Publications

1993
Book

New and Improved: The Story of Mass Marketing in America

Keywords: Marketing Strategy; United States

November 1992 (Revised August 2001)
Case

Eskimo Pie Corporation

In early 1991, Reynolds Metals, the makers of aluminum products, decided to sell its holding of Eskimo Pie, a marketer of branded frozen novelties. Reynolds had an offer from Nestle to acquire Eskimo Pie. However, Reynolds decided instead to make an initial public... View Details

Keywords: Initial Public Offering; Decisions; Mergers and Acquisitions; Performance Productivity; Leadership; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Expansion; Ownership; Food and Beverage Industry; Manufacturing Industry

April 1992
Supplement

Levi Strauss & Co. and the AIDS Crisis, Video

By: Richard S. Tedlow

April 1992
Article

Does Corporate Performance Improve after Mergers?

By: Paul M. Healy, Krishna G. Palepu and Richard S. Ruback

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Performance; Business Ventures

January 1992
Teaching Note

Congoleum Corporation (Abridged) TN

Teaching Note for (9-287-029). View Details

Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Valuation; Equity; Manufacturing Industry

January 1992
Teaching Note

Gulf Oil Corporation-Takeover TN

Teaching Note for (9-285-053). View Details

Keywords: Privatization; Business Exit or Shutdown; Bids and Bidding; Natural Environment; Energy Industry

January 1992
Teaching Note

American Telephone and Telegraph Company (1983) TN

Teaching Note for (9-284-047). View Details

Keywords: Financing and Loans; Equity; Value; Management Practices and Processes; Decisions; Telecommunications Industry

January 1992
Teaching Note

MCI Communications Corporation (1983) TN

Teaching Note for (9-284-057). View Details

Keywords: Financing and Loans; Growth and Development Strategy; Debt Securities; Risk and Uncertainty; Monopoly; Communications Industry

January 1992
Teaching Note

O.M. Scott & Sons Company TN, The

Teaching Note for (9-209-102). View Details

1992
Article

Making Choices: Aspects of the History of the Harvard Business School MBA Program

By: Nancy F. Koehn, Thomas R. Piper, V. Kasturi Rangan and Richard S. Tedlow

Keywords: Higher Education; History; Decision Choices and Conditions; Boston

1991
Book

The Rise of the American Business Corporation

Keywords: Business History

November 1991 (Revised December 1993)
Case

Southland Corp. (C)

Examines pre-packaged bankruptcy of Southland. View Details

Keywords: Insolvency and Bankruptcy

November–December 1991
Article

The Case of AIDS

By: R. S. Tedlow and M. Marram

Keywords: Health Pandemics

1991
Chapter

The Rise of the American Business Corporation

Keywords: Business History; Business Ventures; United States

1991
Chapter

Advertising

Keywords: Advertising; Advertising Industry

July 1991
Case

Pioneer Petroleum Corp.

Pioneer is an integrated oil company. Its operations include exploration and development, production, transportation, and marketing. The case focuses on Pioneer's cost of capital calculations and its choice between a single company-wide cost of capital or divisional... View Details

Keywords: Cost of Capital; Energy Industry; Mining Industry

May 1991
Case

Fourth Phase of Marketing: Marketing History and the Business World Today

By: Richard S. Tedlow

Keywords: Marketing

April 1991 (Revised November 1997)
Case

Levi Strauss & Co. and the AIDS Crisis

By: Richard S. Tedlow

Keywords: Health Disorders; Employee Relationship Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Apparel and Accessories Industry

April 1991 (Revised July 1994)
Case

Southland Corp. (B)

Examines Southland's financial difficulties following the LBO in 1987 up to the first restructuring plan in July 1990. The teaching objectives are: to explore the complexities of a failed leverage buyout and the operating restrictions that result from financial... View Details

Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Restructuring; Equity; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Financing and Loans; Crisis Management