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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
9/11, Jeff Immelt had already built an impressive nineteen-year career at GE in its plastics, appliance, and medical systems divisions. With revenues in 2007 of $173 billion and more than 300,000 global employees, GE has seen significant change under Immelt, including... View Details
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
School Case 217-018 Rose Electronics Distributing Company Itamar Frankenthal was evaluating bank loan proposals to finance his acquisition of Rose Electronics Distributing Company (“Rose”). He contacted 40 small and large banks that lent... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
G. GoldbergHarvard Business School Case 310-086 Oracle's proposed acquisition of Sun was on a fast track until the EC's antitrust concerns about open-source MySQL ignited a transatlantic war of words delaying the deal. Sun's performance... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
side. Addresses the prospects of the graphics function becoming integrated with the microprocessor on a single piece of silicon. AMD had just announced the acquisition of ATI and Paul Otellini, Intel's CEO, is faced with the question of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New News
going through the process of pricing discovery over time and optimizing for the best LTV to CAC [customer lifetime value to customer acquisition cost] ratio, which brings you to questions of scale. As of yesterday, we have over 8,000... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
topics including financing new ventures, deal structuring, valuation, initial public offerings, leveraged buyouts, and financial distress. "Entrepreneurial Finance looks at the acquisition and deployment of resources at each stage of the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
Chirchirillo was able to establish a foothold in China. That import model, however, was only intended to be an interim strategy to build a global capability, and in 2008, Chirchirillo purchased a precision metal-stamping company in McHenry, Illinois. “I view that View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
developed high-volume brands in its other consumer products, became one of the most important examples of this strategy .P&G’s acquisitions of Cover Girl and Max Factor had given the company a portfolio of beauty brands beyond toiletries... View Details
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
flow situation, should Owen reconsider the acquisition offer? Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/813036-PDF-ENG Friend Bank: The Time for Hope (Abridged) Clayton Rose and Aldo SesiaHarvard Business School Case 313-010 In 2010,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
what hasn’t? The four drives themselves, fundamental to human psychology, have not changed. The COVID-19 pandemic has not altered these dynamics as much as it has intensified or complicated them: Cost-cutting and remote work mean that both the View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 08 Jun 2018
- News
My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
wonderful 25-year career. The firm had been founded by three HBS graduates. At the time it had fewer than 20 people. When I joined I was the 25th. And the long story short is, I worked there for 25 years. Today that core, through many, many, many mergers and View Details
- 08 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
what hasn’t? The four drives themselves, fundamental to human psychology, have not changed. The COVID-19 pandemic has not altered these dynamics as much as it has intensified or complicated them: Cost-cutting and remote work mean that both the View Details
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
and advertising/media company Septeni—use GROW in very different ways to manage talent recruiting, screening, hiring, placement, and development. The case asks students to consider two questions: (1) Which of the three companies' approaches to using people analytics... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Research, April 4
development program for key managers of the company? Should DSM continue making moves in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) to complement organic growth, or could its growth goals be achieved by focusing on organic growth for now,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
becoming CEO of Slim Jim manufacturer GoodMark Foods, this book shares the stories and lessons learned of an ordinary man who achieved extraordinary success by believing in himself. Despite nearly losing his job at General Mills several times, he persevered. How he... View Details
- 12 Dec 2017
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New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
CEO of US Airways, would become CEO of the new American Airlines Group (AAL). The case describes a number of critical decisions Parker made and actions that he took in the course of the acquisition integration process. All focused on how... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
expand their firm internationally through the acquisition of various parts of Lehman Brothers, an insolvent global investment bank. In evaluating this opportunity, students must consider the complexities of such expansion, including the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
director Nadir Godrej (MBA ’76), who oversees business divisions in the areas of chemicals, foods, and medical diagnostics. More such acquisitions will take place in the future, he believes, as Godrej expands its worldwide distribution... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 22 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 22
misvaluation on merger and acquisition activity. Debt misvaluation helps explain the shifting dominance of financial acquirers (private equity firms) relative to strategic acquirers (operating companies). The effects of overvalued debt... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2022
- News
Leading to Salvation
president and CFO of Medtronic, overseeing a number of acquisitions and sales at the medical device company and broadening its reach to include a more global investor base. In this special edition of Skydeck honoring recipients of the... View Details