Management Buyout - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

The Acquirers

Management Unit, said his research with Marc Martos-Vila (UCLA Anderson School of Management), and Jarrad Harford (University of Washington) revealed unexpected theories about when and why companies merge or acquire other firms—and how... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Financial Services

10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurship in Europe

push into other countries more quickly. "Building a functioning multinational firm is a huge challenge. There are many that underestimate it." A strong rise in both venture capital and private equity funds under management shows... View Details

Keywords: by Kenneth Liss

20 Nov 2007
First Look

First Look: November 20, 2007

Research Agenda Author:Roberto Verganti Periodical:Journal of Product Innovation Management (forthcoming) Abstract Recent studies on design management have helped us to better comprehend how companies can... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

July 1996 (Revised January 1997)
Case

Northwest Airlines: Brush with Bankruptcy (A)--November 1992

By: Leonard A. Schlesinger and Davis Dyer

Deals with Northwest's financial crisis between the fall of 1992 and the following spring. Northwest's leaders face the problem of how to meet an impending $600 million payment on the 1989 LBO loan when the airline had run out of cash. Concludes by outlining options... View Details

Keywords: Air Transportation; Restructuring; Leveraged Buyouts; Crisis Management; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Financial Strategy; Financial Crisis; Air Transportation Industry; United States

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09 Jul 2019
News

The Road to Impact

made a leap of faith. If he could just find a management position at a nonprofit, he figured, he could help direct social change. “That was my thesis,” he recalls. Since he made that jump, he’s proved that thesis correct several times... View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov; Educational Support Services; Educational Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Five Questions for Stuart Gilson

companies that managed the restructuring process successfully, despite facing huge obstacles, to highlight "best practice" (although in several cases I did not know what the outcome would be when I first contacted the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2005
News

Making History, Starting Over

stepping down from management responsibilities for Apax, but remaining active,” an understatement that seems fittingly British. Since 2000, Cohen has been increasingly involved in efforts to nurture social investment in disadvantaged... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

December 1990 (Revised February 2000)
Supplement

Wisconsin Central Ltd. Railroad and Berkshire Partners, Video

By: Michael C. Jensen and Brian Barry

Edward Burkhardt, president and CEO of Wisconsin Central, and Carl Freebback, general partner of Berkshire Partners, engage in a question and answer session with the students. View Details

Keywords: Financial Management; Governing and Advisory Boards; Leveraged Buyouts; Financial Condition; Financing and Loans; Corporate Finance; Rail Industry

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26 Oct 2017
News

Can Farming Save the Planet?

who have decades of experience in both organic and conventional farming, directly manage the farmland they convert. The organization uses a profit-sharing model, giving all participants––partners, operators, and View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman; Organic farming; Support Activities for Agriculture and Forestry; Agriculture

11 Mar 2008
First Look

First Look: March 11, 2008

the time; and (3) target shareholders receive approximately 5% higher returns through the pure go-shop process relative to the no-shop route. I also find no post-signing competition in go-shop management View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

15 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Five Questions for Paul Gompers and Josh Lerner

the venture capitalist will increasingly become a team player, coordinating the firm's resources to help portfolio firms. Q: What are the opportunities and challenges for international venture capital efforts? A: For its first fifty years, venture capital (as opposed... View Details

Keywords: by Carol Elsen; Financial Services

July 2008
Teaching Note

Yale University Investments Office: August 2006 (TN)

By: Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon

Teaching Note for [807073]. View Details

Keywords: Investment Funds; Strategy; Cost vs Benefits; Resource Allocation; Decision Choices and Conditions; Venture Capital; Assets; Leveraged Buyouts

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27 Apr 2010
First Look

First Look: April 27

managers and recruiters are questioning conventional business education. Their concerns? Among other things, MBA programs aren't giving students the heightened cultural awareness and global perspectives they need. Newly minted MBAs lack... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

18 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 18, 2007

Working PapersOptimal Reserve Management and Sovereign Debt Authors:Laura Alfaro and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract Most models currently used to determine optimal foreign reserve holdings take the level of international debt as given. However,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

28 May 2013
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First Look: May 28

chosen strategy. By enabling an honest, organization-wide, and public conversation, senior management teams, working collaboratively with scholar-consultants and organizational members, have access to valid data (the unvarnished truth),... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

July 1996
Case

Bayside Controls, Inc.

By: H. Kent Bowen, Jennifer Kochman and Sylvie Ryckebusch

Two recent MBA graduates acquire a small and ailing metal-machining company that had manufactured small aerospace components. Through clever application of state-of-the-art manufacturing, engineering, and marketing/sales concepts, they turned the company into a growing... View Details

Keywords: Business Earnings; Leveraged Buyouts; Machinery and Machining; Leading Change; Growth and Development Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Production; Personal Development and Career; Sales; Aerospace Industry

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18 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]

role (himself MBA '75, PhD '82, he is D'Arbeloff MBA Class of 1955 professor of business administration and cochair of the school's entrepreneurship and service management unit), he pointed out that none of these ideas was a business.... View Details

Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg

25 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 25

working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=46882 Friends with Close Ties: Asset or Liability? Evidence from the Investment Decisions of Mutual Funds in China By: Gao, Xinzi, T.J. Wong, Lijun Xia, and Gwen Yu Abstract—When fund View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Nov 2016
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November 22, 2016

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/117106-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 917-003 The Management Buyout of Dell, Inc. No abstract available. Purchase this case:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne