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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... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
In My Humble Opinion: In the Deal
sometimes overlooked when not in the Valley, and they often solve problems more applicable to a broader population base. King [LeBron] James: “I don’t think we’ve seen a basketball player of his size and agility. He’s getting up there,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 02 Jan 2020
- News
Hospitals Merged. Quality Didn’t Improve.
- 16 Jun 2014
- News
Former Medtronic CEO Shares Perspective On Covidien Acquisition
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Curb Appeal
produce daily. Tisch held a conference call with her operations chiefs at 5 a.m., and by 8 a.m. she was on the phone with Mayor Eric Adams while parked outside a DSNY facility. Striding into a garage the size of a football field to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Venturing Forth
Illustration by Adam McCauley Venture capital is a heady industry: Big bets mean big checks when the deals hit right. And for most of the last decade, those taking part in the funds were riding high: Capital was abundant, valuations were... View Details
- 22 Sep 2023
- News
Capital Connection
Vernon Beckford (MBA 2013) saw the gap almost immediately. From the beginning of his career in commercial real estate finance—first at Credit Suisse and then later at CW Capital and Global Atlantic Financial Group—Beckford observed Wall Street’s obsession with... View Details
- 15 Dec 2023
- News
Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem
mission. They bring energy, ideas, they’re hungry for growth, they’re eager and passionate and give you their best.” The downsides, say panelists, include a lack of infrastructure in financing, low debt availability for small and medium View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 12 Feb 2021
- News
How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World
brother-in-law, who was a CPA; my dad was an 8th grade-educated entrepreneur. And my uncle began taking the money from the partnership that broke up in 1955 and started a competitive chain called Mr. Donut. My dad was so upset at the fact that my uncle had almost... View Details
Keywords: brands; leadership; management; strategy; operations; career; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade
- 29 Aug 2023
- News
Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
and helping customers figure out automatically how much to buy. But that's baked into the $25 a ton that users pay. So right now, that's how we make money and actually for an app of our size it means that our revenue model is pretty... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
company that does business in more than 200 countries and uses more than 25 crops sourced from over 7 million acres in 60 different countries, PepsiCo has an opportunity and a responsibility to use our size and scale to help build a food... View Details
- 29 Jan 2010
- News
Back to Glass-Steagall?
President Obama shocked Wall Street recently with his proposal to cut down to size too-big-to-fail banks by imposing new rules to separate commercial and investment activities. Specifically, Obama would prohibit banks that take customers... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Home Sweet (Modular) Home
on supplying 580 multifamily affordable-housing units for low- and moderate-income residents of Boston. But finding a factory site in the city proved impossible, and the deal died. Searches in Providence, Rhode Island, and Hartford,... View Details
- 03 Mar 2016
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Pamela Meyer (MBA 1986)
enforcement, and intelligence—that had never been brought in a systematic way to the business world. We all make high-stakes decisions that can punctuate the course of our lives—who to hire, who to work for, who to vote for, which deal to... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Long-Term Interest: Bill Crozier, a Banker Pegged to the Customer
BankBoston in January, is impressed not only by the size of the deal but perhaps even more by what it represents: the crossing of industry lines. "With this merger, universal banking - long the style of... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The $4 Billion Question
alternative, quadrupling the size of the average deal wouldn’t require many internal changes (a big deal requires about the same amount of work as a small deal) but Yudkoff... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
be crippling. As Walt Frye (MBA 2000), an angel investor and fintech startup mentor in Charlotte, North Carolina—itself a burgeoning fintech hub—puts it: “Density breeds success.” Consequently, the fintech startup community in New York was for many years self-limiting,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Up from the Ashes
also be — and, given the large size of some companies, sometimes had to be — performed by teams of people. Meanwhile, the continual infusion of energy by the kinds of startup companies Schumpeter himself preferred remained vital sources... View Details
- 17 Oct 2019
- News
Venturing Away from Venture Capital
the National Venture Capital Association, the volume of capital flowing into startups in the first quarter of 2019 was up by 10.5 percent from the previous year, but the number of deals was down by 22.5 percent. As a result, says Alper... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 09 Oct 2015
- News
Balancing Progress and Preservation
than just financial gain,” he stresses. Some of his most successful deals have involved conservation easements that minimize investment risk while creating economic value from parcels that merit conservation. He has worked extensively on... View Details