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  • 09 Dec 2010
  • News

Driving the Market for Big-Rig Engines

Keywords: Machinery Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 01 Jun 2017
  • News

Life in Lockdown

average amount on clothes,” she says. It is now 4:30 p.m. Back in Morris Hall, the team huddles around their laptops designing the look and functionality of an app that, just hours earlier, was a shadow... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers; photography by Chris Churchill
  • 13 Feb 2020
  • News

Honoring a Legend

Scottsdale-area HBS alumni More than a dozen HBS alumni in the Scottsdale area convened at the Mountain Shadows Resort to hear about the business of ridesharing from Drena Kusari (MBA 2008), General Manager... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • Web

Multimedia Development | Information Technology

today’s standards but ground-breaking for its time—10 years before YouTube would make streaming video ubiquitous. Featured Case of the Month The Reinvention of Kodak The Kodak multimedia case highlights the... View Details
  • May 2018 (Revised January 2019)
  • Teaching Note

Lind Equipment

By: Richard S. Ruback, Royce Yudkoff and Ahron Rosenfeld
Teaching Note for HBS No. 212-012. Lind Equipment, a Canadian manufacturer and distributor of industrial electrical safety equipment, was purchased in December 2007 by Brian Astl (HBS 2006) and Sean Van Doorselaer. Lind’s performance was negatively impacted by the... View Details
Keywords: Recession; Seller Debt; Equity; Financial Condition; Borrowing and Debt; Capital; Revenue; Financing and Loans; Financial Strategy; Financial Management; Acquisition; Financial Crisis; Currency Exchange Rate; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Manufacturing Industry; Industrial Products Industry
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  • 01 Dec 2015
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015

navigate life’s most difficult situations. The book is filled with stories of people facing a range of challenges, from going on job interviews to asking someone out; scientific research on how our bodies... View Details
  • 27 Feb 2007
  • First Look

First Look: February 27, 2007

instead reflect more "top-down" interventions. We conclude with a discussion of some of the historical evidence on top-down interventions. Illicit Invention: Tracing Technological Development in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

2017 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Breaking "Performance" Through Performance" at the 2017 Gender and Work Symposium. Nadia's mission is to bring light to cultural shadow through storytelling, challenging the status quo through laughter. Nadia Manzoor writer and performer... View Details
  • 17 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?

a nation still shadowed by Mao Zedong’s controversial legacy institute market-based reforms that have made the country the world’s second-largest economic power. He has helped document that journey as the author View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
  • 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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  • 01 Dec 2008
  • News

Business at the Summit

evolution,” he explained. “It is never good when the state intervenes to the point that it essentially controls a financial system and makes bankruptcy a near impossibility.” Citing Harvard economist Joseph Schumpeter, Ferguson observed... View Details
Keywords: leadership; alumni events; Centennial; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Finance; Management
  • Web

Make clear where we stand and where we aim to go. - Advancing Racial Equity

HBS has listed first among its Community Values “respect for the rights, differences, and dignity of others.” Racism is a blatant violation of the respect we expect every member View Details
  • 23 May 2018
  • News

John A. Paulson, MBA 1980

1984 Joins Bear Stearns, M&A Managing Director 1988 Named Partner, Gruss Partners 1994 Launches Paulson & Co. 2007 Makes what many call the “greatest trade ever” on subprime mortgage market 2012 Contributes historic donation to Central Park Conservancy 2015 Endows... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 17 Jan 2025
  • News

Tracking Modern Air Travel’s Takeoff

bankruptcy before leaving the industry in 1990 to found the investment firm, Savoy Capital. Lorenzo offers a blow-by-blow of the industry's transformation in his new memoir, Flying for Peanuts: Tough Deals,... View Details
  • 20 Oct 2017
  • Blog Post

Taking Care to Prepare Leaders: Lessons in Leadership Development from DaVita Kidney Care

Fast-track to responsibility In DaVita’s Redwoods Program, future leaders move quickly into real responsibility. After a learning phase in which participants (called “Redwoods” in DaVita vernacular) shadow clinical team members to, Coyle... View Details
Keywords: Health Care
  • 01 Oct 1999
  • News

Four Promoted to Full Professor

environment. He has written on a broad range of restructuring topics, including corporate bankruptcy and debt workouts, tracking stock, equity spin-offs, corporate downsizing, bank mergers, and employee... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2004
  • News

Promise & Perils

arrival of large multinational competitors such as Wal-Mart and Carrefour. The SOEs in particular are feeling threatened. Of the 100,000 that remain, experts maintain that many are near View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 07 Jan 2015
  • Research & Ideas

The Quest for Better Layoffs

company ravaged by a massive fire. "They were very upset," says Sucher, the MBA Class of 1966 Professor of Management Practice and Joseph L. Rice, III Faculty Fellow at HBS. "What upset them... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing
  • Profile

Terrance McGuire

Silicon Valley—was the more significant hotbed for entrepreneurs. “At HBS, I got exposure to that buzz,” he said. Early on, he became a member of the venture capital club and in his second year, he became the club’s president.... View Details
  • 22 Feb 2022
  • News

Savings and Loam

use marginal farmland. “The reason that’s critical is because it’s an important source of incremental income for a farm,” Cummings explains. He wants to support the Davids of the sustainable food world that... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance