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- 01 Sep 2017
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The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
acquired by Amazon for nearly $1 billion. The acquisition was viewed with amazement by those unfamiliar with the young and rapidly growing sector. But a year later esports achieved a milestone traditional US sports fans could understand....
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- 01 Mar 2019
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The One That Got Away
companies seemed really intriguing, but we had a hard time looking past the current portfolio of challenged companies to see that there might be some big winners in these particular sectors. Data Domain went on to an IPO and then an View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
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Balanced Equation
9/11, Jeff Immelt had already built an impressive nineteen-year career at GE in its plastics, appliance, and medical systems divisions. With revenues in 2007 of $173 billion and more than 300,000 global employees, GE has seen significant change under Immelt, including...
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- 02 Oct 2015
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The ‘F’ Word
I started a de novo bank in Grand Rapids in 1987 called the Grand Bank; its success led to an acquisition 15 years later. Alexander Graham Bell once said, “When one door closes, another opens.” Although it does not necessarily open...
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- 01 Dec 2020
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New News
going through the process of pricing discovery over time and optimizing for the best LTV to CAC [customer lifetime value to customer acquisition cost] ratio, which brings you to questions of scale. As of yesterday, we have over 8,000...
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- 01 Feb 1997
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Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
topics including financing new ventures, deal structuring, valuation, initial public offerings, leveraged buyouts, and financial distress. "Entrepreneurial Finance looks at the acquisition and deployment of resources at each stage of the...
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- 01 Mar 2011
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Making Their Way
Chirchirillo was able to establish a foothold in China. That import model, however, was only intended to be an interim strategy to build a global capability, and in 2008, Chirchirillo purchased a precision metal-stamping company in McHenry, Illinois. “I view that View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
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Fair Trade
developed high-volume brands in its other consumer products, became one of the most important examples of this strategy .P&G’s acquisitions of Cover Girl and Max Factor had given the company a portfolio of beauty brands beyond toiletries...
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- 08 Jun 2018
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My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
wonderful 25-year career. The firm had been founded by three HBS graduates. At the time it had fewer than 20 people. When I joined I was the 25th. And the long story short is, I worked there for 25 years. Today that core, through many, many, many mergers and View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
becoming CEO of Slim Jim manufacturer GoodMark Foods, this book shares the stories and lessons learned of an ordinary man who achieved extraordinary success by believing in himself. Despite nearly losing his job at General Mills several times, he persevered. How he...
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- 01 Jun 2006
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India Arrives
director Nadir Godrej (MBA ’76), who oversees business divisions in the areas of chemicals, foods, and medical diagnostics. More such acquisitions will take place in the future, he believes, as Godrej expands its worldwide distribution...
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Julia Hanna
- 19 May 2022
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Leading to Salvation
president and CFO of Medtronic, overseeing a number of acquisitions and sales at the medical device company and broadening its reach to include a more global investor base. In this special edition of Skydeck honoring recipients of the...
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- 01 Jun 1996
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Class Acts
« Back to the top of the page The Midas Touch — Tarrus L. Richardson by Betsy McNair In 1993, at the age of 23, Tarrus Richardson left Salomon Brothers' financial analyst program (where he worked in the firm's Mergers and Acquisitions...
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- 01 Oct 1996
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Lasting Impressions
became executive vice president of Bund Capital, a corporate acquisition firm started by her husband in 1985. "We raise private funds in blind pools and acquire middle-market companies primarily in the building materials and automotive...
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Deborah E. Blagg