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- 02 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Ray A. Goldberg
At the beginning of January, over two hundred senior executives and government officials from around the globe met at Harvard Business School for the fortieth annual Agribusiness Seminar. They represented every facet of the "global... View Details
- 14 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Few Women on Boards: Is There a Fix?
asymmetry. Should they take the lead from Norway, for example, which in 2003 mandated a 40 percent quota for female board participation? Should they use shame tactics like in Finland, which requires companies without women on their boards to disclose the reasons in... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 27 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Family CEOs Spend Less Time at Work
Two years ago, the World Management Survey on organizational leadership reported that firms led by family CEOs (managers related to the family owning the business) are often managed badly, particularly those where a first-born son has... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 24 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
With Millions of Workers Juggling Caregiving, Employers Need to Rethink Support
the workforce. Companies also pay a price, both directly and indirectly, often in ways they don’t fully understand, the report found. The Gazette spoke with its author Joseph B. Fuller, professor of management practice and co-chair of the... View Details
Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 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... View Details
Keywords: 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.)
- 14 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Breaking the Smartphone Addiction
work together to create 'predictable time off,' people, teams, and ultimately the organization all stand to benefit.” Most consultants simply accepted the resulting demands on their time as the price they had to pay for annual salaries of... View Details
Keywords: by Leslie A. Perlow
- 09 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
A Simple Way for Restaurant Inspectors to Improve Food Safety
inspectors alike. On average, inspectors cited fewer violations at each successive establishment inspected throughout the day, the researchers found. In other words, inspectors tended to find and report the most violations at the first... View Details
- 29 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
Pride Goeth Before a Profit
"And I would take our group of twenty-two here and match them up against anybody in the industry." Employees' Award-winning Ideas At Aetna, the Hartford, CT-based insurer, Rich Schlichting, a customer reporting and business... View Details
Keywords: by Theodore Kinni
- 20 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
that online prices have longer durations, with fewer price changes close to zero, and hazard functions that initially increase over time. I show that time-averaging and imputed prices in scanner and CPI data can fully explain the differences with the literature. I then... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 28, 2015
5-year roadmap known as the "2015 EPS roadmap." The case is set in May 2014, just after IBM's annual investor briefing. Despite more than 10 years of strong financial performance, IBM reported... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why a Federal Rule on CEO Pay Disclosure May Get You In Trouble With Customers
enact more than 200 rules related to disclosure and accountability. Among them: a requirement that all public companies disclose the annual salary of the chief executive, the median salary of all their employees, and the ratio of one to... View Details
- 30 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Your Board’s Effectiveness
and monitor the CEO, scrutinize the performance of the company's leadership team, oversee financial reporting and disclosure, and ensure compliance with laws and regulations. The recent failures triggered regulatory and legislative... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan
- 18 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Bias of Wall Street Analysts
developments. His work examines how "sell-side financial analysts incorporate accounting information in their earnings forecasts, common stock valuations, and investment recommendations." He also analyzes management reporting of... View Details
- 07 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 7, 2006
tradition of excellence with the 28th edition of the annual publication, The Global Competitiveness Report, featuring the latest indicators drawn from the Executive Opinion Survey, which captures the perceptions of over 11,000 business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
characteristic-based portfolio strategy that requires relatively low annual turnover. This is a continuum, with small size (a very persistent characteristic) at one end of the spectrum and high frequency reversal at the other. Unlike... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Nov 2014
- Research & Ideas
Corrupting Silence: Companies Must Speak Up Against Bribes
troubles, HBS's Paul M. Healy, the James R. Williston Professor and Senior Associate Dean for Research, saw a unique opportunity to examine an elephant in the room in the business world. The United Nations estimates that roughly a trillion dollars in bribes is paid... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 26 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Clear Eye for Innovation
structures do they use? What works, and what doesn't? First and perhaps most important, [Bradley] had the leaders of all the breakthrough projects report to a single executive. We discovered that some companies have actually been quite... View Details
- 03 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Ominous Background Music Is Bad for Sharks
Unlike Hollywood films, documentaries tend to portray sharks in their natural habitats, as in Discovery Channel’s “Shark Week,” an annual weeklong programming block of shark videos. But new research indicates that documentaries may also... View Details
- 18 Oct 2016
- Op-Ed
Why Business Should Invest in Community Health
corporate attention than employee, consumer, and environmental health. In a survey of more than 80 companies attending the Building a Culture of Health conference at Harvard Business School in April 2016, a lower percentage of respondents View Details
- 06 Apr 2016
- What Do You Think?
As Tim Cook, How Would You Tackle Apple's Next Challenge?
waste of time... Offer an annual $10 million award to the next solution and the hackers will be working for Apple.” There was other advice for Tim Cook. Much of it concerned the potential loss of attention to what Apple’s users really... View Details