Business Conglomerates - Publications - Faculty & Research

23 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 23, 2008

mode of governance in the American economy: business schools became essential sites for the development of tools and methods for the management of the new large, diversified conglomerates (input-output... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

21 Apr 2015
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private equity investments suggest that the results are not driven by reverse causality. These patterns are not driven solely by common law nations such as the United Kingdom and United States, but also hold in Continental Europe. April 2015 Harvard View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne

19 Aug 2008
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http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=508092 Danaher Corporation Harvard Business School Case 708-445 Between 1985 and 2007, Danaher has been one of the best-performing industrial View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Mar 2016
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March 15, 2016

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/216029-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 316-013 HNA Group: Global Excellence with Chinese Characteristics By 2015, the HNA Group had grown from its roots as Hainan Airlines, a small airline... View Details

September – October 1999
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Creating Breakthroughs at 3M

By: E. Von Hippel, S. Thomke and M. Sonnack

Keywords: Business Conglomerates; Consumer Products Industry

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January 1989 (Revised March 2009)
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General Electric: Valley Forge (F)

By: Robert L. Simons

Keywords: Business Conglomerates; Pennsylvania

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March 2017
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Cantel Medical

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth

Cantel Medical Corporation provided infection prevention and control products and services for patients, caregivers, and other healthcare providers. In 2016, Cantel generated sales of $665 million and net profits of $60 million, double the levels of five years earlier.... View Details

Keywords: Cantel; Charles Diker; Furniture Industry; Matrix Organization; Acquisition; Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Conglomerates; Business Units; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Organization; For-Profit Firms; Chemicals; Profit; Revenue; Geographic Scope; Multinational Firms and Management; Health; Health Care and Treatment; Business History; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Structure; Problems and Challenges; Research and Development; Opportunities; Strategy; Adaptation; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Diversification; Expansion; Information Technology; Biotechnology Industry; Chemical Industry; Health Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States; New Jersey

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26 May 2016
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Sunil B. Mittal, OPM 27, 1999

always in business development, sales, and closing deals,” says Mittal, who eventually moved to Bombay, where “in a six-hour day you could finish what would take a month in Ludhiana.” With the resources of a big city now available, Mittal... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

January 1971 (Revised October 1975)
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Ling Temco Vought, Inc.

By: William E. Fruhan Jr.

Keywords: Business Conglomerates

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April 2007 (Revised August 2009)
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Cargill (B)

By: Ray A. Goldberg and Jose M. M. Porraz

Keywords: Business Conglomerates

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08 Dec 2015
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December 8, 2015

substantial international businesses. This working paper argues that diversified business groups added value in mature markets such as Britain. In the domestic economy, Pearson and Virgin created well-managed and performing View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Sep 2014
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that pursue a social mission through the use of market mechanisms. These hybrid organizations, often referred to as social enterprises, combine aspects of both charity and business at their core. In this paper we distinguish between two... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Jan 2014
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Publications January 2014 Harvard Business Review IDEO's Culture of Helping By: Amabile, Teresa, Colin M. Fisher, and Julianna Pillemer Abstract—Leaders can do few things more important than encouraging helping behavior within their... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Jan 2016
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January 12, 2016

focus of this case is how a technology company such as Avocent, with a dramatically different business model compared to its acquirer, should be integrated into a large, multi-industry conglomerate like... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

1986
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U.K. Conglomerates: A View of Hanson Trust

By: Michael E. Porter

Keywords: Business Conglomerates; United Kingdom

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June 2013 (Revised August 2014)
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Ayala Corporation & the Philippines: Asset Allocation in a Growing Economy (B)

By: Eric Werker, Yasmin Mandviwala, Henry Motte-Munoz and Arthur Wit

Keywords: Asset Allocation; Assets; Business Conglomerates; Philippines

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31 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 31

MaterialsGoldwind USA: Chinese Wind in the Americas Regina M. Abrami, and Iacob Koch-WeserHarvard Business School Case 912-416 Many Chinese firms have struggled in the United States. Renewable energy is a fledgling, high-risk market. Can... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Dec 2007
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A View from the Top

devoted time and resources to protecting the world’s wide-open spaces. Two of this year’s winners cited family life. “Finding a balance is something I’m proud about,” remarked Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala (MBA ’87), leader of the 173-year-old Ayala Corporation, a View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

01 Nov 2011
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diversified conglomerate in Thailand and expanded the business in Southeast Asia and China. While growing the business, he and his brothers created a holding company to both maintain and separate the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne