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J. Chadbourn Bolles
Under Bolles dynamic direction which spanned 34 years, Chadbourn grew from a small hosiery operation with $500,000 in annual sales to an international and diversified textile and apparel complex with $68... View Details
Keywords: Fabric & Apparel
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Amy Schiffman Langer (MBA '77)
In June, the School conferred its highest honors, the Distinguished Service Award and the Alumni Achievement Award, on four professors emeriti and five alumni, respectively. This is a profile of an Alumni... View Details
Michel C. Bergerac
Bergerac, however, is most known for the extensive diversification of Revlon into a health care products business. With the acquisition of companies in such areas as drugs, vision care, and medical... View Details
Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products
- spring 1991
- Article
Lessons from a Middle-Market LBO: The Case of O.M. Scott
By: George P. Baker and Karen Wruck
Baker, George P., and Karen Wruck. "Lessons from a Middle-Market LBO: The Case of O.M. Scott." Continental Bank Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 4, no. 1 (spring 1991).
- November 1984 (Revised December 1988)
- Case
Gulf Oil Corp.--Takeover
Gulf Oil was pressured into liquidation while under attack by Boone Pickens of Mesa Petroleum Co. Gulf management was unsure whether to sell out or take the firm private. A suitor, Standard Oil of California, tries to decide how much, if anything, to bid for the... View Details
Keywords: Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Bids and Bidding; Acquisition; Energy Sources; Energy Industry; United States
Rock, Kevin F. "Gulf Oil Corp.--Takeover." Harvard Business School Case 285-053, November 1984. (Revised December 1988.)
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
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
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Adam Kanner
the marketplace, balancing supply and demand. You don’t want to acquire customers unless you have products to offer them. So building an effective marketplace is key. How are you making that happen? Through customer View Details
- 05 Mar 2014
- What Do You Think?
When Will the Next Dot.com Bubble Burst?
acquisitions and the price paid per employee are once again fueling headlines. (A better yardstick might be price per user, which in the case of WhatsApp was about $40 for a service with no advertising View Details
Irving S. Shapiro
Initially making a name for himself in politics, Shapiro joined duPont in 1951 as a lawyer, handling some of its most important acquisitions and antitrust cases. His negotiating skills, coupled with his... View Details
Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial
Scott D. Cook
century. The success of Quicken was just the beginning. Cook and Intuit went on to launch a full suite of financial applications from on-line bill payment for individuals to inventory and account receivables... View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
- 07 May 2014
- News
Hopscotch Acquires Online School Supplies Retailer SkoolShop
Keywords: Retail Trade
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Action Plan: Happy Honey
Price: Building next-generation buzz for an essential—but often misunderstood—species. (photo by Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post/Getty Images) Like a hands-on chief executive who loads pallets and leads View Details
Keywords: Amy Rogers Nazarov
George H. Love
Love took control of his uncle’s struggling coal operation and built it into the largest and most successful coal mining operation in the US. Through a series of acquisitions... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture & Mining
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Books
practices — strategy, execution, culture, and organization — and at least two of the secondary practices — talent, leadership, innovation, and View Details
- 2020
- Working Paper
Draw Near to Go Far: The Role of Convergence in Capitalizing on Exploration
By: Carolyn Fu
Organizations are often advised to engage heavily in exploration in order to succeed – to cast a wide net for diverse solutions that are superior to what they currently exploit. However, what is the organization to do when the fruits of its exploration are inconsistent... View Details
Fu, Carolyn. "Draw Near to Go Far: The Role of Convergence in Capitalizing on Exploration." Working Paper, April 2020.
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U.S. Healthcare Strategy - Course Catalog
structured around key topics in business strategy, such as industry analysis, strategic positioning, and decisions regarding the boundaries of the firm (e.g. mergers and... View Details
- 08 Oct 2020
- News
Leader of Metro Named Canada's Outstanding CEO of the Year
- 29 Mar 2019
- News
Callaway Golf Takes a Swing at Outdoor Apparel
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Alumni Books
market capitalization. The book examines how misguided investment and acquisition strategies have created the paradox that, in media, the faster revenues grow, the worse their stocks perform. The Elements of... View Details
- 10 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Is Groupon Good for Retailers?
At first blush, the two-year-old online start-up Groupon seems a bit audacious. For starters, there's the news that the deal-of-the-day website turned down a $6 billion acquisition offer from Google last month. Then there's the company's... View Details