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  • 01 Jun 2007
  • News

Letters

being active participants. All forms of illicit financial flows are assisted by a global structure that comprises 72 tax havens, secrecy jurisdictions, millions of disguised corporations, anonymous trust accounts, fake charitable... View Details
  • Web

Institute Associates - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Presidency rotation. Her credits include two books and over 100 articles, case studies, notes and other published material on competitive advantage, industry evolution, and financial performance. McGahan’s current research emphasizes... View Details
  • 31 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 31, 2009

the "opportunistic behavior" hypothesis, private equity firms have higher quality accruals and a lower propensity to manage income than public equity firms. We further find that public equity firms report more conservatively, in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • November 2004 (Revised September 2019)
  • Background Note

The U.S. Health Club Industry in 2004

By: John R. Wells, Gabriel Ellsworth and Benjamin Weinstock
In 2004, the $16.8 billion U.S. health club industry continued its strong record of growth. There were almost 27,000 health clubs in the United States, up from 6,700 two decades earlier, and these clubs claimed 41 million members, over 14% of the U.S. population.... View Details
Keywords: Health Clubs; Fitness; Gyms; Chain; Weight Loss; Obesity; Exercise; Personal Training; Bally Total Fitness; 24 Hour Fitness; YMCA; Gold's Gym; Curves; Franchise; Franchising; Subscription; Promotional Sales; Promotions; Fixed Costs; Body; Accrual Accounting; Revenue Recognition; Buildings and Facilities; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; For-Profit Firms; Trends; Customers; Demographics; Age; Income; Private Equity; Financing and Loans; Profit; Revenue; Geographic Scope; Multinational Firms and Management; Health; Nutrition; Business History; Employees; Retention; Human Capital; Working Conditions; Contracts; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development Strategy; Markets; Demand and Consumers; Supply and Industry; Industry Growth; Industry Structures; Operations; Service Operations; Franchise Ownership; Private Ownership; Public Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Sales; Salesforce Management; Situation or Environment; Opportunities; Nonprofit Organizations; Welfare; Sports; Strategy; Business Strategy; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Consolidation; Corporate Strategy; Customization and Personalization; Expansion; Segmentation; Hardware; Health Industry; United States
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  • 04 Mar 2014
  • First Look

First Look: March 4

financial "template" that could sustain the festival into the future? Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/jaipur-literature-festival-beyond-the-festival-template/an/712401-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 114-046 The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Sep 2024
  • HBS Case

McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace

McMuffin—as well as what has been called one of the most famous cross-sells of all time: “Would you like fries with that?” Yet by 2015, McDonald’s found itself in what reporters called the worst slump in a decade, driven by rising... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman; Food & Beverage
  • 01 Dec 2015
  • News

Golden State of Mind

about hitching their wagon to DFJ. But there’s strategic value to standing in a fountain for a company report photo shoot for the simple fact that it gets you noticed in a very crowded, loud world. “You’ve got to get above the noise... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • 08 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 8, 2019

Standardized metrics of cath lab efficiency are proposed, which can be used in public reports on this topic moving forward. Attention is paid to understanding balance sheets to track the financial health of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 25 Oct 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Chasing Stars: Why the Mighty Red Sox Struck Out

following year. In Chasing Stars, Groysberg explains the importance of having an integration strategy, whether a star is joining a new baseball team or a new team of financial analysts. "Even stars need time to adjust to new... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Sports; Banking
  • 24 Mar 2021
  • News

Clubs Reaffirm Equity in Community Partners Work; Alumni Angels Invest in Member Education

program’s 2020 annual report sums it up best: “Many nonprofits serve minorities in their communities, and the Black Lives Matter movement galvanized a fresh look at who and how they serve clients who need help. We at Community Partners... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 14 Apr 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Pay-for-Performance Doesn’t Always Pay Off

pay-for-performance is an opportunity to make it more fair. They think they can outperform whatever pay they get; they usually assume they will benefit in terms of higher pay. In his working paper co-authored with Mark D. Cannon of Vanderbilt University, Promise and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jun 2016
  • News

How Do We Win the Cyberwar?

has used industry-specific versions of these systems—focused on everything from financial services to real estate—to share threat data for a few years now, spreading information about new phishing campaigns or ongoing wire transfer fraud... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
  • 25 Mar 2014
  • First Look

First Look: March 25

the investor's and the investee's countries, affects the asset allocation decisions of global mutual funds. We find that investors tend to underweight investees with greater accounting distance. Using the mandatory adoption of International View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency

investors and he’s the “flag,” the name. Given that case, that would inform a world view that has a high sensitivity to perceptions in what we call in real estate “the real economy.” Are the rooms full, and in which locations? Hotel people have a high sensitivity to... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
  • Web

Executive Education Courses - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

responsible for overseeing care delivery Financial executives who direct cost management for health care delivery organizations HR executives from large organizations who manage health care for employees, collaborate with health care... View Details
  • 28 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 28, 2007

Harvard Business School Case 107-035 Obadiah Vineyard's owners create financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) to help them obtain funding to plant more acreage. The owners grapple with... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Jun 2013
  • Research & Ideas

How Numbers Talk to People

deep statistical analysis, just good data and reporting approaches. It is often encountered in online businesses, where customer clickstreams provide plenty of data-often too much-for analysis. One expert practitioner of the CSI story... View Details
  • 19 Dec 2012
  • Research & Ideas

How to be Extremely Productive

schedule to be productive. I wanted to discuss skills that have been critical in my own career. Communication is one—reading, writing, and speaking. Another is how you operate within your organization and deal with both those above you and those who View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
  • 24 Aug 2009
  • Research & Ideas

SuperCorp: Values as Guidance System

principles of this sort not only speak to high standards of conduct but also stretch the enterprise beyond its own formal boundaries to include the extended family of customers, suppliers, distributors, business partners, financial... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
  • 19 Sep 2006
  • First Look

First Look: September 19, 2006

the properties of the empirical distributions typically employed in prior conservatism studies result in these biases producing evidence consistent with conservatism, even when using data series devoid of asymmetric timeliness in reported... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne