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- 15 Dec 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Surprisingly Successful Marriages of Multinationals and Social Brands
to managers and stimulating reflection among scholars, a new working paper by HBS professors James E. Austin and Herman B. "Dutch" Leonard looks at how and why such acquisitions occur and how to manage the new combinations most...
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- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
and acquisitions are back - with a vengeance - in the 1990s. Across the global business landscape, some $1 trillion in M&A; deals were completed last year. That figure includes one hundred transactions of $1 billion or more in the United...
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Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Starting Now — Bruce Wasserstein (MBA 1971)
$13-billion acquisition of Kraft Inc. and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Company's $25-billion purchase of RJR Nabisco. Wasserstein's success has come as a surprise to no one. The son of a well-to-do ribbon manufacturer, as a child he was...
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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Hope for Reform Dims
led to Merrill’s acquisition by Bank of America,” he recalled. Three weeks after the deal closed on January 1, 2009, Thain was forced to resign as controversy swirled around the generous terms of the $50 billion deal and $3.6 billion in...
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- 06 Dec 2017
- News
Puzzle Master
Photo via Black Enterprise Photo via Black Enterprise When kitchen goods and home furnishings retailer Williams-Sonoma announced its acquisition of Outward, Inc.—a leading 3-D imaging and augmented reality platform—the $112 million deal...
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- 16 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed?
Editor's note: Even with recent disclosures about out-of-control spending on corporate perks and government agency parties, the US military is frequently held up as the exemplar of organizational largesse run wild. In the new book Defense View Details
Richard L. Gelb
Gelb orchestrated Bristol-Myers' successful acquisition of Squibb creating the second largest pharmaceutical company in the world. In diversifying Bristol-Myers from a personal care company to pharmaceutical giant, Gelb achieved stellar...
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Healthcare
Hamish Maxwell
Maxwell presided over the major diversification of Philip Morris through the acquisitions of Kraft and General Foods. In so doing, Maxwell created the largest consumer goods company in the world and significantly lessened Philip Morris’...
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Food & Tobacco
J. Larry Nichols
Nichols and his father formed Devon Energy in 1971 to tap into the expanding need for new oil and energy sources. Through a series of acquisitions and investments, the business grew to be the fourth largest pure oil and gas producer in...
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Utilities & Energy
- Fast Answer
Bankruptcy asset sales
Results. LSEG Workspace: Click on the Search Tools tab and select M&A. In the Quick Filters section, type Acquisition Techniques into the Add Filters text box, and select Bankruptcy Acquisition from the...
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- 23 Apr 2014
- News
A corporate leader’s legacy in India
simple one—that I have always stood up for what I consider to be the right thing,” says Tata, who served as chairman of the Tata Group from 1991 until his retirement in 2012. The Mumbai-based firm now operates in 80 countries and comprises more than 100 companies. With...
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- September 1981 (Revised November 1983)
- Case
El Paso - PNW Merger (A)
Vietor, Richard H.K. "El Paso - PNW Merger (A)." Harvard Business School Case 382-040, September 1981. (Revised November 1983.)
- March 1988
- Case
Richardson-Vicks--1985 (B)
Considers takeover defenses erected by Richardson-Vicks. The objective is to determine whether these defenses can by breached by a determined suitor, like Unilever.
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Rock, Kevin F. "Richardson-Vicks--1985 (B)." Harvard Business School Case 288-049, March 1988.
Henry J. Heinz II
Heinz II engineered immense growth for the food products firm. In his first few years as president, Heinz took advantage of the postwar boom in the American economy and took the firm public in 1946. Through an extensive and well-planned set of View Details
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Food & Tobacco
William R. Hearst
Beginning with the San Francisco Examiner in 1887, Hearst used aggressive acquisition techniques to build a publishing empire. His acquisition of the New York Journal in 1895 set the stage for fierce...
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Publishing & Print Media
- June 2016
- Case
Suominen Wipes the Slate Clean
By: Boris Groysberg, Kalle Heikkinen and Michael Norris
In 2016, after successfully turning around Finnish nonwovens manufacturer Suominen, CEO Nina Kopola faces a decision on the company’s strategy moving forward.
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Nonwovens;
Female Protagonist;
Turnaround;
Strategy;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Pulp and Paper Industry;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
Manufacturing Industry;
Industrial Products Industry;
Consumer Products Industry;
Europe;
United States;
Finland
Groysberg, Boris, Kalle Heikkinen, and Michael Norris. "Suominen Wipes the Slate Clean." Harvard Business School Case 416-047, June 2016.
- November 2000
- Article
A Buy-Side Model of M&A Lockups: Theory and Evidence
By: Guhan Subramanian and John C. Coates
Subramanian, Guhan, and John C. Coates. "A Buy-Side Model of M&A Lockups: Theory and Evidence." Stanford Law Review 53, no. 2 (November 2000): 307–396. (Selected by academics as one of the 'top ten' articles in corporate/securities law for 2001, out of 300 articles published in that year.)
- 22 Jul 2005
- Keynote Speech
Mergers and Acquisitions: Constructive or Destructive Force of Change?
By: W. Carl Kester
- September 2000
- Case
MCI-WorldCom Combination, The (B)
By: Paul M. Healy and Jacob Cohen
Supplements the (A) case.
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Healy, Paul M., and Jacob Cohen. "MCI-WorldCom Combination, The (B)." Harvard Business School Case 101-028, September 2000.