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- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
Cialis's hard-won brand equity with physicians and patients? With the final stages of clinical trials for the new indication, benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), soon to be carried out, the team had to make a decision soon. On its face,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 6, 2016
same time, the nation sustained an expansive and brutal system of human bondage. This was no mere coincidence. Slavery's Capitalism argues for slavery's centrality to the emergence of American capitalism in the decades between the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2020
- In Practice
Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On
and prepare to lead transformation. While it is still not clear how long the health crisis and resulting economic crisis will last, most agree that the world will be different in the future. Use the insights you are gaining from your fast-cycled crisis response... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 09 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 9, 2008
independent social rating agency and avoids selection issues by taking advantage of a natural experiment that arose when the agency expanded the scope of its ratings. We find empirical support for our hypotheses and present implications for managers of rated companies... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 5, 2008
paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-024.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsBerkshire Partners: Purchase of Rival Company (A) Harvard Business School Case 208-023 Berkshire Partners, a private equity... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
agents, and this tension presents a boundary condition for when a group decision is superior to an individual decision. We test the implications of the model for a particular phenomenon in venture capital: private angel investments by the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
Michelle Dipp, MD, Ph.D, CEO and co-founder of OvaScience, had just received a buyout offer from PG Ventures, a private equity firm interested in acquiring the innovative fertility treatments company. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
surprisingly, local governments exercise the greatest control over urban land in cities that adopted market reforms earliest. Slavery's Scientific Management: Accounting for Mastery Author:Caitlin C.Rosenthal Publication:In Slavery's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
Flying J. Flying J owned and operated hundreds of truck stops—which it called Travel Plazas—nationwide and was a growing multi-billion dollar business, but broader problems in the oil and credit markets in late 2008 forced it to declare... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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.)
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
Publication:Harvard Business Review 87, no. 5 (May 2009) Abstract Few companies are thinking about hiring right now, but that's a mistake. If history is any guide, staffing will become a front-burner issue once the economic upheaval eases. Even now, companies are... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
the BCBS affiliate and its rivals increased premiums following conversions in markets where the converting affiliate had substantial market share. Medicaid enrollment rates also increased in these markets, a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Entering the Age of Alliances
carry out community service projects, to which they gave more than twenty thousand employee hours in 1998. Each organization considers the relationship with the other to be of central strategic importance. That these emerging strategic... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
Working PapersThe Seer of Wellesley Hills: Roger Babson and the Babson Statistical Organization Author:Walter A. Friedman Abstract Roger Babson was a pioneer of the business-forecasting industry in the United States in the early twentieth century. He built the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
think in any of these cases I launched a revolution, but I think I was helpful. But the pace was so slow, and people were saying that these high deductibles represented consumer-driven health care. It's ridiculous. Consumer markets have... View Details
- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
definition that extends the concept beyond the traditional binary retain/not retain view of retention. We discuss a variety of metrics to measure and monitor retention. We present an integrated framework for managing retention that leverages View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
Shadow Cold War delves deeper into the era to examine the competition between the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China for the leadership of the world revolution. When a world of newly independent states emerged from... View Details
- 28 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 28
high-tech entrepreneurship from three path-breaking entrepreneurs who emerged as CEOs of huge global companies. Their approaches to formulating strategy and building organizations offer unique insights for start-up executives as well as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018
non-stereotypical characteristic. A reluctance to discriminate emerges if workers share the gender or birth month of the worker from the worse-performing group, but even then, a small “excuse" counters this reluctance. Thus, our... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace
emerging when they begin thinking in terms of what it means to create deeper meaning in the workplace. "Rather than defining spirituality for people," says Whiteley, "I ask them to think of a time, be it at work,... View Details
Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso