Mergers and Acquisitions - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Jul 2018
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Ensuring HBS Remains a Dynamic Community

expressing my opinions and making presentations,” Lien explains. After HBS, Lien returned to Morgan Stanley, rising to executive director of mergers and acquisitions. She then... View Details

01 Dec 2007
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Lighten Up

someone has brought a cake. Kim shows up with two huge salads, winning cheers from the vegetarians in the group. Dan Brillon, GoLite’s COO, wears shorts and a T-shirt. Previously, he was the director of View Details

Keywords: Kathryn Jones; Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, and Book Stores; Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, and Book Stores

01 Oct 2000
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Mario A. Corti: Global Reconnaissance

For three weeks in 1992, Mario Corti saw the world as few travelers do. In a Cessna 340, he and another pilot took off from Southern California and headed east, making stops in North America, Greenland,... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Sep 2009
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E Ink’s Wild Ride

race to win new customers and e-reader converts. It will make the company a truly global entity, bringing it closer to its customers in Asia. And the acquisition will simplify... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; e-books; e-reading; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services

07 Dec 2015
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Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans

and executive I am today.” His success there also positioned him well to pursue his dream of helping to transform postsecondary education in Africa. With the acquisition of two Cavendish Universities... View Details

01 Apr 1999
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A Vibrant Brand

whom he regularly rubs shoulders. Instead, they include the likes of Dick Serafin, a production manager at Time Warner, and Sherill R. Heron and Jonathan A. Kraft, HBS classmates whose support he is... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

16 Feb 2010
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CIT Taps Thain to Run 102-Year-Old Lender

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments

01 Dec 2015
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Ink

Book Review: Space to Grow by Maureen Harmon The only requirement to be featured in Aparna Piramal Raje’s (MBA 2002) Head Office column for the Mint, one of India’s largest business newspapers, was “a distinctive space, a unique way of working, View Details

01 Apr 2001
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Student Conferences Tackle Business Issues

Panitchpakdi, the next director general of the World Trade Organization and the deputy prime minister of Thailand, discussed the need for managing developing countries’ reactions to rapid and widespread... View Details

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

01 Jun 2000
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VC Luminary John Doerr: Education Reform Critical to Success of New Economy

explained his focus on education and literacy by saying that "education is the key" for a new economy characterized by, and based upon, lifelong learning, multiple careers, and... View Details

01 Dec 2015
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How Do I Get Your Job?

Mac Bartels (Photo courtesy of Mac Bartels) Just back from the Toronto Film Festival, Eric d'Arbeloff (MBA 1993), copresident of independent film producer and distributor Roadside Attractions, talks to Mac Bartels (HBS 2016) about how he... View Details

01 Mar 2006
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Drive-In Nation

(or maybe the Big 2, after Chrysler’s merger with Daimler) continue to dominate the U.S. market, they are beset by falling sales, staggering financial obligations, and the relentless pressure of... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Motor Vehicle and Parts Dealers; Motor Vehicle and Parts Dealers

01 Jun 2007
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A Big Deal

Ratan Tata (AMP 71, 1975) made big news in February when his Tata Group purchased Corus, the Anglo-Dutch steel producer, the Financial Times reported (February 3, 2007). The $12 billion deal was one for the record books as the largest Indian takeover of a foreign... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing

01 Dec 2011
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Making the Case for Leadership

and services. “Eighty percent of our success over the past decade has been based on bright ideas that came not from me or my management team but from very young people in the organization,” he says. The case ends as Zensar charts an... View Details

01 Dec 2013
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Case Study: Citizen Buffett

trigger a crippling default on an amended loan agreement, Morton has to take a hard look at the numbers, industry trends, strategy considerations, shareholder interests, and several other financing options View Details

Keywords: Blagg, Deborah; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Aug 2001
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J. Ronald Fox (MBA '59)

resumed his academic career at HBS and completed the first of several influential books, Arming America, an exploration of the military weapons acquisition process. After leaving the faculty in 1972 to... View Details

Keywords: Alumni Achievement Award; J. Sterling Livingston; George P. Baker; Government

01 Dec 1998
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Managing the Business of Life

1996, and she moved back to the States, taking a job as vice president of operations with Warner Brothers Television in Los Angeles. "What I missed most about America was the attitude that you can be anybody View Details

01 Jun 1998
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John (“Bo”) Kemp

For someone who considers himself an "idea guy," Bo Kemp distinguished himself as a man of action at HBS. Friendly, outgoing, and at ease with fellow students, faculty, and administrators alike, Kemp... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry; photograph by Webb Chappell

01 Apr 2000
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The World at a Click

two-year-old, name-your-price discount site gaining fame of late with humorous ads featuring pitchman William Shatner. Both companies have grown rapidly since entering the online market, and with consolidation already under way... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelly

01 Mar 2024
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Turning Point: Eternal Returns

Louisa Wong (MBA 1981) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Louisa Wong (MBA 1981) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) I was born in the middle of Typhoon Gloria in 1957 and spent my early childhood in Kowloon’s Walled City, which at the time was an extremely poor and densely... View Details

Keywords: life experience; search firm; entrepreneurship

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