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  • April 1998 (Revised July 2005)
  • Case

Acquisition of Consolidated Rail Corporation (A), The

By: Benjamin C. Esty, Lori A. Flees and Mathew M Millett
On October 15, 1996, Virginia-based CSX and Pennsylvania-based Consolidated Rail (Conrail), the first and third largest railroads in the eastern United States, announced their intent to merge in a friendly deal worth $8.3 billion. This deal was part of an industry-wide... View Details
Keywords: Valuation; Mergers and Acquisitions; Decisions; Contracts; Rail Industry; United States
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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Article Award for his article with Thomas Lyon, Magali A. Delmas, John W. Maxwell, Pratima Bansal, Mireille Chiroleu-Assouline, Patricia Crifo, Rodolphe Durand, Jean-Pascal Gond, Andrew King, Michael Lenox, David Vogel, and Frank Wijen,... View Details
  • Fall 2020
  • Article

Christo and Jeanne‐Claude: The Negotiation of Art and Vice Versa

By: Michael A. Wheeler
Over the past two decades the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School (PON) has named thirteen people as Great Negotiators. The project, directed by my colleague Jim Sebenius, has given us the opportunity to commend our honorees’ outstanding work and to learn from... View Details
Keywords: Art; Negotiation; Arts
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Harvard Business School

Building on the Legacy Thought Leadership Andrew F. Brimmer James I. Cash Jr. Linda A. Hill David A. Thomas HBS Faculty Members HBS Doctoral Students Alumni Profiles Research Links Essay on HBS Thought... View Details
  • 01 Oct 1997
  • News

High Fives

role models: “My grandfather: he was an Italian immigrant who was never intimidated a day in his life. My father: he stood up to adversity and always got through it. At Harvard, great professors like Ted Levitt, Gordon Donaldson, Earl Sasser, Jack Gabarro, Ray... View Details
  • 12 Nov 2021
  • News

Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

We see a strong push from customers and investors to adopt climate-positive policies and products. And we see movement to adopt policies that emphasize human consequences, these in addition to traditional approaches to compliance with environmental View Details
  • 01 Mar 2014
  • News

Generation Next

the family business feel. Professor William C. Kirby and Tracy Yuen Manty The Wen Group Trying to find resolution in a Hong Kong–based family conglomerate that suffers from nepotism and governance issues. Senior Lecturer John A. Davis and... View Details
Keywords: Mark Bergen; Godrej Group; Management
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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online

delivered entirely online through the HBS Online course platform over an eight-week period. The Harvard Business Analytics Program is an online certificate program offered through a collaboration between Harvard Business School, the John View Details
  • November 2005 (Revised December 2016)
  • Case

Bally Total Fitness (A): The Rise, 1962–2004

By: John R. Wells, Elizabeth A. Raabe and Gabriel Ellsworth
From a single, modest club in 1962, Bally Total Fitness had grown to become—in management’s words—the “largest and only nationwide commercial operator of fitness centers” in the United States in 2004. Bally had faced its share of challenges, but the last couple of... View Details
Keywords: Bally Total Fitness; Fitness; Gyms; Health Clubs; Chain; Securities And Exchange Commission; Paul Toback; Weight Loss; Exercise; Contracts; Personal Training; Retention; Accounting; Accounting Audits; Accrual Accounting; Finance; Advertising; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; For-Profit Firms; Customers; Customer Satisfaction; Public Equity; Financing and Loans; Revenue; Revenue Recognition; Geographic Scope; Multinational Firms and Management; Health; Nutrition; Business History; Lawsuits and Litigation; Management; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development Strategy; Marketing; Operations; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Public Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business Strategy; Competition; Corporate Strategy; Expansion; Segmentation; Trends; Cost Management; Profit; Growth and Development; Leadership Style; Five Forces Framework; Private Ownership; Opportunities; Motivation and Incentives; Competitive Strategy; Health Industry; United States; Illinois; Chicago
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  • 01 Apr 1999
  • News

Time to Vote in University Elections

summa cum laude; JD '93, Washington University School of Law; MSW '93, George Warren Brown School of Social Work. Assistant District Counsel, Immigration & Naturalization Service, El Paso, Tex. Maryann Tsang Fong, AB '80, cum laude.... View Details
  • 01 Apr 2002
  • News

University Elections

Ed.M. ’84; BS ’74, University of New Hampshire. Head of School, Castilleja School. Palo Alto, CA. Andres W. Lopez, AB ’92, JD ’95. Attorney; Senior Law Clerk to U.S. District Judge Jay A. Garcia-Gregory. San... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Government
  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

Revamping the corporate tax code could improve America’s competitiveness and living standards

The US corporate tax code is impeding the nation’s ability to compete in the worldwide economy, according to Mihir A. Desai (MBA 1993, PhD 1998), the Mizuho Financial Group Professor of Finance. Desai has found that current US policies... View Details
  • 23 Oct 2019
  • News

Negotiators Share Lessons from High-Stakes Global Diplomacy

Madeleine Albright was interviewed for the American Secretaries of State Project, a collaboration among faculty members at HBS, Harvard Kennedy School, and Harvard Law School designed to extract lessons in negotiation and diplomacy for... View Details
Keywords: University Collaborations
  • 05 May 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance

of integrity has to do it. In the same way that medical ethics do not compel a physician to do something that violates his or her own personal ethics, corporate law does not require directors to check their sense of right and wrong... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
  • 01 Dec 2001
  • News

Corporate Governance Conference Addresses Global Challenges

emphasis on function reflected conference chair Professor Kenneth A. Froot's decision to bring a different message to the gathering. "With a functional approach, you do less comparison of the institutions for corporate governance and... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management
  • 01 Dec 2001
  • News

Q&A: John Quelch

John A. Quelch, Lincoln Filene Professor of Business Administration and senior associate dean for International Development, became the leader of the School's Global Initiative last August. A veteran HBS faculty member who recently spent... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
  • 01 Sep 2006
  • News

Faculty Books

Corporate Information Strategy and Management by Lynda M. Applegate, Robert D. Austin, and F. Warren McFarlan (Irwin/McGraw-Hill) This extensive collection of HBS cases devoted to IT gives an overview of contemporary information systems... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 01 Dec 2000
  • News

The Rites of Autumn

records. The Class of 1960, for example, raised $3 million in honor of its 40th Reunion, while those celebrating their 30th Reunion, the Class of 1970, had raised close to $5.4 million. Professor F. Warren McFarlan led a discussion on... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
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Attracting Early Stage Investors: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

By: S. Bernstein, A. Korteweg and K. Laws
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  • 01 Oct 1996
  • News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

input, or related concerns. -Cathy Connett September 1996 HBSAA Board of Directors 1996–97 President Catherine A. Connett (MBA '79) St. Paul, MN Vice Presidents William M. Folberth III (17th OPM) New York, NY Deborah C. McLean (MBA '79)... View Details
Keywords: Cathy Connett