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- 13 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 13, 2007
can achieve. Should he accept the offer provided by a private equity firm that is buying up other small competitors in his industry? Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807125 The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 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.)
- 04 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018
to shareholders $7 trillion via buybacks and dividends, over 96% of their aggregate net income, prompting claims that "short-termism" is impairing firms' ability to invest and innovate. We show that, when taking into account both direct and indirect View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 14, 2010
perceive the value of CSR strategies more favorably. Our results document how CSR strategies can affect value creation in public equity markets through analyst recommendations. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 12, 2006
Authors:Laura Alfaro and Eliza Hammel Periodical:Journal of International Economics (forthcoming) Abstract Studying the relation between equity market liberalization and imports of capital goods, we examine one channel through which... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
those numbers. And it has become steadily less patient for results, in part because now you can get the numbers back from the market overnight. Private equity firms, with their short time horizons and relentless pressure for results, are... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Homeschooled
For equity reasons, many districts have focused on just reviewing material presented up to the time of closure. Students are going to have to do a lot of catching up and will need more time on task when they return to the classroom.... View Details
- 21 May 2018
- News
Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
Department at Gibbons PC In Newark, led a conversation about the responsibilities of managers and companies when an employee has been named in a complaint. Panelist Kenna Baudin (MBA 1994), head of U.S. private equity at executive search... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
Michael Jensen, a finance expert, how what is happening today compares to what transpired in the 1980s. A decade ago, Jensen explains, M&As; were often associated with downsizing and what he describes as "the freeing of equity trapped in... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 29 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
School Case 218-094 Celgene In February 2011, Adam Koppel, a managing director at Brookside Capital, the public equity arm of Bain Capital, must decide whether to increase or exit the firm’s position in Celgene Corporation. News has... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
information aggregation treatments do not affect total equity investment when we make the investment environment more realistic than in prior experiments. Previously documented aggregation effects are not robust to changes in the risky... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution
broad-assortment retailers are facing impacts across almost every category in their stores. Reading the commentary of equity analysts, one is impressed by the extent to which supercenters like Walmart and warehouse clubs like Costco have... View Details
- 05 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 5, 2010
organization for re-emerging from conservatorship. In the background, housing prices continue to deteriorate, and the company continues to lose money. In addition, political views continue to shift regarding the future regulatory and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation
banking is done through the likes of the repo market and securitization. The behavior of the equity and futures markets during the financial crisis has been living proof of the endurance of well-organized markets. Although we saw dizzying... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
traction the business got in the market but by the number of people we were able to employ. In 2009, while I was working in Senegal with a private equity firm, Ndidi and I noticed that a huge amount of the packaged food in stores was... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
In Review
reckoning sparked by the killing of George Floyd. We formed a Dean’s Anti-Racism Taskforce to examine what we need to do and announced a plan to advance racial equity at the School. We must now implement this plan and show results over... View Details
- 17 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 17, 2018
assessment and valuation technique used in the private equity industry. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/218106-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 718-484 Institutionalized Entrepreneurship: Flagship Pioneering No... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Does a Social Startup Decide to Commercialize? It May Depend on the Founder's Gender
communities—across a host of dimensions—are essential to increasing global equity and sustainability,” Mueller continues. “We believe that increased access and exposure to other leaders and models, paired with resources including quality... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 24 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 24
Prosperity In 2014, Khuram Mir, CEO of HN Agri Serve, an innovative apple orchard company in the Kashmir region of Northern India, wonders about the best growth strategy for his company. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/515006-PDF-ENG... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Is a Gap in Small-Business Credit Holding Back the American Economy?
access to public institutional debt and equity capital markets and the uncertainty of small business profits makes retained earnings a necessarily less stable source of capital. About 48 percent of business owners report a major bank as... View Details