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- January 2017
- Case
Bayer AG: Bidding to Win Merck's OTC Business
By: Benjamin C. Esty, Marc Baaij and Arjen Mulder
Shortly after submitting their best and final offer to acquire Merck's Consumer Care Division (a collection of "over-the-counter" (OTC) products with sales totaling $2 billion), the Bayer M&A team was given a chance to revise their bid because another potential...
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Keywords:
Acquisition;
Bidding Strategy;
Valuing Synergies;
Negotiations;
Corporate Strategy;
Business Unit Strategy;
Bidding Process;
Discounted Cash Flow;
Cross-border M&A;
Tax Shields;
Valuation;
Competitive Strategy;
Auctions;
Bids and Bidding;
Germany;
United States;
United Kingdom
Esty, Benjamin C., Marc Baaij, and Arjen Mulder. "Bayer AG: Bidding to Win Merck's OTC Business." Harvard Business School Case 217-021, January 2017.
- Research Summary
Building Small Business Utopia: How Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Can Increase Small Business Success
By: Karen Mills
Small business lending has remained unchanged for decades, laden with frictions and barriers that prevent many small businesses from accessing the capital they need to succeed. Financial technology, or “fintech,” promises to change this trajectory. In 2010, new fintech...
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- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Creating Value in Your Business Ecosystem
Wal-Mart's and Microsoft's dominance in modern business has been attributed to any number of factors, ranging from the vision and drive of their founders to the companies' aggressive competitive practices. But the performance of these two...
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by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
- January 2006 (Revised December 2006)
- Case
Wal-Mart's Business Environment
In 2004, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. proposed to build a new supercenter in Inglewood, a low-income community near Los Angeles. The proposal was a part of Wal-Mart's strategy to bring its supercenter format to California. Introduced in the late 1980s, supercenters added a...
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Goals and Objectives;
Expansion;
Market Entry and Exit;
Corporate Strategy;
Labor Unions;
Conflict and Resolution;
Retail Industry;
Los Angeles
Oberholzer-Gee, Felix. "Wal-Mart's Business Environment." Harvard Business School Case 706-453, January 2006. (Revised December 2006.)
- October 2016 (Revised April 2018)
- Case
JCPenney: Back in Business
By: Elie Ofek, K. Shelette Stewart and Christine Snively
In 2016, JCPenney was in the midst of a multi-year turnaround after coming dangerously close to bankruptcy. Under CEO Marvin Ellison, the company had identified three strategic objectives—a focus on omnichannel, private label goods, and increasing revenue per...
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Keywords:
Retail;
Customer Management;
Omnichannel;
Turnarounds;
Private Label;
Promotions;
Marketing Strategy;
Brands and Branding;
Customer Relationship Management;
Goals and Objectives;
Competition;
Retail Industry;
United States
Ofek, Elie, K. Shelette Stewart, and Christine Snively. "JCPenney: Back in Business." Harvard Business School Case 517-037, October 2016. (Revised April 2018.)
- 26 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Strategic Way to Go to Market
Business School marketing professor V. Kasturi "Kash" Rangan in his new book, Transforming Your Go-to-Market Strategy. The auto industry, he says, is a stark example of why go-to-market strategies...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- September 1992
- Case
Star Cablevision Group (A): Harvesting in a Bull Market
First case in a series of six cases that follow the experience of a cable television company as it adjusts to the rapid rise and precipitous decline of the stock market in the late 1980s. In this case Don Jones, the company's founder and owner, sees the rise in public...
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Keywords:
Behavioral Finance;
Financial Markets;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Business Startups;
Restructuring;
Corporate Strategy;
SWOT Analysis;
Wealth;
Business Cycles;
Entertainment and Recreation Industry
Sahlman, William A. "Star Cablevision Group (A): Harvesting in a Bull Market." Harvard Business School Case 293-036, September 1992.
- 2010
- Chapter
Business Groups in Historical Perspectives
By: Geoffrey Jones and Asli M. Colpan
Business groups-collections of legally independent firms interconnected by multiple economic and social linkages that exhibit widely diversified product portfolios-are viewed as the prototypical large-enterprise form in contemporary emerging economies. By exploring the...
