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- 08 Oct 2020
- News
Leader of Metro Named Canada's Outstanding CEO of the Year
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Case Study: Glass Half Full
Amazon and relying instead on Shopify as an online storefront and on ShipBob for fulfillment. Then came the cold shower of reality: Customer acquisition beyond Amazon can prove very expensive. He decided to offer Neutrall’s products there... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Learning to Speak the Language of Business
countries—including Brazil, China, and the United States—and plans to add seven more this year. Success as a global player takes more than an aggressive acquisitions plan, says Mikitani. It requires that all 7,100 of the firm’s Japanese... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
BOOK: Creating Value through Corporate Restructuring
proceeded when faced with multiple options. Those options — from mergers and acquisitions to leveraged buyouts and asset divestitures to "vulture" investing and tracking stock — are also explored. Gilson reminds readers that the devil is... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 16 May 2017
- News
Facing the Board
startup than an asset management firm. BlackRock, she said, was about “performance and collaboration in a real way.” Bill Gluck (MBA 1970), managing director of the Farmington Group, countered, saying BlackRock could use the acquisition... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Honoring HBS’s Organization Men
sole influence was rational self-interest. “We have acquisitive and social instincts. It’s not all or nothing, it’s both — that’s what makes us such interesting creatures.” Related Links A Modern-Day Classic View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Faculty Responds to Financial Crisis
Lecturer Clayton Rose and Assistant Professor Daniel Bergstresser’s new case on JPMorgan Chase’s acquisition of Bear Stearns will be taught to all first-year students in two different courses and from two different perspectives. “In... View Details
- 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... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Action Plan: Rapids Growth
heck out of it,” recalls Holley, a former consultant and finance executive. “The question was whether it could be profitable. I was pleasantly surprised to find that both were true.” Last summer, Holley wrapped up his acquisition of... View Details
Keywords: Ryan Jones
- 21 Apr 2015
- News
Teva Makes Takeover Bid for Mylan
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Taking Care of Business
recommended against producing sleepwear, now a highly popular line. Knock out! has been an acquisition target, but buyers always planned to offshore manufacturing—a nonstarter for the North Carolinian and mother of three whose father,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Oct 2013
- News
Banking on Africa's Future
interesting activity, Lawani says, has been Helios's acquisition from multinationals of African businesses that, because of changes in strategy or focus by the parent company, have become "non-core" operations and thus essentially... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Insatiably Curious
acquisitions at Morgan Stanley, and then to private equity, asset allocation, and now, to leading operations. Ma recently was appointed chief operating officer (COO) of Index Ventures, a 25-year-old international venture capital firm. “We... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Beyond the Numbers
one moderately successful product — Stove Top stuffing mix. " Armed with this information, he quickly advised the firm to refocus its efforts on acquiring established but undermarketed concerns, which eventually led to GF's profitable View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Message and the Media: Advertising's Brave New World
On the regulatory front, the Telecommunications Act of 1996 and a relaxation of restrictions on multiple ownership of media outlets are realigning and consolidating the power of media ownership. Lastly, in the economic arena, a wave of mergers and View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
One-on-One with Jim Breyer
Breyer Illustration by John Cuneo In a year when the highest percentage of HBS graduates ever went to Wall Street, Jim Breyer (MBA ’87) headed west to join an upstart venture capital firm called Accel Partners. He figured he’d stay a couple of years and then maybe... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
A Wide Screen Approach
Immersive Media “The single largest revenue stream for sports in North America is media rights. The sports industry is slowly adapting to new formats and platforms, which is having an immediate impact on the acquisition and retention of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Home Sweet (Modular) Home
houses are designed, built, and marketed.” A graduate of MIT, Stuntz launched Green-tech in 1998 following the acquisition of his former firm, Acorn Structures, a custom-home builder. “The new owners didn’t need two presidents,” he... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Case Study: Inside Story
be a competitive, winner-take-all market? If so, then scaling quickly becomes important. Assuming Saga feels ready, and that now is the time in which to scale quickly, they should consider building the resources to have a portfolio of View Details