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- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
Grupo Beta San Miguel In November 2013, Dr. Jose Pinto, head of Grupo Beta San Miguel (BSM), Mexico's largest private sugar producer, is weighing the future prospects of the Mexican sugar industry as he considers whether BSM should bid on...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
Southeastern and Icahn oppose the deal, the specifics of both the Dell/Silver Lake bid and of Southeastern's/Icahn's leveraged recapitalization proposals, and the events that took place. Purchase this case:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
jointly develops an offshore tract-performs relative to a solo firm. I employ a regression discontinuity strategy based on bids in first-price sealed-bid auctions for the rights to develop leases. By focusing on leases where one...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 4
This case explores the opportunity to purchase the condominium management business of a distressed real estate developer by Advantage Partners, a leading Japanese private equity firm. The case explores investment structuring, bidding...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
pay phones in Tanzania - and recently won a bid to become Ghana's Second National Operator. A Liberian national who spent much of her childhood in English boarding schools, Maddy holds foreign service and economics degrees from Georgetown...
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- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
a bid to save the planet. The narrative then reaches back to each person’s childhood and shows the individual growing—step by step—into the person he or she will ultimately become. Significantly, as we follow each leader’s...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/411105-PDF-ENG Dharavi: Developing Asia's Largest Slum (B) Lakshmi Iyer and John D. MacomberHarvard Business School Supplement 711-107 In July 2009, as investors prepared to submit financial bids...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
yet-to-be-constructed plant 40 miles from Caen. Viana’s bid to produce luxury madeleines in a new, nearby location with 16 of the original workers was the obvious favorite, but it required an estimated 2.8 million he had yet to secure....
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- 23 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 23
case:http://hbr.org/search/312025-PDF-ENG Fairstar Heavy Transport (A) Guhan Subramanian and Rhea GhoshHarvard Business School Case 911-036 In 2009, the small heavy marine transport company Fairstar entered into bidding on one of the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2007
Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707030 Lion Capital and the Blackstone Group: The Orangina Deal Harvard Business School Case 807-005 The managing partners of two private equity firms are hoping to forestall a third...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
hadn’t been put out to bid since 1991. A 2006 addendum—that no one on the school board, past or present, can recall signing, much less discussing—gave a local transportation company a 4 percent annual fuel surcharge that has cost...
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- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
exceptions-including major ones-may in fact arise. We focus on three historical cases in which special interests apparently gave way to the general interest in the policy making process: the enactment of Medicare in 1965, in which the powerful doctors lobby failed in...
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
that relied heavily on debt? Would Warburg Pincus Ventures be prepared to pay a price sufficient to win the bidding contest? Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=207125 Dressen (Abridged) (B)...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
their reliability, previous business experience, and bid amount. The duo then went about improving the business, which had three on-campus stores that offered laundry, dry cleaning, and alterations to the HBS community, ultimately...
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- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
The company also made a big push into the retail market, making sure it got shelf space in its bid to gain mass appeal. President Gerard Meyer (MBA 1988) sums up the pitch to major retailers: Here's your chance to get a piece of a $260...
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- 26 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018
process as well as attempting, in parallel, a strategic sale to create a competitive bidding process. Ak Gıda was cofounded in 1996 by the Ulker and Topbas families as a result of a joint vertical integration strategy: Ulker family,...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
New Learning at American Home Products
successful bid in 1988 of $3.18 billion for A. H. Robbins, a transaction that enlarged its OTC business, making it second in sales only to Johnson & Johnson. The purchase price included $2.5 billion to cover damages resulting from...
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- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities
standards were met. In 1972, the FCC also limited the franchise fees that municipalities could charge cable operators to three percent of revenue, and fixed the length of franchise agreements at fifteen years, reducing uncertainty for cable operators when View Details
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
sell the company. Six months have passed since Ligand began soliciting bidders, but no buyer has emerged. With the sale of the company appearing to have stalled, Third Point has to decide whether to restart the bidding process, hold onto...
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Martha Lagace
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
capitalists bid for the right to invest on those terms by proving that they can add value to BzzAgent, Inc. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807057 Corning: 156 Years of...
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