beauty services, and continues to manage Soothe's global growth into new markets and services. In October 2022, Soothe expanded into hospitality staffing services after announcing
322-751: The company raised an additional $ 35 million. It had expanded to twenty-two areas in the US, including Atlanta and Indianapolis . Soothe had a total of more than 3,200 massage therapists across the nation. It also operates at a loss and planned to continue to do so “for the foreseeable future”. However, the company reported a monthly revenue of $ 1.2 million as of March 2016. As of April 2016, Soothe's coverage area also included such cities as Houston , Minneapolis , Orlando , and Portland . It had also expanded services to Canada by including Vancouver , British Columbia . The company also began servicing in Europe with London becoming
345-569: The experience of female students and recruit more female professors. HBS established nine global research centers and four regional offices and functions through offices in Asia Pacific (Hong Kong, Shanghai, Singapore), United States (San Francisco Bay Area, CA), Europe (Paris, opened in 2003), South Asia (India), Middle East and North Africa (Dubai, Istanbul, Tel Aviv), Japan and Latin America (Montevideo, Mexico City, São Paulo). As of 2022, HBS
368-514: The first city across the Atlantic. In July 2016, the company had signed-up corporate clients like Facebook , Hulu , and Microsoft . According to the company, the move was partly motivated by a desire to smooth-out demand and mitigate the spike in service requests outside of the regular nine to five corporate business hours. By February 2017, the service was available in 51 cities in the US while also adding services to Toronto, Canada. In summer 2017,
391-708: The one-year program (by then known as the Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration) were permitted to apply to join the HBS MBA program as second-years. In December 1962, the faculty voted to allow women to enter the MBA program directly. The first women to apply directly to the MBA program matriculated in September 1963. Harvard Business School played a role in the founding of the first business schools in
414-586: The start the school enjoyed a close relationship with the corporate world. Within a few years of its founding many business leaders were its alumni and were hiring other alumni for starting positions in their firms. At its founding, the school accepted only male students. The Training Course in Personnel Administration , founded at Radcliffe College in 1937, was the beginning of business training for women at Harvard. HBS took over administration of that program from Radcliffe in 1954. In 1959, alumnae of
437-633: The top 5% of their year class. HBS students can join more than 90 different clubs and student organizations on campus. The Student Association (SA) is the main interface between the MBA student body and the faculty/administration. In addition, the HBS student body is represented at the university level by the Harvard Graduate Council . In 2015, executive education contributed $ 168 million to HBS's total revenue of $ 707 million. This included: The school's faculty are divided into 10 academic units: Accounting and Management; Business, Government and
460-783: Was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1913. In 1921, he was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association . He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1932. From 1929 onwards, he was the representative for America and de facto co-chairman of the International Scientific Committee on Price History . He was president of the New York Evening Post from 1920 to 1923. Books,
483-681: Was established in 1908. Initially established by the humanities faculty, it received independent status in 1910, and became a separate administrative unit in 1913. The first dean was historian Edwin Francis Gay (1867–1946). Yogev (2001) explains the original concept: The business school pioneered the development of the case method of teaching, drawing inspiration from this approach to legal education at Harvard. Cases are typically descriptions of real events in organizations. Students are positioned as managers and are presented with problems which they need to analyze and provide recommendations on. From
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#1732877094561506-559: Was founded in 1908 and started the first year with 59 students. In the 1920s, there were over 500 students. Gay served as chairman of the planning and statistics division of the War Industries Board during World War I. He was a founding member of the Council on Foreign Relations , and served as its first elected secretary and treasurer from 1921 to 1933, then as vice-president until 1944, succeeding co-founder Paul D. Cravath . Gay
529-469: Was ranked fifth in the nation by U.S. News & World Report , third in the world by the Financial Times , and second in the world by QS World University Rankings . Most full-time students study for an MBA, although doctoral programs are also undertaken. Executive education is provided, and online courses. Baker Scholars are those MBA students with academic honors over the two year course in
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