Mergers And Acquisitions - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Dec 2006
Op-Ed

India Needs to Encourage Trade with China

withered away in response to the Chinese threat. Nor have major overseas ventures by the Chinese, in Europe and the West, been unambiguously successful. Shenzhen-based TCL Multimedia, among the world's largest TV makers, for instance,... View Details

Keywords: by Tarun Khanna

10 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 10

http://hbr.org/search/313096-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 212-082 Schneider Electric: Becoming the Global Specialist in Energy Management Global electrical products company assesses growth and market demands in India. Company must... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Oct 2003
What Do You Think?

Is “the Innovator’s Solution” to Sustained Corporate Growth an Unnatural Act?

be managed effectively on a continuing basis. As Richard Eckel put it, "'Disruptive' is the clue for why the proposed method of sustained growth will fail in most organizations ... B-schools graduate and laud those who are risk... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

November 1999
Case

Seminis Inc.

By: Ray A. Goldberg, Jonathan West, Carin-Isabel Knoop and David Benedict Pearcy

Seminis became the world leader in vegetable seeds through a series of acquisitions. This case describes the Seminis strategy toward capturing value, biotechnology, and international operations. View Details

Keywords: Business Earnings; Acquisition; Profit; Global Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Valuation; Value Creation; Biotechnology Industry

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10 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018

SolarCity In 2016, electric car manufacturer Tesla announced that it was making an offer to acquire solar panel manufacturer SolarCity in an all-stock offer worth $2.6 billion in Tesla stock. Tesla’s co-founder and CEO, Elon Musk,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

September 2013
Article

Combining Banking with Private Equity Investing

By: Lily H. Fang, Victoria Ivashina and Josh Lerner

Bank-affiliated private equity groups account for 30% of all private equity investments. Their market share is highest during peaks of the private equity market, when the parent banks arrange more debt financing for in-house transactions yet have the lowest exposure to... View Details

Keywords: Regulation; Private Equity; Leveraged Buyouts; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry

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21 Apr 2015
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Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/715412-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 515-059 Rebranding Godiva: The Yildiz Strategy This case concerns Yildiz Holding's acquisition of Godiva Chocolatier from its... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne

08 Jun 2010
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economic theory of the costs and benefits of corporate culture—in the sense of shared beliefs and values—in order to study the effects of 'culture clash' in mergers View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

27 Jun 2016
News

Ulf Mark Schneider Has Plans to Make Nestlé Healthy

the company since 1922. A piece in Fortune notes that the appointment “could trigger a series of acquisitions by the Swiss food giant to further its ambitions in nutrition and medical foods.” Schneider comes... View Details

May 2010
Article

Is Delaware's Antitakeover Statute Unconstitutional? Evidence from 1988-2008

By: Guhan Subramanian, Steven Herscovici and Brian Barbetta

Delaware's antitakeover statute, codified at Section 203 of the Delaware corporate code, is by far the most important antitakeover statute in the United States. When it was first enacted in 1988, three bidders challenged its constitutionality under the Commerce Clause... View Details

Keywords: Courts and Trials; Opportunities; Bids and Bidding; Laws and Statutes; Decisions; Change; Acquisition; United States

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Through a number of successful mergers and acquisitions, Humphrey dramatically expanded and diversified M. A. Hanna’s production. By the end of his tenure, the company had... View Details

Keywords: Agriculture & Mining

24 Mar 2002
Lessons from the Classroom

Case Study: A Lesson in Private Venture Financing

With few opportunities for IPOs, a developing infrastructure, low transparency, and a limited labor market, the environment for private venture financing in Africa could be described as "challenging" at best. Yet if the demands... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

April 2010 (Revised March 2011)
Case

The Auction for Travelport (A)

By: Andrei Hagiu and Misha Sanwal

A senior Blackstone director is deciding how aggressively to bid for Travelport, a travel distribution business containing several key services and platforms. Travelport's most important properties were Galileo, one of the top 3 global distribution systems (GDSs),... View Details

Keywords: Value Creation; Product Positioning; Cost vs Benefits; Private Equity; Leveraged Buyouts; Competitive Advantage; Auctions; Industry Structures; Travel Industry

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03 Nov 2009
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were in a precarious position. One such institution was Wachovia, which entered acquisition talks with Citigroup and Wells Fargo. This case describes the development of these negotiations throughout the week... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Africa - Global Activities 2021

mergers and acquisitions associate at Africa Health Management in Accra, Ghana. Dezzy Ogakwu (MBA 2021) , director/CEO of Lagos-based Aku Fintech, which enables access to... View Details

26 Feb 2013
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acquisition (CPA). However, these standard online advertising metrics are plagued with attribution problems and do not account for dynamics. These issues can easily lead firms to overspend on some actions... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Oct 1999
News

Eight Among Many: Kenneth A. Goldman

Excite@Home's acquisitions and partnerings with the many cable, computer, and media companies necessary to create its new platinum-paved info highway, Goldman has been heading... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

09 Jun 2009
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the (C) case details the results of an employee survey that was conducted on two manufacturing lines. Purchase this case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=609080 Kmart and ESL Investments (B): The Sears View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

28 Oct 2019
Research & Ideas

Brick-and-Mortar Stores Are Making a Comeback

meant to be a channel of distribution; it’s an acquisition engine and a way to make a brand splash in a particular market. Moreno: Warby Parker also has photo booths in some of their stores, where you can... View Details

Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint; Retail

May 2011
Article

Overconfidence by Bayesian Rational Agents

By: Eric J. Van den Steen

This paper derives two mechanisms through which Bayesian-rational individuals with differing priors will tend to be relatively overconfident about their estimates and predictions, in the sense of overestimating the precision of these estimates. The intuition behind one... View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Forecasting and Prediction; Knowledge Acquisition; Risk Management; Prejudice and Bias

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