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- October 2016 (Revised January 2017)
- Supplement
Bally Total Fitness (B): The Fall, 2005–2016
By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
By many measures the largest health-club chain in the United States in the early 2000s, Bally Total Fitness sold most of its remaining fitness clubs to 24 Hour Fitness in 2014 and disappeared from the industry top 100 rankings. After Bally was bedeviled by accounting...
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Bally Total Fitness;
Accounting;
Accounting Audits;
Accrual Accounting;
Business Earnings;
Revenue Recognition;
Financial Statements;
Acquisition;
Business Exit or Shutdown;
For-Profit Firms;
Crime and Corruption;
Borrowing and Debt;
Capital;
Capital Structure;
Cash;
Cash Flow;
Public Equity;
Financial Condition;
Insolvency and Bankruptcy;
Financing and Loans;
Investment Activism;
Profit;
Revenue;
Geographic Scope;
Business History;
Executive Compensation;
Resignation and Termination;
Annual Reports;
Contracts;
Lawsuits and Litigation;
Business or Company Management;
Marketing;
Market Entry and Exit;
Private Ownership;
Public Ownership;
Problems and Challenges;
Strategy;
Business Strategy;
Competition;
Corporate Strategy;
Health Industry;
Accounting Industry;
United States;
Illinois;
Chicago
Wells, John R., and Gabriel Ellsworth. "Bally Total Fitness (B): The Fall, 2005–2016." Harvard Business School Supplement 717-422, October 2016. (Revised January 2017.)
- 02 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 2, 2007
eradicating the shortage of classroom desks in public schools. What should Immelman do? Will Lapdesk achieve its mission? Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=808008 Lobbying for Love?...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 10, 2007
have favored higher-revenue companies. Should Motilal Oswal go public now, to take advantage of the hot Indian market, or hold off and build its revenue for a higher valuation? Purchase this case:...
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Martha Lagace
- 18 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 18
Publications August 2013 Oxford Handbook of Creativity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship: Multilevel Linkages Innovating without Information Constraints: Organization, Communities, and Innovation When Information Costs Approach Zero By:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Financial Report 2018 - Financial Report 2018
generosity, achieving the School’s $40 million target three years after the Campaign’s public launch in fiscal 2013. HBS Fund gift income has doubled since then, growing from $22 million in fiscal 2013 to $44 million this year. Restricted...
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- 27 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 27, 2009
communication on financial choices of married individuals in the Philippines. Making choices public moves men from putting money into their own account to consumption; communication with their spouse drives men to put income in their...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
formas, dividends, debt maturity, asymmetric information, and more. Power Is Boring: The Globalized World as Explained by the Most Anarchic of Economists (Il potere è noioso: Il mondo globalizzato raccontato dal più anarchico degli...
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- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
activity and new venture financing is an age old question. Public promotion efforts are controversial, and in most cases they tend to fail. In the United States, debate about the role of government in these areas can be traced back to at...
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Carmen Nobel
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
http://intranet.hbs.edu/dept/drfd/new_publications/papers/Porter-Ketels/clusters.pdf Board Interlocks and the Propensity to Be Targeted in Private Equity Transactions Authors:Toby E. Stuart and Soojin Yim Publication:Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming)...
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Martha Lagace
- 04 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 4
Publications 2006 O'Reilly Media, Inc. Managing Startups: Best Blog Posts By: Eisenmann, Tom, ed. Abstract—Harvard Business School Professor Tom Eisenmann annually compiles the best posts from many blogs on technology startup...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
Set for publication next spring, the book draws on a decade of experience and years of research to frame a series of questions that, if rigorously addressed, will guide donors to better results with their philanthropy. Bridgespan also...
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- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
Financial Management of Family and Closely Held Firms: Overview of the Course Harvard Business School Course Overview 209-137 Most companies around the world are controlled by their founding families, including more than half of all View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 04 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 4
Publications August 2013 Jossey-Bass Teaming to Innovate By: Edmondson, Amy C. Abstract—Innovation requires teaming. (Put another way, teaming is to innovation what assembly lines are to car production.) This book brings together key...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
telecommunications opportunities in Africa. On May 31, 1993, Maddy and her partner, Come Lague (MBA '93), launched African Communications Group (ACG), a company this dynamic pair hopes will "eventually be all over the continent of Africa." Last November, ACG introduced...
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- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
Shanoff also wondered what the MBA Class of '42 might have been thinking about "right around first-term exams in December 1941, when the attack on Pearl Harbor plunged the country into World War." As students struggled with a new sense of vulnerability, a number of...
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Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- Web
Print View - Course Catalog
3.0 Field Course: Public Markets Investing Seminar Finance Sara Fleiss Spring 2025 Q3Q4 3.0 Field Course: Scaling Minority Businesses General Management, Entrepreneurial Management Archie L. Jones , Henry McGee Fall 2024 Q1Q2 3.0 Field...
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- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
Working PapersColonial Land Tenure, Electoral Competition and Public Goods in India Authors:Abhijit Banerjee and Lakshmi Iyer No abstract is available at this time. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-062.pdf...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
http://media.swissre.com/documents/pub_risk_dialogue_Integrative_Risk_Management.pdf Organising Response to Extreme Emergencies: The Victorian Bushfires of 2009 Authors:Herman B. "Dutch" Leonard and Arnold M. Howitt Publication:The Victorian Bushfires of...
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Sean Silverthorne