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- October 2016
- Supplement
24 Hour Fitness (B): Ownership Changes, 2005–2016
By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
In 2016, 24 Hour Fitness was the number-two fitness chain in the United States, generating revenues of $1.4 billion from 441 clubs serving 3.8 million members. Based in San Ramon, California, 24 Hour Fitness operated clubs in 13 states. Having grown rapidly to become... View Details
Keywords: Advertising; Advertising Campaigns; Buildings and Facilities; Acquisition; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Business Organization; For-Profit Firms; Customers; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Satisfaction; Age; Training; Private Equity; Financing and Loans; Price; Profit; Revenue; Geographic Location; Geographic Scope; Health; Nutrition; Business History; Human Resources; Employees; Employee Relationship Management; Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Journals and Magazines; Human Capital; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Teams; Marketing; Brands and Branding; Marketing Channels; Marketing Communications; Marketing Strategy; Social Marketing; Demand and Consumers; Market Entry and Exit; Media; Organizational Design; Private Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Groups and Teams; Sales; Salesforce Management; Situation or Environment; Welfare or Wellbeing; Sports; Strategy; Business Strategy; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Corporate Strategy; Expansion; Segmentation; Information Technology; Internet; Mobile Technology; Online Technology; Software; Web Sites; Value; Valuation; Health Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; United States; California; San Francisco
Wells, John R., and Gabriel Ellsworth. "24 Hour Fitness (B): Ownership Changes, 2005–2016." Harvard Business School Supplement 717-423, October 2016.
- 21 Dec 2018
- News
Bridging the Gap
how business school used to take you straight out of college. Now, with programs like Two Plus Two, and the national trend that shows students are better prepared when they’ve had experience working in the world, in order to form the... View Details
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
humor, however, is a no-nonsense approach to business performance that stems from Fisher’s upbringing as the daughter and granddaughter of rural central Pennsylvania entrepreneurs who taught her that great ideas can be backed with the... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
finally liquidated at the end of 2013, it employed a few dozen people. Now some of those workers, mostly women in their 50s, were occupying the factory around the clock in eight-hour shifts to prevent the sale of the equipment and to somehow get back to the View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
The Road Less Traveled
Most cars in the United States weigh more than 4,000 pounds, and new models are trending larger, even in countries where people drive less. And the larger the vehicle, the more fuel required to power it, which means more greenhouse-gas emissions that contribute to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Lesson Plans
companies, requiring the same critical, honest thinking about leadership development. Improving the cross-fertilization between business and education would help. It'd be great to have a kind of CEO-in-residence be part of the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Winning Season
and office space. “It’s our lake view,” jokes DeWitt’s eldest son, William III (MBA ’95), the Cardinals’ senior vice president of business development. “But we won’t have it for long.” He adds that an agreement in principle for the... View Details
- 03 Oct 2018
- What Do You Think?
How Should Managers Deal with the Challenges of Building an Inclusive Workplace?
This curiosity needs to start with our existing team. Who is in our team and how can we map their skills to see the gaps? Then how can we approach the process of finding new people with a view of filling these gaps ?” NickC addressed the issue of View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 04 May 2007
- What Do You Think?
How Do Managers Think?
"Interesting to make analogies, but the basics of medical decision making are grounded in scientific fact whereas there is no unified body of knowledge based on science for the manager." As Todd Rhoad put it, " doctors are View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- Web
Navigating Your Worth: AI, Negotiations, and the Nature of Expertise - Course Catalog
rights to your codified labor and how you should navigate employment contracts or other business agreements over your direct labor and any data byproduct that can be used to train AI models. We will also... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
life as a trained assassin, working directly for the South African government to take down prominent political players when requested to maintain national security and apparent order. Join the Dots by Patrick Moffett (AMP 111) Vanguard... View Details
- 04 Jun 2025
- News
Slice of Life
create an in-demand product. But finding that passion took years. Most of them spent working jobs that while rewarding in their own way, just didn't give him a spark. That all changed on a fateful business trip to Strasbourg, France. And... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
global in its scope and insisted on ethical business practices—a rare initiative in a sector marred by corruption. In 2009, when the company was acquired by Schneider Electric, Hattangady turned her attention to impact investing and... View Details
- 05 Aug 2015
- What Do You Think?
What Happened to the ‘Innovation, Disruption, Technology’ Dividend?
even brighter future. Others predict that "disruption," perhaps the most overworked term in business English today, will foster competition, make long-term strategic planning a questionable management activity, and bring new... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
William H. Donaldson, MBA 1958
News. And as soon as he graduated in 1953, he joined the U.S. Marine Corps and became an officer. Fast forward to 1959. Just out of Harvard Business School, Donaldson, 28, was rooming with Dan Lufkin (MBA ’57) in New York and working in... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Hansjörg Wyss, MBA 1965
Chairman, Synthes, Inc. Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EDUCATION Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, 1959 M.S., Civil & Structural Engineering LIFELONG LESSON FROM HBS "I learned so much in C. Roland Christensen's View Details
- 15 Feb 2023
- News
Grand Ambitions in the Great Plains
Skydeck mini-series on carbon capture. In the first episode, we explored the scope of the problem—and the potential size of the business opportunity at this moment. If you haven't listened to that episode yet, go back and check it out. It... View Details
- 19 Jan 2021
- Blog Post
2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Marc Duranteau (MBA 2019)
background offered me one of the best training programs in engineering, I knew I would need to add an MBA to my courses to be a leader in the aerospace industry. The French education system separates the management and View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2020
When Johnson was born, social norms and her government-issued birth certificate said she was Negro, nullifying her mother’s white blood in her identity. Later, as a Harvard-educated business executive feeling too far from her black roots,... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
the XXVIth Olympiad, opening next month in Atlanta. On an overcast morning in Atlanta, as the airport rapid transit train glides past auto-body shops and rain-swept intersections toward downtown, a passenger can glimpse in the distance a... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons