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- August 2018 (Revised April 2021)
- Case
The Fuji-Xerox Merger
By: Guhan Subramanian and Annie Zhao
In January 2018, Xerox, a well-known American digital document firm, convened its board of directors to decide whether to approve a merger with Japanese imaging company Fujifilm. Activist Xerox shareholders were suing to halt the transaction, and documents unearthed...
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Mergers and Acquisitions;
Negotiation Deal;
Negotiation Process;
Corporate Governance;
Law
Subramanian, Guhan, and Annie Zhao. "The Fuji-Xerox Merger." Harvard Business School Case 919-002, August 2018. (Revised April 2021.)
- 2007
- Book
Mergers: Leadership, Performance & Corporate Health
By: David G. Fubini, Colin Price and Maurizio Zollo
Drawing on their own extensive integration experience, the systematic analysis of 167 mergers, and cutting edge academic research, the authors of this book identify the common leadership challenges to be tackled for the achievement of what we call 'corporate health',...
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Corporate Health;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Leadership;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Success
Fubini, David G., Colin Price, and Maurizio Zollo. Mergers: Leadership, Performance & Corporate Health. Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
- July 2015
- Exercise
An Activist Approach: Confidential Role Assignment for Castle Rock Management
By: Guhan Subramanian and Kait Szydlowski
A three party, multiple-issue negotiation exercise dealing with a potential merger between two leading department stores, called for by an activist investor hedge fund in a letter to both companies. Company management will now attempt to navigate next moves, which are...
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Negotiation;
Activist Investors;
Takeover Defense;
Negotiation Types;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Corporate Governance;
Investment Activism;
Retail Industry
Subramanian, Guhan, and Kait Szydlowski. "An Activist Approach: Confidential Role Assignment for Castle Rock Management." Harvard Business School Exercise 916-012, July 2015.
- 29 May 2013
- Blog Post
Four Weeks on the Road with MBAs Across America
business, Made Collection. We helped the Collection refine their target audience and customer acquisition strategy, and Mike and Hicham managed to fit in a jam session with some of their resident musicians, too! We also explored Boulder’s...
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Entrepreneurship
- 07 Feb 2019
- News
A Course Correction at Chris-Craft
Stephen Heese (MBA 1988), left (photo by mbr/Sarasota Herald-Tribune/Thomas Bender, AP) Stephen Heese (MBA 1988), left (photo by mbr/Sarasota Herald-Tribune/Thomas Bender, AP) A recent article in the Des Moines Register detailed the story of how two alumni—Stephen...
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- June 1994 (Revised December 1997)
- Case
Safeway, Inc.'s Leveraged Buyout (C): Media Response
Focuses exclusively on the controversy by presenting the media responses to the LBO and its aftermath, including full text of Faludi's interview with Safeway CEO Peter Magowan, and her subsequent Journal article.
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Wruck, Karen, and Steve-Anna Stephens. "Safeway, Inc.'s Leveraged Buyout (C): Media Response." Harvard Business School Case 294-141, June 1994. (Revised December 1997.)
- March 1988 (Revised January 1993)
- Case
Richardson-Vicks--1985 (A)
Considers the predicament of Richardson-Vicks in 1985. After 80 years of growth and independence, the company is the object of takeover rumors. The objective is to determine why these difficulties have arisen and what, if anything, Richardson-Vicks can do about them.
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Rock, Kevin F. "Richardson-Vicks--1985 (A)." Harvard Business School Case 288-048, March 1988. (Revised January 1993.)
- December 2016
- Article
Deal Process Design in Management Buyouts
Management buyouts (MBOs) are an economically and legally significant class of transaction: not only do they account for more than $10 billion in deal volume per year, on average, but they also play an important role in defining the relationship between inside and...
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Subramanian, Guhan. "Deal Process Design in Management Buyouts." Harvard Law Review 130, no. 2 (December 2016): 590–658.
- August 2008 (Revised April 2012)
- Case
Real Property Negotiation Game (A): Buyer Case, Celia Hernandez
By: Arthur I Segel and John H. Vogel, Jr.
