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  • 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
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  • October 2024
  • Case

Edizione

By: Cynthia A. Montgomery, Dante Roscini, Elena Corsi and Hugo Etchegoyhen
This case study examines the diversification and transformation of Edizione, the Benetton family's holding company originally established to reinvest dividends from the Benetton clothing brand. Edizione expanded significantly in the late 1990s and early 2000s,... View Details
Keywords: Leadership Style; Leading Change; Leadership Development; Family Business; Family Ownership; Communication Strategy; Crisis Management; Management Style; Change Management; Asset Management; Management Succession; Private Equity; Corporate Governance; Organizational Culture; Reputation; Public Opinion; Mergers and Acquisitions; Diversification; Expansion; Air Transportation Industry; Fashion Industry; Transportation Industry; Travel Industry; Italy; Europe
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  • June 2025
  • Case

TfL Pension Fund and the 2022 Gilt Market Crisis

By: Emil N. Siriwardane, Vincent Dessain, Emer Moloney and Carlota Moniz
On September 27, 2022, Padmesh Shukla, CIO of the Transport for London (TfL) Pension Fund, was keeping a careful eye on the turmoil in the U.K. sovereign bond (or gilt) market. When the new government announced the largest tax cuts the U.K. had seen in half a century,... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Macroeconomics; Assets; Asset Management; Borrowing and Debt; Corporate Finance; Capital Markets; Equity; Financial Liquidity; Financial Instruments; Financial Strategy; Interest Rates; Governing and Advisory Boards; Crisis Management; Resource Allocation; Investment; Financial Services Industry; United Kingdom; England; London; Europe
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  • 28 Jul 2015
  • First Look

First Look: July 28, 2015

5-year roadmap known as the "2015 EPS roadmap." The case is set in May 2014, just after IBM's annual investor briefing. Despite more than 10 years of strong financial performance, IBM reported relatively weak financial results in the first quarter of 2014.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 23 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 23

venture capital firms, offering to invest Rs 200 million in return for an equity stake in the company. His dream of transforming Getit from a regional print company into a digital company with broad geographical reach was within grasp.... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 24 Apr 2012
  • First Look

First Look: April 24

note:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/612084-PDF-ENG Negotiating Equity Splits at UpDown Noam Wasserman and Deepak MalhotraHarvard Business School HBSP Online Case Product 812-701 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Purchase... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 14 Dec 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance

have to pay attention to the fact that there are real differences in the ecosystems of each sector. Ebrahim: Mario raises a crucial distinction. In the for-profit world, we tend to see individual firms as the central unit of analysis. Firms make profit, and investors... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 10 Feb 2015
  • First Look

First Look: February 10

barred sponsors from soliciting small investors for large commercial real estate. However, the JOBS Act of 2013 loosened U.S. restrictions on equity crowdfunding. Nino believes that crowdfunding will democratize real estate development by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Aug 2014
  • Op-Ed

Why Small-Business Lending Is Not Recovering

Assessing creditworthiness of small businesses can be difficult due to information asymmetry. Little, if any, public information exists about the performance of most small businesses because they rarely issue publicly traded equity or... View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills; Banking; Financial Services
  • February 2011
  • Teaching Note

Citigroup's Exchange Offer (TN)

By: Robin Greenwood
Teaching Note for 210009. View Details
Keywords: Equity; Government and Politics; Stocks; Price; Capital; Banks and Banking; Performance Evaluation; Risk and Uncertainty; Capital Markets; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; United States
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  • August 2005
  • Background Note

Dual Class Share Companies

By: Samuel L. Hayes III, Lynn S. Paine and Christopher Bruner
Provides a brief historical overview of dual class share companies in the United States, focusing on the New York Stock Exchange's evolving position on dual class structures since the 1920s, the impact of hostile takeovers on their use since the 1980s, and recent... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Debates; Capital Structure; Equity; Business History; Law; Organizational Structure; Business and Shareholder Relations; Perspective; Europe; United States
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  • 05 Feb 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019

coders display pervasive stereotypes, associating warmth with women and competence and negativity with men. We also find that warmer participants, particularly warmer women, are under-rewarded by their groups. Equity Concerns Are Narrowly... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 02 Feb 2016
  • First Look

February 2, 2016

international equity markets, with a highly significant average slope coefficient of 1.05. In sharp contrast, standard factor-model-based proxies fail to exhibit predictive power internationally. We show analytically and empirically that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Jun 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13

1980s by her physician parents, and although operating a healthcare company in Nigeria offered challenges particularly in human resources and infrastructure, by 2011, it had expanded to include three hospital and clinic sites and a large insurance company. The company... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Mar 2013
  • Research & Ideas

How Chapter 11 Saved the US Economy

and 2009, $1.8 trillion worth of public company assets entered Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection— almost 20 times more than during the prior two years." A significant portion of the private equity industry, he says, was "widely... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Financial Services
  • 21 May 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Fixing the Marketing-CEO Disconnect

decisions, but no one is singularly accountable for the results. Second, responsibility for brand equity still resides in the marketing function, yet brand equity has never been more volatile and important.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jul 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 17, 2018

assessment and valuation technique used in the private equity industry. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/218106-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 718-484 Institutionalized Entrepreneurship: Flagship Pioneering No... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 15 Nov 2017
  • Research & Ideas

How Does a Social Startup Decide to Commercialize? It May Depend on the Founder's Gender

communities—across a host of dimensions—are essential to increasing global equity and sustainability,” Mueller continues. “We believe that increased access and exposure to other leaders and models, paired with resources including quality... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 24 Feb 2015
  • First Look

First Look: February 24

Prosperity In 2014, Khuram Mir, CEO of HN Agri Serve, an innovative apple orchard company in the Kashmir region of Northern India, wonders about the best growth strategy for his company. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/515006-PDF-ENG... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Jul 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Is a Gap in Small-Business Credit Holding Back the American Economy?

access to public institutional debt and equity capital markets and the uncertainty of small business profits makes retained earnings a necessarily less stable source of capital. About 48 percent of business owners report a major bank as... View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills; Manufacturing

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