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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... 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.)
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
exposed to scrutiny and global norms, are less likely to engage in selective disclosure. We discuss contributions to the literature that spans institutional theory and strategic management and to the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 04 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 4
most rigorous extant methodologies for detecting "tunneling," or efforts by firms' controlling owner managers to take money for themselves at the expense of minority shareholders. We find that, in contrast to prior views, Indian... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
with these historical accounts. This paper, by examining the resource allocation process closely, identifies a specific set of circumstances in which intervention by top management is critical to a firm's... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
production shifts to the South, Northern resources will be reallocated to R&D, driving an increase in the global rate of innovation. We test the model's predictions by analyzing responses of U.S.-based... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 16
in managing business analytics and big data at the enterprise level. It includes key applications of analytics, human and organizational issues in building analytical capabilities, and case studies of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
tighter coupling is more likely in suppliers with certain types of managerial structures (certified management system and unions). We also find important interactions between these organizational structures: managerial structures offset... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018
August 2018 Negotiation and Conflict Management Research Raiffa Transformed the Field of Negotiation—and Me By: Bazerman, Max Abstract—Howard Raiffa was a role model, friend, and inspiration. He transformed the field of negotiation, and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Sep 2009
- What Do You Think?
Are Retention Bonuses Worth the Investment?
the after-tax returns from his twelve-month retention bonus, $742,006.40, to "organizations that are helping people who are suffering from the global downturn." He did this instead of returning the money to AIG, as its CEO,... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- Article
Strong Leadership and Teamwork Drive Culture and Performance Change: Ohio State University Medical Center 2000–2006
By: Leonard A. Schlesinger, Fred Sanfilippo, Neeli Bendapudi and Anthony Rucci
Several characteristics of academic health centers have the potential to create high levels of internal conflict and misalignment that can pose significant leadership challenges.
In September 2000, the positions of Ohio State University (OSU) senior vice... View Details
Keywords: Employee Relationship Management; Customer Value and Value Chain; Organizational Structure; Performance Improvement; Customer Satisfaction; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leading Change; Service Delivery; Satisfaction; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; Ohio
Schlesinger, Leonard A., Fred Sanfilippo, Neeli Bendapudi, and Anthony Rucci. "Strong Leadership and Teamwork Drive Culture and Performance Change: Ohio State University Medical Center 2000–2006." Academic Medicine 83, no. 9 (September 2008).
- 09 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace
scandal offers important lessons for all companies, the first being: It’s not OK to look the other way when a leader crosses ethical lines. In the wake of #MeToo, a global campaign against sexual abuse and harassment that started in 2017,... View Details
- 14 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2007
like YouTube, to manage controversy. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=508047 HCA, Inc. (B) Harvard Business School Supplement 208-070 Supplements the (A) case. Purchase this supplement: View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 13
how management and corporate boards of directors can best manage investor relations with activist stockholders such as hedge funds who are demanding major changes within a corporation to improve stockholder... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 23
their own operations, shifting enforcement resources away from voluntary disclosers. We also find that firms that voluntarily disclosed regulatory violations and committed to self-policing improved their regulatory compliance and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 3, 2007
governance, Jay Lorsch develops his insights into how to audit knowledge assets (avoiding its deterioration), human resources and corporate activities. Publisher's site: http://www.oup.com View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
enterprises seem incapable of transformative innovation, it is due to how we design and manage them, rather than anything inherent in their scale. In fact, Creative Construction argues, if used properly, scale can be an asset, rather than... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- January 2011 (Revised July 2011)
- Case
Elizabeth Jacobs: Price-Earnings Ratios and Employee Stock Option Grants
By: David F. Hawkins
Analyst questions the value of accounting measurement of earnings per share and stock option costs for equity valuation purposes. View Details
Keywords: Earnings Management; Business Earnings; Employee Stock Ownership Plan; Stock Shares; Employee Ownership; Stock Options; Equity; Accounting Audits; Valuation; Profit Sharing; Accounting Industry
Hawkins, David F. "Elizabeth Jacobs: Price-Earnings Ratios and Employee Stock Option Grants." Harvard Business School Case 111-087, January 2011. (Revised July 2011.)
- 24 Apr 2020
- Op-Ed
Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19
reputations, and capabilities of big firms. Many organizations were already employing virtual hiring tools in some form as a way to reach a broader candidate pool in a cost-effective way. According to a Society for Human View Details
- 30 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018
in data. ML methods also address several issues raised by scholars pertinent to the norms of empirical research in the fields of strategy and management (such as “p-hacking” and confounding local effects with View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
forthcoming Financial Analysts Journal Why and How Investors Use ESG Information: Evidence from a Global Survey By: Amel-Zadeh, Amir, and George Serafeim Abstract—Using survey data from a sample of senior investment professionals from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne