Mergers and Acquisitions - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

The Big Money for Big Projects

conditions over the past few years, but not nearly to the extent that other financing vehicles such as venture capital or other financial transactions such as mergers and View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

01 Dec 1999
News

South Africa's Lucille Meyer: Shaping a Practical Presidency

deliver everyday tangible results. To that end, Meyer, deputy director general for The Private Office, has guided Mbeki's merger of the president and deputy president offices to form the Office of the... View Details

Keywords: Morgan Baker

Charles W. Moritz

Moritz took the helm of D&B just after it had acquired the major market research firm, A. C. Nielsen. Moritz led the successful integration of D&B’s largest acquisition and established a pattern of... View Details

Keywords: Services

Fast Answer

Resources for Harvard Economics Students

deal database provides detailed information on new issues, mergers and acquisitions, syndicated loans, and more for the global financial marketplace. Which databases... View Details

1998
Chapter

A Theory of the Firm's Knowledge-Creation Dynamics

By: Ikujiro Nonaka and Hirotaka Takeuchi

Keywords: Creativity; Knowledge Acquisition; Knowledge Management; Business Ventures; Organizational Design

Citation

houses) including the 1986 pivotal acquisition of American Broadcasting Company, Murphy built a communications giant known for tight financial control and strong, lean management. View Details

Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media

Edward G. Jefferson

requirements. Though deemed expensive at the time ($7.3 billion), the Conoco acquisition was instrumental in securing duPont’s growth and positioning the company for the future. View Details

Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial

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

Profile

Evan Rachlin

New therapies, especially those in biotechnology, are very exciting to Evan Rachlin. In his first business-related internship, Evan examined the economic side of life science at Pfizer in New York City. There, he cooperated with the portfolio View Details

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

January 2023
Teaching Note

MicroStrategy’s Investment in Bitcoin

By: C. Fritz Foley, Celine Chammas and Donal O'Cofaigh

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 222-048. View Details

Keywords: Bitcoin; Corporate Strategy; Acquisition; Investment Portfolio; Capital Structure; Equity

Citation

Purchase

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

16 May 2017
News

Facing the Board

startup than an asset management firm. BlackRock, she said, was about “performance and collaboration in a real way.” Bill Gluck (MBA 1970), managing director of the Farmington Group, countered, saying BlackRock could use the View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers; photos by Susan Young; Blackrock; The Boardroom

01 Dec 2000
News

Q&A: Andrew Kendall

committed to maintaining it forever. Over time, that cost will far exceed the acquisition price. We've got to be ready to invest significant resources to endow the preservation of these properties so that my successor, View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

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

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg; Margie Kelley; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

07 May 2014
News

Hopscotch Acquires Online School Supplies Retailer SkoolShop

Keywords: Retail Trade

Profile

Gerald Chertavian

in New York City, where he volunteered as a mentor to 10-year-old David Heredia. Seeing the divide between Heredia’s potential and his prospects, Chertavian was determined to help expand options for Heredia View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government; Entrepreneurship; Services

10 Jan 2014
News

Year of the Business Remix

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

28 May 2019
News

Ask the Expert: In Security

says. Companies are inherently vulnerable to cyberattacks because the very processes that enable growth also expose vulnerabilities. Mergers and acquisitions, for example, create confusion between converging... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; cybersecurity

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