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Keywords:
Business History;
Management Skills;
Emerging Markets;
Alliances;
Groups and Teams;
Competitive Advantage;
Great Britain
Jones, Geoffrey, and Asli M. Colpan. "Business Groups in Historical Perspectives." Chap. 3 in The Oxford Handbook of Business Groups, edited by Asli M. Colpan, Takashi Hikino, and James R. Lincoln. Oxford Handbooks in Business and Management. Oxford University Press, 2010.
- 2011
- Working Paper
Business Model Innovation and Competitive Imitation: The Case of Sponsor-Based Business Models
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Feng Zhu
We study sponsor-based business model innovations where a firm monetizes its product through sponsors rather than setting prices to its customer base. We analyze strategic interactions between an innovative entrant and an incumbent where the incumbent may imitate the...
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Keywords:
Business Model;
Innovation and Invention;
Market Entry and Exit;
Competitive Strategy;
Competitive Advantage;
Value
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Feng Zhu. "Business Model Innovation and Competitive Imitation: The Case of Sponsor-Based Business Models." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-003, July 2010. (Revised September 2011.)
- 05 Jul 2006
- Working Paper Summaries
Deep Links: Business School Students’ Perceptions of the Role of Law and Ethics in Business
- 09 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Business Leaders Can Strengthen American Schools
Business has long recognized the connection between an effective school system and a qualified workforce—by some estimates, the private sector invests $4 billion annually in efforts intended to improve public education. So why isn't that...
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- April 2017
- Teaching Note
DoubleDutch
By: Frank Cespedes
This Teaching Note accompanies HBS No. 815-044 “DoubleDutch” in which the co-founders of the event management start-up, DoubleDutch, have to make a significant decision about their young company's sales function. The teaching note covers: Opportunity analysis,...
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- 01 Aug 2018
- What Do You Think?
Are Free Trade and Free Markets Quaint Ideas From the Past?
improved job training and relocation incentives for workers, he sees a future of continued market expansion, business profitability, greater social equality, and the increased social stability that this can...
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by James Heskett
- January 2017
- Supplement
Bayer AG: Bidding to Win Merck's OTC Business
By: Benjamin C. Esty, Marc Baaij and Arjen Mulder
- 06 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Consumers Blame Business for Global Health Problems. Can Business Become the Solution?
Every public health crisis—whether it’s the availability of highly addictive opioids or junk food marketing to children—prompts consumers to question how far companies will go for profit. It’s not an unwarranted concern. After all, cigarette makers once used...
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- 2008
- Book
Climate Change: What's Your Business Strategy?
By: Andrew J. Hoffman and John G. Woody
Climate change is one of the most pressing challenges facing the world today. And increasingly, it's become a crucial business issue. How will you and your company respond?
In Climate Change: What's Your Business Strategy? Andrew Hoffman and John... View Details
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Hoffman, Andrew J., and John G. Woody. Climate Change: What's Your Business Strategy? Harvard Business Press, 2008. (Chinese Edition: 必看!绿色战略中的商机, China Machine Press; Danish Edition: Klimaforandring - Hvad er din forretningsstrategi?, Gyldendal, 2009; Portuguese Edition: Mudanças Climáticas: Desafios e Oportunidades Empresariais, Elsevier and Alterações Climáticas, Actual Editoras.)
- Teaching Interest
Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies (Online Course)
By: Tarun Khanna
This business and management course takes an inter-disciplinary approach to understanding and solving complex social problems. You will learn about prior attempts to address these problems, identify points of opportunity for smart entrepreneurial efforts, and... View Details
- 19 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Handicapping the Best Countries for Business
important and what are the keys to analyzing and understanding a country's near-term direction? A: Any business person is interested only in the future—in where markets and countries are heading. The only...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- May 1982
- Article
Assessing Competition in the Market for Corporate Acquisitions
By: R. S. Ruback
Ruback, R. S. "Assessing Competition in the Market for Corporate Acquisitions." Seminar on the Analysis of Security Prices, Proceedings 27, no. 1 (May 1982): 251–270.
- 23 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
8 Strategies to Sustain Business Innovation
Sooner or later, every company runs into challenges that force them to make tough trade-offs during the innovation process. Harvard Business School associate professor Rory McDonald calls these moments “tensions.” The streaming service...
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by Lane Lambert