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  • 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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  • 11 Dec 2007
  • First Look

First Look: December 11, 2007

primary goals are to (a) develop and validate an interdisciplinary multidimensional model, which focuses on the complex interrelationships among requirements workflow related risk factors, individual, team and organizational competencies,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Sep 2003
  • What Do You Think?

To Whom Should Boards be Accountable?

numbers by cutting the newsgathering budget. What is a board's responsibility to employees and customers, among others? And just how can it be exercised in the context of a rich history of shareholder (versus employee or customer) View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 01 Nov 2012
  • News

First and Goal

rejected. As a result, he resigned from the board of the organization he had founded to promote the sport that he loved. Today, Swearengin, an attorney who for 14 years has represented companies facing class action litigation and... View Details
Keywords: Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

    Larissa Bifano

    Larissa S. Bifano concentrates on patent and other intellectual property strategy, counseling, prosecution, diligence, and litigation in the United States Patent and Trademark Office and federal courts. She also leads the firm's team that... View Details
    • 06 Aug 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: August 6

    to leave sued firms. Overall, shareholders use litigation along with director elections and director retention to hold some independent directors more accountable than others when firms experience financial... View Details
    Keywords: Anna Secino
    • 20 Dec 2016
    • First Look

    December 20, 2016

    Rhodesia. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52023 The Effect of Shareholder Litigation Risk on the Information Environment: The Case of... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 25 Apr 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research, April 25

    more than $10 billion in deal volume per year, on average, but they also play an important role in defining the relationship between inside and outside shareholders in every public company. Delaware courts and lawyers in transactional... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

      Larissa Bifano

      Larissa Bifano concentrates on patent and other intellectual property strategy, counseling, prosecution, diligence, and litigation in the United States Patent and Trademark Office and federal courts. She also leads the firm's team that... View Details
      Keywords: Legal
      • 30 Oct 2012
      • First Look

      First Look: October 30

      salary allocations to online ad clicks to admission decisions.   Working PapersSecurities Litigation Risk for Foreign Companies Listed in the U.S. Authors:Beiting Cheng, Suraj Srinivasan, and Gwen Yu... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 09 Sep 2009
      • First Look

      First Look: September 9

      with the "opportunistic behavior" hypothesis, private equity firms have higher quality accruals and a lower propensity to manage income than public equity firms. We further find that public equity firms report more conservatively, in line with their greater... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • 01 Feb 1999
      • News

      Q&A: Camille Tang Yeh of the Asia-Pacific Research Office

      Both transitions have strategic and competitive implications for firms operating in and out of the region. The current "reconstruction" of Asia offers insights about differentiating systemic from asystemic risks and illuminates possible... View Details
      Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services
      • 26 Sep 2017
      • First Look

      First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017

      data for themselves and look forward to the new questions they can tackle with it. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53265 forthcoming Boston University Law Review Troll Check? A Proposal for Administrative Review of Patent View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 08 Apr 2008
      • First Look

      First Look: April 8, 2008

        Working PapersNone this week   Cases & Course MaterialsAT&T v. Microsoft (A): IP Litigation Strategy Harvard Business School Case 608-080 This case examines a hard fought litigation over a patent... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • 25 Apr 2014
      • Research & Ideas

      To Pay or Not to Pay: Argentina and the International Debt Market

      sovereign debt? Judging by other restructurings over the past four decades, Argentina is an anomaly, a case worth watching but unlikely to set any lasting legal or economic precedent. Ongoing litigation is predicated on what the Second... View Details
      Keywords: by Laura Alfaro
      • 16 Jan 2014
      • Research & Ideas

      Resolving Patent Disputes that Impede Innovation

      is thus imperfect. "Sometimes this vagueness (and the consequent inability of parties to agree on a negotiated, 'reasonable' license) will lead to expensive litigation whose cost and risk can impede the... View Details
      Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Legal Services
      • 12 Jul 2004
      • Research & Ideas

      Michael Porter’s Prescription For the High Cost of Health Care

      procedures. Nondiscriminatory Insurance Underwriting. Two anomalies mar the pricing of health plans. First, people who are included in large risk pools (such as those who work for big companies) can get a reasonably priced health plan... View Details
      Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health
      • 06 Apr 2010
      • First Look

      First Look: April 6

      rights and efficient debt enforcement mitigate the effect of excess control rights on loan spreads. Taken together, our results suggest that potential tunneling and other moral hazard activities by large shareholders are facilitated by... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • 21 Feb 2017
      • First Look

      First Look at New Research: February 21

      Targeted Firms By: Cohen, Lauren, Umit G. Gurun, and Scott Duke Kominers Abstract—We develop a theoretical model of, and provide the first large-sample evidence on, the behavior and impact of non-practicing entities (NPEs) in the intellectual property space. Our model... View Details
      Keywords: Carmen Nobel
      • 18 Jul 2005
      • Research & Ideas

      Time to Rethink the Corporate Tax System?

      relegated to specialists within corporations, given the risks that it entails. Q: If both shareholders and tax authorities are potentially worse off from all this activity, what should be done about this... View Details
      Keywords: by Ann Cullen