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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
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  • 21 Jun 2011
  • First Look

First Look: June 21

does not deliver goods as specified in the contract. The empirical results indicate that transactions are more likely to occur on cash in advance or letter of credit terms when the importer is located in a country with weak contractual... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • February 2018 (Revised August 2018)
  • Case

Blue Haven Initiative: The PEGAfrica Investment

By: Vikram S. Gandhi, Caitlin Reimers Brumme and Amram Migdal
This case examines Blue Haven Initiative (BHI), an impact investing fund and family office, and one of its investments, PEGAfrica (PEG). BHI founder Liesel Pritzker Simmons’ motivations for using her family wealth to start a family office focused on impact investing,... View Details
Keywords: Impact Investing; Family Office; Development; International Development; International Development Investing; Development Fund; Sustainability; Solar Energy; Solar; Pay As You Go; PAYG; MFI; Social Venture; Business Ventures; Acquisition; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Economics; Development Economics; Energy; Energy Conservation; Energy Sources; Renewable Energy; Social Entrepreneurship; Finance; Assets; Asset Pricing; Capital; Capital Budgeting; Capital Structure; Venture Capital; Cash; Cash Flow; Currency; Currency Exchange Rate; Equity; Private Equity; Financial Instruments; Debt Securities; Stock Shares; Financing and Loans; Microfinance; International Finance; Investment; Investment Return; Investment Activism; Investment Funds; Investment Portfolio; Price; Geography; Geographic Location; Emerging Markets; Ownership; Ownership Stake; Private Ownership; Social Enterprise; Value; Valuation; Value Creation; Energy Industry; Financial Services Industry; Green Technology Industry; Africa; United States
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  • 20 Aug 2013
  • First Look

First Look: August 20

empirically the method proposed by Arcidiacono and Miller (2011) to accommodate unobserved latent class heterogeneity using a computationally light two-step estimator. Second, we illustrate how discount factors can be estimated in a... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 20 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency

dictate the broad outlines of any proposed legislation. His proposal, also known as the Ryan-Brady plan, is not just a renovation or a gut-rehab, it’s a teardown. It shifts the base of taxation to consumption from income through a “destination-based View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
  • 25 Sep 2012
  • First Look

First Look: September 25

financing from leading venture capital (VC) firms and by 2012 had been cash flow positive for the past six quarters. Its founder, Bryan Mistele, was looking to pivot into high growth and faced several... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 28

When the firm operates above this threshold, managing earnings smoothes revenue and cash flow with few long-term consequences. Below it, managing earnings can tip the firm into a vicious cycle of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • Web

Entrepreneurship Outside the Valley - Course Catalog

Additionally, in countries where the cash economy is prevalent, startups must consider how they can convince businesses to enter the formal economy. A third type of startup that exists in some, but not all, emerging entrepreneurial... View Details
  • 02 Oct 2015
  • News

The ‘F’ Word

had worked so hard for was the very thing that would kill us. That realization led me to the development of NOWaccount, a merchant service that relieves small businesses from the burden of funding and managing trade credit by immediately enabling payment for a 2.5... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
  • 06 May 2014
  • First Look

First Look: May 6

examine how the quantity of information generated about firm prospects can be improved by splitting a firm's cash flow into a "safe" claim (debt) and a "risky" claim (equity). The former,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2018
  • News

Hard Choices

also apparent that a dollar of earnings generated through business expansion may be an annuity, and perhaps even a growing one, while a dollar gained from cost savings is a one-time improvement, an incremental cash View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
  • 04 Mar 2013
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar

with the lessons taught in BSSE. "I tell my students that they'll get a better framework in this 14-week course than I got in 14 years at the school of hard knocks," Huber says. "General Motors spent a billion dollars on my tuition. That was the negative... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Auto
  • 16 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 16

With less internally generated cash flow available to fund the project, management had to decide how much capital to raise, what kind to raise, and when to raise it. These decisions would determine its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Oct 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

among them was a severe cash flow constraint that prevented Frederic Schreurs from properly forecasting and investing resources to maximize the BIP’s impact. As traffic inched along, Sanginga contemplated... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 16 Dec 2020
  • News

A Creator in the Era of Disruption

way to solve it. Morrell: With this goal and the investments from Omidyar and others, Ruma pivoted and soon rebranded as Mapan, a word that implies something is “financially self-sufficient.” Haryopratomo: What Mapan does is it solves a really clear View Details
  • 25 Sep 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018

company, faced a strategically important capital allocation decision. After the exit of its private equity sponsors in 2016, HCA had to determine how best to allocate its substantial annual free cash flows... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 05 Feb 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Business and the Global Poor

Could you describe some of these entrepreneurial efforts? A: There is a lot of talk—both in this book and elsewhere—about the massive potential consumer market at the base of the economic pyramid. However, for a poor consumer, participating in the marketplace requires... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Mar 2021
  • News

New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts

Essential Toolkit for Practitioners By Scott M. Weiner (AMP 193, 2017) McGraw-Hill Education Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are growing, and they’re not slowing down. With more than $4.5 trillion in assets, and cash View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 10 Jan 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Knowledge Coach

wireless solutions. As Reddy recalled his second meeting, Chandra "tore the Unimobile business plan apart," noting that the revenue projections were unrealistic and the business focus was too diffuse—but still he invested in the company. The chain of... View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
  • 26 Jul 2011
  • First Look

First Look: July 26

by $2.1 trillion in 2010 dollars. By either measure, cash flows received from abroad exceeded 160% of net investments, implying that foreign investment over these periods was dynamically efficient. Download... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne