Publications

November 2006
Supplement

The Bollingers: Negotiating with Wal-Mart (B)

By: James K. Sebenius and Ellen Knebel

Keywords: Negotiation; Family Ownership

February 1998 (Revised July 2003)
Case

ICEDELIGHTS

Three second-year students at the Harvard Business School decide to buy a company. The case focuses on their thoughts about an entrepreneurial career, their search process, and the evaluation of an Icedelights (an ice cream/cafe) franchise. This is a rewritten version... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Franchise Ownership

July 2010
Teaching Note

Perfect Storm over Zurich Airport (TN) (A) & (B)

By: Michael L. Tushman and David Kiron

Teaching Note for 408023 and 408058. View Details

Keywords: State Ownership; Private Ownership; Crisis Management; Transformation; Air Transportation Industry; Switzerland

1991
Chapter

Eclipse of the Public Corporation

By: Michael C. Jensen

Keywords: Public Ownership

SSRN

November 2011 (Revised February 2012)
Case

Banco Ciudad (A): Who is the Owner?

By: Aldo Musacchio, Gustavo Herrero and Cintra Scott

Keywords: State Ownership; Banking Industry; Argentina

July 1985 (Revised February 1992)
Case

Workbench (B): Assessment of the Franchising Program

By: Walter J. Salmon

Keywords: Franchise Ownership

February 2015
Article

Corporate Investment and Stock Market Listing: A Puzzle?

By: John Asker, Joan Farre-Mensa and Alexander Ljungqvist

We investigate whether short-termism distorts the investment decisions of stock market listed firms. To do so, we compare the investment behavior of observably similar public and private firms using a new data source on private U.S. firms, assuming for identification... View Details

Keywords: Private Ownership; Public Ownership; Corporate Finance

SSRN

fall 1986
Article

Privatizing State-Owned Enterprises: Hopes and Realities

By: James E. Austin, Lawrence H. Wortzel and John F. Coburn

Keywords: State Ownership; Privatization; Business Ventures

October 1993
Case

Zen-Noh: ""I Love Gyu (Beef)""--New Challenges for the Beef Business

By: Ray A. Goldberg

Keywords: Agribusiness; Cooperative Ownership; Trade; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Japan

December 2013
Article

Leviathan as a Minority Shareholder: Firm-level Implications of State Equity Purchases

By: Carlos F. K. V. Inoue, Sergio G. Lazzarini and Aldo Musacchio

In many countries, firms face institutional voids that raise the costs of doing business and thwart entrepreneurial activity. We examine a particular mechanism to address those voids: minority state ownership. Due to their minority nature, such stakes are less affected... View Details

Keywords: Business Groups; Development Banks; State Capitalism; Performance; State Ownership; Brazil

July 1989 (Revised March 1992)
Case

Cooperative Company Friesland: A Cooperative Joint Venture in Condensed Milk

By: Ray A. Goldberg

Keywords: Joint Ventures; Cooperative Ownership; Food and Beverage Industry

November 1987 (Revised January 1988)
Case

Farmland Industries

By: Ray A. Goldberg

Keywords: Cooperative Ownership; Competitive Strategy; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry

August 2008 (Revised March 2010)
Case

Finland's S Group: Competing with a Cooperative Approach to Retail

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Tarun Khanna, Samuli Skurnik and Jordan Mitchell

The case looks at the two dominant Finnish retailers: S Group and Kesko. S Group is a customer-owned cooperative, which has a unique holding structure whereby 1.7 million residents (or 70 percent of Finnish households) own 22 regional cooperatives. In turn, the... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Cooperative Ownership; Public Ownership; Competitive Advantage; Retail Industry; Finland

06 Jan 2020
News

Home Grown

owners who were interested in creating a local ownership vehicle for retiring business owners. “Generally, the owners’ options are to try to succeed the ownership across another generation of family,” says... View Details

Keywords: Finance

December 2007 (Revised December 2008)
Case

China Netcom: Corporate Governance in China (A)

By: Regina M. Abrami, William C. Kirby, F. Warren McFarlan, Ning Xiangdong and Tracy Manty

With its dual listings on the Hong Kong stock market and New York Stock Exchange, state-owned enterprise, China Netcom was mandated to meet the listing requirements of these exchanges. From this initial step, China Netcom's Chairman, Zhang Chunjiang, began a program... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Governance; State Ownership; Public Ownership; Financial Markets; Capital Markets; Telecommunications Industry; China

2007
Working Paper

Testing Limits to Policy Reversal: Evidence from Indian Privatizations

By: Siddhartha G. Dastidar, Raymond Fisman and Tarun Khanna

We examine the effect of regime change on privatization using the 2004 election surprise in India. The pro-reform BJP was unexpectedly defeated by a less reformist coalition. Stock prices of government-controlled companies that had been slated for definite... View Details

Keywords: Political Elections; Privatization; State Ownership; Policy; India

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June 2001
Case

Privatization of Anatolia National Telekom, The: TAD Confidential Instructions

Anatolia National Telekom is a multiparty negotiation simulation patterned after the Turkish government's aborted attempt to privatize its state-owned telecommunications monopoly, Turk Telekom, in late 1997. Provides participants with an opportunity to identify and... View Details

Keywords: Negotiation Process; Emerging Markets; Privatization; State Ownership; Telecommunications Industry; Turkey

June 2001
Case

Privatization of Anatolia National Telekom, The: BOW Confidential Instructions

Anatolia National Telekom is a multiparty negotiation simulation patterned after the Turkish government's aborted attempt to privatize its state-owned telecommunications monopoly, Turk Telekom, in late 1997. Provides participants with an opportunity to identify and... View Details

Keywords: Negotiation Process; Emerging Markets; Privatization; State Ownership; Telecommunications Industry; Turkey