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  • 01 Oct 1999
  • News

Banking on Success

spent four years in London as cohead of the firm's European operations before resigning in 1996 to found Compass Partners International, a privately held View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
  • 23 May 2018
  • Research & Ideas

How to Know If Your Neighborhood Is Being Gentrified

that are widely seen as measures of gentrification are accompanied by growth in the number of businesses in every category we examined.” Creating better public policy... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • Web

Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

for "Patent Trolls: Evidence from Targeted Firms” (December 2019) with Lauren Cohen and Umit Gurun. Josh Lerner : Winner of the 2022 Doriot Award for the Best Private Equity Research Paper for “Investing... View Details
  • 24 Feb 2020
  • Research & Ideas

The Hidden Vulnerabilities of Open Source Software

numerous pieces of critical infrastructure. But without appropriate investment and maintenance, that widespread adoption has the potential to become a liability. A preliminary study released February 18, which we directed alongside the... View Details
Keywords: by Frank Nagle and Jenny Hoffman; Computer
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Business Finance Course Online | HBS Online

learning how to maximize investment portfolio value with alternative investments, including private equity and real estate. 5 weeks, 6–7 hrs/week Pay by August 7 $1,850... View Details
  • 26 Jun 2012
  • First Look

First Look: June 26

by a public health organization are randomly allocated to four groups. Agents in the control group receive a standard volunteer contract often offered for this type of task, whereas agents View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • November 2005 (Revised December 2016)
  • Case

Bally Total Fitness (A): The Rise, 1962–2004

By: John R. Wells, Elizabeth A. Raabe and Gabriel Ellsworth
From a single, modest club in 1962, Bally Total Fitness had grown to become—in management’s words—the “largest and only nationwide commercial operator of fitness centers” in the United States in 2004. Bally had faced its share of challenges, but the last couple of... View Details
Keywords: Bally Total Fitness; Fitness; Gyms; Health Clubs; Chain; Securities And Exchange Commission; Paul Toback; Weight Loss; Exercise; Contracts; Personal Training; Retention; Accounting; Accounting Audits; Accrual Accounting; Finance; Advertising; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; For-Profit Firms; Customers; Customer Satisfaction; Public Equity; Financing and Loans; Revenue; Revenue Recognition; Geographic Scope; Multinational Firms and Management; Health; Nutrition; Business History; Lawsuits and Litigation; Management; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development Strategy; Marketing; Operations; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Public Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business Strategy; Competition; Corporate Strategy; Expansion; Segmentation; Trends; Cost Management; Profit; Growth and Development; Leadership Style; Five Forces Framework; Private Ownership; Opportunities; Motivation and Incentives; Competitive Strategy; Health Industry; United States; Illinois; Chicago
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Wells, John R., Elizabeth A. Raabe, and Gabriel Ellsworth. "Bally Total Fitness (A): The Rise, 1962–2004." Harvard Business School Case 706-450, November 2005. (Revised December 2016.)
  • 27 Apr 2021
  • Research & Ideas

IPO or M&A? How Venture Capital Shapes a Startup's Future

startup’s vision or step back altogether after a larger company takes possession. In 144 of these transactions, the deal effectively closed a failing business. Another 2.9 percent of the companies examined, or 317 ventures, went View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • Web

Nonprofit Strategy & Governance | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

of Art Trading private equity for the arts, Jason Price is incubating a world-class art center in New Haven, Connecticut—and developing an impact model fo... Re: Jason Price... View Details
  • 29 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018

School Case 218-094 Celgene In February 2011, Adam Koppel, a managing director at Brookside Capital, the public equity arm of Bain Capital, must decide whether to increase or... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 14 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: February 14

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52096 2016 Financial Market History: Reflections on the Past for Investors Today The Origins of High-Tech Venture Investing in America By: Nicholas, Tom... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Loeb House | About

provided leadership to a broad array of public and private institutions. In the public realm, he was appointed US ambassador to Denmark by... View Details
  • Web

Kristin W. Mugford | About

and the Apgar Award for Innovation in Teaching. Kristin retired in 2013 as a Managing Director and partner at Bain Capital, one of the world's leading alternative investment... View Details
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Philanthropy - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

rising stock markets. As a nation, then, we make a substantial investment in foundation philanthropy that goes well beyond the original gifts of private donors. We should... View Details
  • 02 Oct 2017
  • What Do You Think?

Do Bitcoin and Digital Currency Have a Future?

persuade staff members that hedging both securities and commodities contracts was an acceptable investment strategy and not mere speculation. Eventually, we succeeded in registering with the SEC and 37 US... View Details
Keywords: by James L. Heskett; Financial Services
  • 21 Feb 2005
  • Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

professionalism is the idea that, even when serving private clients, professionals are providing a public good. In economics, the provision of View Details
Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice
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Baker Library / Bloomberg Center | About

philanthropist, and president of the First National Bank of New York, Baker was an extraordinary business leader. At the age of 23, he invested $3,000 to become an original shareholder in the First National... View Details
  • 23 Mar 2022
  • Blog Post

Learning Curve: The Brother-and-Sister Team Behind a New Edtech Nonprofit

leveraging existing technology and infrastructure to enhance the quality of early childhood education for disadvantaged kids. And while the state-run preschools and primary schools that serve this population may suffer in comparison with... View Details
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Your Social Entrepreneurship checklist | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

students. HealthLab: A new University-wide accelerator for student ventures, HealthLab brings together students and postdocs from across the Harvard ecosystem to solve challenges in public and planetary... View Details
  • 12 Mar 2021
  • News

My Favorite Case

lesson is as true in my personal life as it is in my professional work. —Roy Hitchings (MBA 1974) Howard Head took his company public and wanted to largely run it like it was... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
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