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From the Chief Financial Officer | Annual Report 2024
revenue from the group’s Corporate Learning and Harvard Business Press components, as well as to a decline in advertising revenue. Focusing on long-term financial growth, the group continued its investment in new product development,... View Details
- 21 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation
two steps to the side, and jumps over a large pothole. Congress took a giant step forward by establishing a framework for monitoring and addressing systemically risky institutions (SRI). The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
investment firm, he and his partners paid particular attention to defining their corporate culture by considering, “How are we going to behave with each other, how we’re going to be with clients, how do we practice our authenticity?” he... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
investors), creating philanthropic endeavors and single-mindedly pursuing her dream of building an empire, taking it public, and cashing out all the investors. Corporate and Family Governance: The Two... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
A. Malachi Mixon, III, MBA 1968
Chairman & CEO, Invacare Corporation Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EUDUCATION Harvard College, 1962 A.B., Physical Sciences LIFELONG LESSON FROM HBS "At HBS I learned about all the functional parts of a business... View Details
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Marketing Wine to the World
even centuries. In contrast, the New World has a number of large, publicly held corporations that are beginning to play a substantial role in the marketplace. To put this in perspective, consider the fact that France has over 230,000... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
University Press) Walter Friedman’s Birth of a Salesman: The Transformation of Selling in America documents the history of salesmanship, from the days of peddlers to the creation of modern sales forces at companies like National Cash... View Details
- 03 Jun 2015
- What Do You Think?
Is the Time Right for Self-Management?
company's vision." Charlie Efford added that "The key to self-management becoming embedded is changing the mindset of the management team. Most corporations haven't made this shift." Denis Collet suggested "it's all... View Details
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
Cheng, J. Yo-Jud, and Boris Groysberg Abstract—: Corporate directors and executives alike recognize that today’s pace of change continues to accelerate and that firms need to innovate to stay ahead. But are boards doing enough to support... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities
TelePrompTer and TCI, nearly went bankrupt during the early 1970s due to excessive debt leverage. 20 The cash drain from building and operating cable franchises encouraged industry consolidation. Despite the fact that over three thousand... View Details
- 20 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 20
Corporate and Integrated Reporting: A Functional Perspective By: Eccles, Robert G., and George Serafeim Abstract—In this paper, we present the two primary functions of corporate reporting (information and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Military and the MBA
their peers,” he says. For Army Colonel Everett Spain (DBA 2014), who served in Kosovo and Iraq, it’s equally clear why military veterans are attracted to business school: “In business, you can continue to be a leader of character in an investment bank or a Fortune 500... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Rankings Game
recent MBA graduates and corporate recruiters. U.S. News is alone in asking deans and MBA program administrators for their views on top schools, and it gives significant weight to undergrad GPAs and GMAT scores. Forbes relies solely on... View Details
- 25 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
New Learning at American Home Products
division integrating product development and marketing, but without significant research capability. For all but chemicals and prescription drugs, the corporate focus was on marketing, especially advertising.24 In prescription drugs, the... View Details
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Big Companies, Big Opportunities—Big Questions
for corporate groups in Latin America from working within protected economies and industries to being completely open to the global economy," he said. "We're going to have to be much more entrepreneurial than we were in the... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
- 01 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Keeping Track: Performance Measurement, Control & Strategy
Dávila, now on the faculty of Stanford Business School. Some thirty case studies are also available in a version of the book geared toward students as well as managers who want to tap more extensively into examples of best practice. Q: Business is booming for View Details
Keywords: Re: Robert Simons
- 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.)
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
on bond risks. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2332106 Opting Out of Good Governance By: Foley, C. Fritz, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Jonathan Greenstein, and Eric Zwick Abstract—Cross-listing on a U.S. exchange does not bond foreign firms to follow the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
large-scale corporations and free competition, American Fair Trade argues that trade associations of independent proprietors lobbied and litigated to reshape competition policy to their benefit. At the turn of the 20th century, this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 30
& Law (forthcoming) Abstract The globalization of accounting standards as seen through the proliferation of IFRS worldwide is one of the most important developments in corporate governance over the last decade. I offer an analysis of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne