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  • 14 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 14, 2010

on the loan used to finance the Momentive buyout and allow issuance of senior secured notes. The case is set up from the perspective of a hedge fund that holds a fraction of Momentive's syndicated loan. The case serves as a vehicle for discussing contractual... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 2

http://hbr.org/search/313085-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 413-060 Iz-Lynn Chan at Far East Organization Iz-Lynn Chan, assistant director of retail business group and service quality and vice president of Far East retail consultancy for Far East Organization, a... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 14 Dec 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance

privately held) or for shareholders (if it's public). The interests of the customers, the firm, and the owners become aligned by the customer actually paying for the product. In the nonprofit sector you rarely have this kind of alignment... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 13 Jul 2010
  • First Look

First Look: July 13

turnaround expert, Andrew Macey, as COO to help him in the effort. Pearson and Macey have several options to consider: Should HLB raise $1 million in debt financing and focus on a turnaround or should it approach a View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

Barry Abstract—Many markets, including the markets for IPOs and debt issuances, are syndicated, in that a bidder who wins a contract will often invite competitors to join a syndicate that will fulfill the contract. We model syndicated... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jan 2016
  • First Look

January 19, 2016

reasons—and revisits the associated implications for investing and corporate finance, examining asset allocation, high leverage in financial firms, low leverage in industrial firms, private equity, venture capital, and bank capital... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

1.11 Leaves of Absence | MBA

bill that is unpaid for 60 days or more may be subject to collection activities. The costs associated with collecting an unpaid account will be added to the student’s outstanding debt and must be paid in full. Students expecting a refund... View Details
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important choices that private equity firms make after closure of the transactions. In particular, the critical operational levers that drive value creation will be examined, as well as governance, board effectiveness and impact, and... View Details
  • 21 Jun 2011
  • First Look

First Look: June 21

and Siddharth Shenai Abstract We study the impact of ethnic and religious fractionalization on the U.S. municipal debt market and find that issuers from more ethnically and religiously fractionalized counties pay higher yields on their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Feb 1997
  • News

Doing It Your Way

idea for her store four years ago while accompanying her father-in-law on shopping trips for medical equipment. "We're one of four superstores in the country that allows people to 'road test' items such as wheelchairs and walkers before buying them," she says. View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso (profiles by Linda Goodspeed, Elaine Gottlieb, Nancy O. Perry, and Judith A. Ross)
  • 29 Apr 2025
  • News

Challenge Accepted

seed capital and piloted MLT’s initial programming. Over the past 20 years, MLT has provided professional coaching and a high-performance playbook to 15,000 individuals and developed over 1,000 senior executive leaders across the private... View Details
Keywords: challenges; failure; advice; experience
  • 12 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 12, 2007

Hassell, and Michael D. Kimbrough Periodical:Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting (forthcoming) Abstract The 1990s were characterized by substantial increases in the performance of an investor reliance on financial analysts. Because managers possess superior... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 28, 2009

with these companies in a variety of roles, including those of founders, shareholders, or managers of their own family's firm, as well as those of non-family managers and employees, investors or business partners (e.g., private equity... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 5, 2008

markets. Behind such corporations was a market for capital in which entrepreneurs had to attract investors to buy either debt or equity. This paper examines the investor protections included in corporate bylaws that enabled corporations... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Feb 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019

the BCBS affiliate and its rivals increased premiums following conversions in markets where the converting affiliate had substantial market share. Medicaid enrollment rates also increased in these markets, a pattern consistent with "crowd in" of families who were... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 8

including assessing charges for insuring against losses. Without such a comprehensive assessment and improvement plan, boards cannot do their jobs, and the system will remain as subject to calamitous events as it was before the crisis. Property Rights for Foreign... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Nov 2013
  • First Look

First Look: November 26

existed, but by 1939, there were over 88,000. Approximately half were joint stock firms, and these outperformed limited and unlimited partnerships on a return on equity basis, while also accounting for most of the aggregate profits. When the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 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
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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.)
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