The Real Property Negotiation Game simulates the experience negotiating the sale, purchase, or financing of a property. The class competes as either a lender, buyer, or one of two groups of sellers, Raleigh, North Carolina and Las Vegas, Nevada. This is the buyer case...
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Segel, Arthur I., and John H. Vogel, Jr. "Real Property Negotiation Game (A): Buyer Case, Celia Hernandez." Harvard Business School Case 209-034, August 2008. (Revised April 2012.)
- May–June 1995
- Article
Rehabilitating the Leveraged Buyout: A Look at Clayton, Dubilier and Rice
By: W. C. Kester and T. A. Luehrman
Kester, W. C., and T. A. Luehrman. "Rehabilitating the Leveraged Buyout: A Look at Clayton, Dubilier and Rice." Harvard Business Review 73, no. 3 (May–June 1995): 119–130.
- August–September 1997
- Article
Mining Knowledge Assets for Innovation
By: D. A. Leonard
Leonard, D. A. "Mining Knowledge Assets for Innovation." Knowledge Management 1, no. 1 (August–September 1997): 11–13.
- August 2009
- Teaching Note
Procter & Gamble in the 21st Century (B): Welcoming Gillette (TN)
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Matthew Bird
Teaching Note for [309031].
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- 01 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
How IT Shapes Top-Down and Bottom-Up Decision Making
assistant professor of strategy at Harvard Business School. “If a CEO can trust his senior managers, he will be more willing to decentralize decision-making” "The bottom line is that whoever is in charge of the acquisitions and the...
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by Carmen Nobel
- May 2010
- Teaching Note
Offering the Right Service in the Right Place: Growing Orthopedics at the Brigham and Women's/Faulkner (BW/F) Hospitals (TN)
By: V.G. Narayanan and Lisa Brem
Teaching Note for [108016].
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- Article
Valuation Waves and Merger Activity: The Empirical Evidence
By: Matthew Rhodes-Kropf, David Robinson and S. Viswanathan
To test recent theories suggesting that valuation errors affect merger activity, we develop a decomposition that breaks the market-to-book ratio (M/B) into three components: the firm-specific pricing deviation from short-run industry pricing; sector-wide, short-run...
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Rhodes-Kropf, Matthew, David Robinson, and S. Viswanathan. "Valuation Waves and Merger Activity: The Empirical Evidence." Journal of Financial Economics 77, no. 3 (September 2005): 561–603.
- June 2007 (Revised January 2009)
- Case
Nextel Partners: Put Option
By: Timothy A. Luehrman and Douglas Scott
Nextel Partners' shareholders have voted to exercise a put option that will require the company's largest shareholder, Sprint Nextel Corp., to purchase all the shares it does not already own. However, the put option does not stipulate a price to be paid, but rather a...
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Luehrman, Timothy A., and Douglas Scott. "Nextel Partners: Put Option." Harvard Business School Case 207-128, June 2007. (Revised January 2009.)
- May 2005
- Supplement
GlaxoSmithKline: Reorganizing Drug Discovery (B)
By: Robert S. Huckman and Eli Strick
Supplements the (A) case.
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Keywords:
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Decisions;
Operations;
Performance;
Research and Development;
Restructuring;
Organizations;
Pharmaceutical Industry
Huckman, Robert S., and Eli Strick. "GlaxoSmithKline: Reorganizing Drug Discovery (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 605-075, May 2005.
- 06 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 6
Harvard Business School Case 308-022 CEMEX grew through acquisitions from a Latin American to a global company under the leadership of a CEO who believed in the importance of a "one enterprise" culture and benchmarking against...
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Martha Lagace
- May 2020
- Teaching Note
Bayer Crop Science
By: David E. Bell, Michael Norris and Mel Martin
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 520-055.
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- May 2008
- Teaching Note
Michael Fernandes at Nicholas Piramal (TN)
By: Michel Anteby and Nitin Nohria
Teaching Note for [408-001].
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