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    Best-selling and New Cases by Ben Esty

    Best-Selling (MOST POPULAR) Cases:  

      1) Eaton: Portfolio Transformation & Cost of... View Details

    • 30 May 2019
    • Working Paper Summaries

    US Antitrust Law and Policy in Historical Perspective

    Keywords: by Laura Phillips Sawyer; Education
    • 01 Jun 1997
    • News

    Blockbuster Deals

    A wave of mergers is sweeping the country, activity that recalls the 1980s, the 1960s, and even, some say, the empire-building of a century ago. In the following article, nine HBS professors comment on the current M&As; phenomenon and how... View Details
    Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
    • 06 Dec 2017
    • News

    Puzzle Master

    business relative to other omnichannel retailers, our data scientists and digital marketing experts optimize our content to deliver a superior and customized customer experience, and we often pilot new partnerships and integrations across... View Details
    • 23 Oct 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: October 23, 2007

    game. We show that vertical mergers give rise to an outlets effect: the deviation profits of cheating unintegrated firms are reduced as these firms can no longer profitably sell to the downstream affiliates of their View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 20 Feb 2013
    • Research & Ideas

    Big Deal: Reflections on the Megamerger of American and US Airways

    value the respective boards claim will soon become a matter of leadership: How the integration is conceived and led. Having studied and consulted to numerous integration teams, I learned the M&A variant... View Details
    Keywords: Re: Rosabeth M. Kanter & Stuart C. Gilson; Air Transportation
    • 01 Oct 1999
    • News

    Historic Gift from HBS to New Radcliffe Institute

    Harvard Business School has contributed a six-figure gift to the new Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, which will be established as an integral part of Harvard University as a result of Radcliffe College's View Details
    • January 2008
    • Case

    Parks Capital - Investment in US Retail, Inc.

    Parks Capital acquired a Children's Apparel Manufacturer , American Child Clothing Manufacturers, Inc. (ACCM), in 2001. Two years later ACCM's largest retail customer, U.S. Retail, Inc., decided to evaluate strategic alternatives due to financial difficulties. Parks... View Details
    Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Customer Value and Value Chain; Private Equity; Vertical Integration; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Retail Industry; United States
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    • June 2004
    • Case

    Aventis SA (B): A Company is Born

    By: Joshua D. Margolis and Carin-Isabel Knoop
    Supplements the (A) case. View Details
    Keywords: Problems and Challenges; Mergers and Acquisitions; Horizontal Integration; Organizational Design; Organizational Culture; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States
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    • November 2005 (Revised February 2009)
    • Case

    Publicis Groupe: Leading Creative Acquisitions

    By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Ryan Raffaelli
    The CEO of a French-based advertising agency network led a series of high-profile acquisitions that created the world's 4th largest global communications company, after a failed strategic alliance taught him lessons about leadership and business relationships. View Details
    Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Leadership; Management Succession; Partners and Partnerships; Cooperation; Integration; France
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    • February 1998
    • Teaching Note

    Aladdin Knowledge Systems TN

    By: Das Narayandas
    Teaching Note for (9-598-018). View Details
    Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Competition; Marketing; Sales; Distribution; Safety; Globalization; Integration; Information Technology Industry; Europe; United States
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    • November 2000 (Revised December 2001)
    • Case

    iSteelAsia (A)

    By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Pamela A. Yatsko
    The chairman of a Hong Kong-based steel distributor starts an online Asian steel trading portal and contemplates different paths to profitability and growth. Barriers include industrial culture, weakened markets in the spring of 2000, and vulnerability to takeover by... View Details
    Keywords: Commercialization; Distribution Channels; Business Growth and Maturation; Horizontal Integration; Transformation; Corporate Strategy; Business Strategy; Mergers and Acquisitions; Steel Industry; Hong Kong
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    • September 1994 (Revised August 2006)
    • Case

    Giddings & Lewis: In Search of the Cutting Edge (Consolidated) (A)

    By: Nitin Nohria, Bharat N. Anand and Kyle F. Barnett
    Describes the conditions leading to the acquisition of Cross and Trecker by Gidding & Lewis. View Details
    Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Negotiation; Situation or Environment; Integration; Valuation
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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]. View Details
    Keywords: Conflict and Resolution; Conferences; Mergers and Acquisitions; Integration; Globalization; Pharmaceutical Industry; Canada; United Kingdom
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    • 02 Jan 2018
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018

    model where firms choose which suppliers to integrate and whether to delegate decisions to integrated suppliers or keep them centralized. We test the predictions of this model using a novel dataset that... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Web

    Leadership Execution and Action Planning (LEAP) - Course Catalog

    development. Through the lens of case protagonists at various stages of their careers, LEAP gives students the opportunity to practice identifying common execution traps and missteps. LEAP is an integrated leadership course, building on... View Details
    • February 2010
    • Teaching Note

    Wanxiang Group: A Chinese Company's Global Strategy (TN)

    By: Regina M. Abrami, William C. Kirby, F. Warren McFarlan and Keith Chi-ho Wong
    Teaching Note for [308058]. View Details
    Keywords: Business History; Global Strategy; Business Conglomerates; Vertical Integration; Goals and Objectives; Mergers and Acquisitions; Auto Industry; China; United States
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    • 06 Aug 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: August 6

    performance. Your students effectively prepare for leadership roles and truly think like managers as they master and address the many integrated facets involved in answering the key question: How are leaders successfully managing... View Details
    Keywords: Anna Secino
    • 14 Oct 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: October 14

    purpose, values, and principles (PVP) to create a global company. When P&G faced difficult times in 2000, the new CEO, A.G. Lafley, leveraged the PVP to drive P&G's turnaround, integrate global operations, and guide decision... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 01 Mar 2007
    • News

    Daniel Vasella

    this one played out brilliantly. Within a decade, Dr. Daniel Vasella (PMD 57, 1989) rocketed through the ranks of Sandoz and in 1996 led the firm’s merger with Ciba-Geigy, emerging as CEO of the new company called Novartis, based in... View Details
    Keywords: Roger Thompson; multinational pharmaceutical company; prescription drugs; vaccines; Medicare; generics business; Health, Social Assistance