Business Conglomerates - Publications - Faculty & Research

April 1993 (Revised November 1995)
Case

San Miguel Corporation: Facing the 1990s

By: James E. Austin and Francisco Roman

Keywords: Business Conglomerates; Corporate Strategy

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June 2013 (Revised August 2014)
Supplement

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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12 Jan 2016
First Look

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

Carl H. Lindner, Jr.

Lindner parlayed his small interest in a family dairy business into one of the largest and most successful financial conglomerates in the United States. Beginning with the purchase of one insurance company... View Details

Keywords: Finance

Career Coach

Rachel Hoang

Rachel can assist students who are interested in pursuing a career in sports, media, and entertainment. She has experience working in a smaller entertainment technology company and a large media conglomerate and can help navigate the... View Details

13 Apr 2015
News

Jeffrey Immelt Is Putting His Own Stamp on Jack Welch’s G.E.

Keywords: Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Jun 2014
News

Liberal Smarts

May's Harvard Commencement was a special one for Anand Mahindra (MBA 1981), chairman and managing director of the Indian conglomerate Mahindra & Mahindra, as the University used the occasion to recognize him and two others with the... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

Frank A. Vanderlip

Because of his extensive study of European public and private financing systems during 1901, Vanderlip helped National City Bank become a tremendous resource for American businesses wishing to expand abroad. Vanderlip’s international... View Details

Keywords: Finance

Harold L. Stuart

Following its spin off from N. W. Halsey, Stuart continued his Chicago-based firm’s strong presence in bond issuance, helping raise funds for many industrial conglomerates that, until that time, had always gone to New York for financing.... View Details

Keywords: Finance

20 May 2014
News

Managing the Family Business: Survival’s Secret Sauce

James J. Ling

Ling was a maverick in the development of the conglomerate business model, building in 14 years the 14th largest industrial corporation in the United States. A major risk taker, Ling extensively used debt to... View Details

Keywords: Fabricated Goods

December 1996 (Revised November 2006)
Background Note

General Mills, Inc.: Appendix of Comparable Company Data

By: William J. Bruns Jr.

Financial ratios for comparable companies to be used in conjunction with an analysis of the General Mills Annual Report. View Details

Keywords: Business Conglomerates; Analytics and Data Science; Food and Beverage Industry

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22 Aug 2016
News

The Future of GE

consumer businesses we were in. We’ve exited plastics and things like that. In the last 15 years, we’re one of the few leadership teams in history that’s sold $100 billion in businesses and bought $100... View Details

01 Dec 2012
News

Sunny's MBA

In 1986, as a 26-year-old with a degree in agricultural management and little business experience, Sunny Verghese (AMP 115, 1994) was newly employed by a venerable Indian conglomerate to oversee a textile... View Details

Keywords: Crop Production; Agriculture; Apparel Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Mar 2016
News

@Soldiers Field

famous for its intellectual freedom,” Wang Jianlin, chairman of the global conglomerate Dalian Wanda Group, told 800-plus students who gathered in Burden Hall in October. “Ask me anything at all.” Students quizzed China’s richest man on... View Details

January 2011 (Revised August 2011)
Supplement

Kanebo Ltd. (B)

By: David F. Hawkins, Suraj Srinivasan and Akiko Kanno

Financial statements before and after restatement following revelation of fraud. View Details

Keywords: Cost Accounting; Financial Statements; Crime and Corruption; Business Conglomerates; Japan

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23 Apr 2014
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A corporate leader’s legacy in India

When Ratan Tata (AMP 71, 1975) joined his family’s business in 1962, it was on the Tata Steel shop floor in Jamshedpur, India. From the ground up, Tata learned how to be an effective manager and a corporate leader who understands the... View Details

July 2003 (Revised August 2006)
Case

House of Tata-2000: The Next Generation (B)

By: Tarun Khanna, Krishna G. Palepu, Catherine M. Conneely and Kirsten O'Neil Massaro

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Alliances; Business Conglomerates; Emerging Markets; Cost; Management Teams; India

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April 2016
Teaching Note

HNA Group: Global Excellence with Chinese Characteristics

By: William C. Kirby and Joycelyn W. Eby

This teaching note is designed to support the teaching of HBS case number 316-013, "HNA Group: Global Excellence with Chinese Characteristics." View Details