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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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Hakluyt: From Corporate Intelligence to Trusted Advisors

By: Joseph B. Fuller and Lena Duchene

Established in 1995 by a group of ex-British intelligence officers, Hakluyt & Company (Hakluyt) was a corporate advisory firm that generated insights by leveraging a unique blend of internal expertise and a global network of well-connected individuals. Since 2019, the... View Details

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18 Oct 2006
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New at the Helm: A Talk with HBS Dean Light

Departments. "The underlying logic of much of decision and control theory was similar to the underlying structure of how we at JPL would design trajectories and track and control a spacecraft," says Light. "So... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Education

07 Nov 2011
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The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy

were just not the ones other scholars were talking about. I wanted to read and write about those books. I first had the idea of hanging the book's structure on Cary when I saw on my shelf a number of increasingly voluminous translations... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009

competitive standing of their domestic pharmaceutical industries. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-118.pdf Capitalizing On Innovation: The Case of Japan Authors:Robert Dujarric and Andrei Hagiu Abstract Japan's... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

27 Sep 2006
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Report From Egypt: Studying Global Influences

management and opportunities? What's the buzz? A: Some small businesses are concerned about how to find capital and partners. Some protected domestic companies are concerned about the government's growing interest in foreign direct... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

21 May 2007
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Fixing the Marketing-CEO Disconnect

virtually overnight. Poor marketing is largely to blame. Third, and perhaps most important, the fundamental nature of marketing has shifted so rapidly that many companies have not kept pace, making them vulnerable to more savvy competitors, and unable to View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

08 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 8, 2008

distribution, where new startups fail within the first three years following entry. This churning emphasizes a new mechanism through which financial sector reforms impact product markets. It is not exclusively better ex ante allocation of View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

13 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 13, 2009

structurally attractive for soft drink firms, and b) if so, how can Pepsi best "catch-up" with Coca-Cola in a given market. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

23 Aug 2004
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Strategy for Small Fish

ventures during the venture capital boom of the late 1990s was selecting areas that had no staying power, such as Web calendars or Web-dispatched limousine services. Over time, it was inevitable that these new niches would merge with... View Details

Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien

07 Aug 2000
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The Business of Biotech

will give way to $200 to $300 million drugs. That will be a very different world for big drug companies, with different cost structures and resource-allocation processes." And the drug industry won't be the only field affected,... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Biotechnology; Health; Technology

23 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 23

reputations, or the banks' prominence in structured financing markets. Banks' involvement in private equity investments provides significant cross-selling opportunities. Collectively, this evidence is consistent with banks' taking... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Jan 2016
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January 12, 2016

practitioners often exhibit confusion about whether the terms "integrative" and "distributive" refer to behavior or to underlying issue structure (or both). Third, the authors develop the "Distributive Bargaining... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

15 Nov 2016
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November 15, 2016

R&D-intensive sectors can be screened effectively using information on their non-human capital assets. In contrast, such information is not sufficient to screen ventures in non-R&D-intensive sectors. Download working paper:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 18, 2007

study of business and the global poor. In recent years, there has been ample evidence, both in the literature and in capital markets, of the ability of leading microfinance institutions, particularly in Latin America and Asia, to generate... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

16 Dec 2020
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Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement

changing world, if your business is built on the assumption that diversity and inclusion is a ‘nice to have,’ it’s an unstable territory,” Ric Lewis (PMD 69, 1995), executive chairman and CIO of London-based Tristan Capital Partners,... View Details

03 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 3

Entrepreneurial Beacons: The Yale Endowment, Run-ups, and the Growth of Venture Capital By: McDonald, Rory, Y. Sekou Bermiss, Benjamin J. Hallen, and Emily Cox Pahnke Abstract—This paper investigates the social context of entrepreneurship... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Apr 2012
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structuring of consumer loans than those who are not. Conditional on using decision-making authority, their decisions are also less risky ex post. These findings demonstrate employee selection as an important, but understudied, element of... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

29 Nov 2004
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Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors

Silicon Valley. We focused our research on these two regions because they're both technologically dynamic and because of previous research on the influence of networks on regional innovation. As we expected, a small-world structure is no... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Publishing

26 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 26

BrownellHarvard Business School Case 813-068 This case describes a new venture attempting to bring early-stage entrepreneurial financing to Finland and other Nordic countries. Entrepreneurship is taking off in Finland, an area that historically has had little venture... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Bally Total Fitness (B): The Fall, 2005–2016

Hakluyt: From Corporate Intelligence to Trusted Advisors

New at the Helm: A Talk with HBS Dean Light

The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy

First Look: April 21, 2009

Report From Egypt: Studying Global Influences

Fixing the Marketing-CEO Disconnect

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Strategy for Small Fish

The Business of Biotech

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January 12, 2016

November 15, 2016

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Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement

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Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors

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