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- February 2021 (Revised June 2021)
- Case
Barbarians at the Gate or Turnaround Gurus? Private Equity and the Rise of the LBO
By: Tom Nicholas and John Masko
During the 1980s, leveraged buyouts (LBOs) and the private equity (PE) firms responsible for carrying them out revolutionized both investment and management in the U.S. Between 1980 and 1989, buyout activity in the U.S. surged from $1 billion per year to $60 billion.... View Details
Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Conglomerates; Restructuring; Borrowing and Debt; Private Equity; Bonds; Investment Return; Institutional Investing; Profit Sharing; Business History; Management Style; Private Ownership; Performance Effectiveness; Value Creation; Financial Services Industry; United States
Nicholas, Tom, and John Masko. "Barbarians at the Gate or Turnaround Gurus? Private Equity and the Rise of the LBO." Harvard Business School Case 821-016, February 2021. (Revised June 2021.)
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
Industry Author:Arthur Daemmrich Abstract Fiercely contested before, during, and since its passage, the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) will restructure the U.S. healthcare market if fully implemented in coming years. This article describes the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 6
Brookings Institution Press, 2011 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Read the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/asunderam/Economics_of_Housing_Finance_Reform_Brookings.pdf Negotiating with Iran: Cultural and Historical Insights... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Vanguard Corporation
In her new book SuperCorp, Rosabeth Moss Kanter argues that capitalism is near a crossroads. The old ways of doing business no longer work. Traditional leadership roles are breaking down. And the public is fed up with greedy executives and their View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
project's early stages. It would organize the interface with supporting institutions such as the World Bank and the UNDP, and with local business partners. And since the WDC would have NGO representation on its board, it would assure NGO... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 01 Aug 2018
- What Do You Think?
Are Free Trade and Free Markets Quaint Ideas From the Past?
businesses function alongside other institutions such as labor unions in an environment in which all are subservient to democratically elected governments. Are free trade and free markets quaint ideas from the past? What do you think?... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 May 2015
- What Do You Think?
Are You Ready for Personalized Predictive Analytics?
that some giant computers controlled by big corporations and institutions know better than they do about what they will be doing in (the) future and what they'll become They might turn into poor, weak machines themselves , abiding by what... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 22 Feb 2010
- Research & Ideas
Manager Visibility No Guarantee of Fixing Problems
the negatively performing hospitals engaged in low levels of activity, but one poorly performing hospital in particular caught Tucker's eye. This institution had high levels of activity when it came to gathering information and acting on... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Many U.S. Jobs Are ‘Offshorable’?
India. "The case raises an uncomfortable question: Why should Monitor pay a Harvard MBA top dollar to conduct business research in the United States while an Indian Institute of Management graduate could do the work just as effectively in... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 06 Sep 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mixing Students and Scientists in the Classroom
of quantum dots for cancer treatment that had been proposed by an outside sponsor. Along with a bunch of other highly qualified students, one of this team's members was a Dana-Farber Cancer Institute researcher. Within two weeks, the team... View Details
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Big Companies, Big Opportunities—Big Questions
away from anything but a majority position, Rodriguez said. Illiquid markets are also a turn-off for institutional investors. Only thirty-three companies in Latin America meet the minimum $5 million in daily trading volume most fund... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
The State of the Markets
(that total half the value of the U.S. market). "On the trading level," says Seifert, " we need a liquidity pool that gives us low-cost, cross-border access. To accomplish this, we are merging institutions and employing a... View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner
- 01 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational
to William Lever. After his death, the Overseas Committee became the institutional embodiment of this paternalistic oversight role. Philips too conformed to this model: the Philips family dominated the company's top management until well... View Details
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
of the design of crowdfunding platforms can therefore be understood as attempts to deal with attendant "free-rider" problems in motivating contributions. Reviewing institutional features of today's crowdfunding, we clarify that... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and... View Details
- 18 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Collective Genius’
making great films. No one voice dominated, as often happened at other studios. Another major shortcoming of the diagram in figure 1-1 is that it fails to convey how collaborative the process of making a CG film at Pixar actually was. Pixar View Details
- 13 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 13, 2010
More broadly, national attempts to comply with the provisions of the Kyoto Protocol present both governments and firms with significant challenges. The design of international institutions that will be useful for managing change after the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 3, 2008
Institutions on the Philippine Frontier Under American Rule, 1898-1918 Authors:Lakshmi Iyer, Noel Maurer Abstract Abstract We examine three reforms to property rights introduced by the United States in the Philippines in the early 20th... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 21, 2006
operating system for dealing with elective (largely surgical) patients. By opening an emergency room, however, the institution is now called upon to care for complex and highly variable medical patients. Asks if the previous operating... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Warring Algorithms Could Be Driving Up Consumer Prices
underlie pricing algorithms require revisiting as conditions change. To ensure that institutional knowledge is embedded in pricing algorithms, managers can also consider hybrid solutions that offer suggested prices, enabling quicker... View Details