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October 2016 (Revised January 2017)
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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

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13 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees

not necessarily an aggressive response. Yet it requires a response informed by a concern with public health combined with compassion for the victims. As women tend to lead in a more participative manner than... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

05 Aug 2014
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First Look: August 5

Publications August 2014 Journal of Experimental Psychology: General Emodiversity and the Emotional Ecosystem By: Quoidbach, Jordi, June Gruber, Moïra Mikolajczak, Alexsandr Kogan, Ilios Kotsou, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—Bridging... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Nov 2020
In Practice

How Retailers Can Thrive in a Shopping Season Like No Other

around promises to be different. Public health measures needed to curb the spread of COVID-19 have pummeled local retailers reliant on foot traffic. Revenues are down across the board. In the face of these... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Retail

15 Aug 2006
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First Look: August 15, 2006

carburetors. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-009.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsInnovating in Health Care—Framework Harvard Business School Note 306-042 Contains the framework for the second-year Innovating... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

Planning for Surprises

too often, we only address problems after the surprise has occurred. Q: Your book uses examples of widely known surprises in the public record, including the 9/11 attacks. As a business example, you use what you call the looming crisis of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

30 Jun 2020
Book

Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever

The book Capitalism at Risk first appeared in 2011. The problems it identified with social inequality, global trade strife, and environmental degradation have only accelerated by 2020. The new edition of Capitalism at Risk, subtitled How Business Can Lead, is expanded... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

May 16, 2016
Article

Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer

By: Dina Gerdeman and John A. Quelch

Chipotle Mexican Grill’s ongoing struggle to win customers back months after a contaminated food crisis highlights the challenges companies face with keeping food safe.

Chipotle has seen its shares tumble and recently reported its first-ever quarterly loss... View Details

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08 Sep 2015
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September 8, 2015

Galinsky Abstract—At some point, every company makes a mistake that requires an apology—to an individual; a group of customers, employees, or business partners; or the public at large. And more often than not, companies and their leaders... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Feb 2022
What Do You Think?

Is Concierge Management an Answer to the “Big Quit”?

(iStockphoto/Mladen Zivkovic) Several years ago, my spouse and I turned to concierge medicine. We no longer wanted to deal with a US health care system that often provides basically anonymous, production line diagnosis and treatment... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

15 Feb 2017
Op-Ed

What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects

African nations, as in the United States, a key role of government is the funding, construction, and maintenance of the public infrastructure that benefits everyone. This obviously is not being accomplished to an adequate degree by... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction

17 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 17

failed to institute a ban on serving sizes of large sugary beverages. Obesity posed a large public health risk to the city. Mayor Bloomberg's proposed ban was one of many attempts to combat the rising threat... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Apr 2013
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Publications 2006 University of Chicago Press Manufacturing Morals: The Values of Silence in Business School Education By: Anteby, Michel Abstract—Corporate accountability is never far from the front page, and Harvard Business School... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 9

Publications September 2014 Cambridge University Press Consumer Lending in France and America: Credit and Welfare By: Trumbull, Gunnar Abstract—Why did America embrace consumer credit over the course of the twentieth century, when most... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 22

child education and health in the least likely setting of rural Uttar Pradesh. Building on the recent literature on culture and public action, and relying on extensive field research, village-level... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Oct 2016
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October 4, 2016

reductions in higher-order multiple (HOM) live births (defined as three or more fetuses), following the initial publication of the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology (SART) guidelines on ET in 1998. Design: Descriptive use and... View Details

22 Aug 2006
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First Look: August 22, 2006

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-011.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsCutlass Capital, L.P. Harvard Business School Case 805-075 David Hetz and Jon Osgood are forming a new venture capital fund in 2001 to invest in health care... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

18 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 18

Publications February 2015 Little, Brown and Company Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges By: Cuddy, Amy Abstract—We often meet life's challenges with fear and anxiety. We fail to be our best and end up... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Jan 2012
Op-Ed

Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail

magazine, a well-read US publication devoted to in-depth stories on music, politics, and pop culture, featured Murdoch at the top of its list of politicians or business executives that "hindered progress on global warming." The... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler; Information; Publishing

06 May 2014
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Publications August 2013 Cambridge University Press Democracy and Its Elected Enemies: American Political Capture and Economic Decline By: Rosefielde, Steven, and Daniel Quinn Mills Abstract—Democracy and Its Elected Enemies reveals... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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