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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; Health 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.)
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
stations to give health care workers a discount on gas. Given their expertise in helping employees cope with stress, enterprise wellness platform Whil decided to offer its services free of charge through the... View Details
- 27 Jun 2016
- News
Ulf Mark Schneider Has Plans to Make Nestlé Healthy
Nestlé’s growth plans: Health products, including medical foods for patients with conditions such as Alzheimers’ and gastrointestinal problems, have become an increasing focus for Nestlé in recent years, with a string of acquisitions and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Debbie Cohen Scales Her Mountain
Cohen is considering a career transition into health care. "I'd like to apply my skills in marketing and communications to health and medical services. In particular, the e-health world is exploding with... View Details
Keywords: Morgan Baker
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Collaborative Cures
as well as additional funding for activities such as due diligence, market research, and other tasks necessary to determine the best route for product commercialization. Since its launch in 2013, fellows have created 17 companies in... View Details
- 16 Dec 2021
- News
A Global Alumni Response to the Pandemic
fill the gaps in the production of personal protective equipment (PPE). Many stepped in to fight hunger, provide support for health professionals and frontline workers, deploy technology in new ways that helped communities thrive, and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Wheels Up
built in Europe in more than 20 years. As CEO of global airports and travel retail group daa plc, Dalton Philips (MBA 1998) leads operations in Dublin and airports in Cork, Riyadh, Dusseldorf, and Cyprus, as well as duty-free outlets in... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 22 Feb 2010
- Research & Ideas
Manager Visibility No Guarantee of Fixing Problems
Motions: An Empirical Test of Management Involvement in Process Improvement," HBS professor Anita L. Tucker and Harvard School of Public Health professor Sara J. Singer show that communicating with frontline workers can backfire if... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
A New Approach to Health-Care Reform
CHRISTENSEN: “By some estimates, 50 percent of all health care is driven by physician and hospital supply, not by patients’ needs.” An acclaimed author and expert on the development and commercialization of technological and business... View Details
- 10 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Learning Curve: Making the Most of Outsourcing
the vendor of outsourced services can improve the efficiency and perhaps the quality of services delivered—particularly in health care, where outsourcing is on the rise. In research recently published in the journal Organization Science,... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Action Plan: Just Breathe
pain: major surgery requiring months of recuperation or meditation to manage the stress that was at the root of his health issues. But the practice didn’t fit with his image of a type A, high-powered executive. “I came to meditation... View Details
Keywords: April White
- January 2020
- Case
Celata Bioinnovations
By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
In December 2019, Jon Hu (HBS ‘19) and Dr. Samantha Dale Strasser, co-founders of Celata Bioinnovations, were raising $1 million to launch their company. They had founded Celata less than six months earlier with the aim of redefining the drug discovery process.... View Details
Keywords: Drug Development; Drug Discovery; Drug Trials; Pharmaceutical Companies; Pharmaceutical Company; Pharmaceuticals; Therapeutics; Biologics; Biotech; Biotechnology; Biopharmacy Company; Biochemistry; Technology Commercialization; Technology Companies; Drug Testing; Startup; Start-up; Startups; Start-ups; Startup Financing; Strategic Decision Making; Strategic Decisions; Strategic Evolution; FDA; Food And Drug Administration; Clinical Trials; Disease Management; Market Attractiveness; Market Entry; Market Opportunities; Health Disorders; Technological Innovation; Information Technology; Commercialization; Business Startups; Finance; Decision Making; Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Opportunities; Pharmaceutical Industry; Biotechnology Industry
Wells, John R., and Benjamin Weinstock. "Celata Bioinnovations." Harvard Business School Case 720-427, January 2020.
- 21 Nov 2024
- News
Mother Nurture
Julia Cole, Tina Keshani, and Sophia Richter (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) When Tina Keshani (MBA 2020), Julia Cole (MBA 2020), and Sophia Richter (MBA 2020) met at Startup Boot Camp in their first year at HBS, they quickly discovered they shared a vision to create a... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
Rhenisch Rick Bern/Courtesy Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector Authority A community organizer during the 1960s, Madelyn Rhenisch was a pioneering advocate for better medical care for the people of rural upstate New York. More... View Details
- 29 May 2020
- Op-Ed
How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents
COVID-19 is creating unprecedented strains on food security worldwide. The United Nations' World Food Programme warns that the pandemic could almost double the number of people facing food crises in low- and middle-income populations to 265 million by the end of 2020.... View Details
- 20 Apr 2020
- News
To Build Connection in Quarantine, Clubs Go Virtual
put them in the proper perspective,” says Seftel, a physician and immunology expert whose company, Enable, is currently developing a highly-sensitive rapid COVID-19 test with its public health laboratory partners. “There’s been a lot of... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 02 Sep 2022
- News
Strength in Numbers
for mental health, an organization that can increase awareness and reduce the stigma of illness as well as rally donors to make large, multiyear funding commitments to the most promising care and research in the field, especially for... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Clubs Hopping: A Healthy Dialogue
his story of turning an early-stage medical device company into a market leader with about $400 million in revenues. His plan included adding and integrating significant and complex acquisitions as well as empowering his employees to keep... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Case Study: The Doctor Deficit
that today’s nurse shortage could reach 1.2 million vacancies in the same time frame. Alexi Nazem (MBA 2011) has seen the impact of these shortages firsthand. “Health care is a very broken system,” says the doctor and cofounder of Nomad Health, an online marketplace... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
status-symbol luxuries, like expensive watches or designer jeans. Why do consumers pay so much for products whose ingredients are well known to represent only a small proportion of the retail price? Beauty is certainly, as one recent... View Details