Publications

01 Feb 2001
News

Q&A - Dirty Money: Raymond Baker Explores the Free Market's Demimonde

acquisition of small- and medium-sized companies, Baker first observed the corrosive effect of corruption. "I didn't come out of HBS equipped to deal with it," he recalls. "It was so harmful to the business... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Government

26 Sep 2024
Blog Post

Syngenta Tomato Vision

fruit virus. Founded in 2000 from the merger of the agrichemical units of Novartis and AstraZeneca, Syngenta is a provider of a broad range of agricultural science and... View Details

26 May 2016
News

W. James McNerney Jr., MBA 1975

find its way forward after a series of mergers and acquisitions, high-profile ethical missteps, and some tough business challenges. His job was to build on strengths,... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Air Transportation; Transportation

04 Sep 2019
News

In My Humble Opinion: Status Update

celebrities, developers, and news publishers. She also leads mergers and acquisitions. “Facebook’s mission is about giving people the power to build community View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Oct 1999
News

Four Promoted to Full Professor

activity in Europe and Asia and how managers can use restructuring techniques to help the stock market more accurately value their companies. Gilson, who was previously on the finance faculty at the... View Details

July 2001
Case

Regal Cinemas LBO (B)

By: Malcolm S. Salter and Daniel Green

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Corporate Governance; Failure

Web

HBS Art Program & Collections | Baker Library

HBS Art Program & Collections The art collections at HBS serve as a key teaching and learning resource for the HBS community and beyond. The collections are especially remarkable in terms of their... View Details

04 Sep 2019
News

A Wide Screen Approach

Immersive Media “The single largest revenue stream for sports in North America is media rights. The sports industry is slowly adapting to new formats and platforms, which is having an immediate impact on the View Details

14 Nov 2016
Op-Ed

5 Lessons I Hope Marketers Don’t Learn from Donald Trump

dreams of consumers, because a brand that’s built on such appeals will find it hard to grow to be a source of pride. Apparently misogyny, xenophobia, and contempt for the disabled have worked as customer View Details

Keywords: by John A. Deighton

June 1991 (Revised July 1993)
Case

Sunbeam Oster Co., Inc.

By: Steven R. Fenster

Japonica Partners, an investment firm, is trying to determine whether there is any unseen value in Sunbeam Oster Co., Inc., a Chapter 11 debtor. If there is, Japonica must consider the means by which they can acquire control of a company in Chapter 11. View Details

Keywords: Valuation; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Acquisition; Financial Services Industry

21 Nov 2024
News

Mother Nurture

Julia Cole, Tina Keshani, and Sophia Richter (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) When Tina Keshani (MBA 2020), Julia Cole (MBA 2020), and Sophia Richter (MBA 2020) met at Startup Boot Camp in their first year at HBS, they quickly discovered they shared a vision to create a... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Aug 2001
News

J. Ronald Fox (MBA '59)

resumed his academic career at HBS and completed the first of several influential books, Arming America, an exploration of the military weapons acquisition process. After leaving the faculty in 1972 to... View Details

Keywords: Alumni Achievement Award; J. Sterling Livingston; George P. Baker; Government

July 1999 (Revised December 2005)
Case

Quickturn Design Systems, Inc. (G)

By: Jay W. Lorsch and Katharina Pick

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Patents; Governing and Advisory Boards; Behavior; Lawsuits and Litigation; Organizations; Acquisition; Corporate Governance; Service Industry

Find at Harvard

01 Jun 2016
News

Taking Care of Business

recommended against producing sleepwear, now a highly popular line. Knock out! has been an acquisition target, but buyers always planned to offshore manufacturing—a nonstarter for the North Carolinian and... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

February 2002 (Revised February 2003)
Case

Argentina's Financial System: The Case of Banco de Galicia

By: Rafael M. Di Tella, Tarun Khanna, Huw Pill, Alexandra de Royere and Ingrid Vogel

Describes the development of Argentina's financial system after the "Tequila Crisis" that came about as a result of the speculative attack on the Mexican peso's peg to the U.S. dollar in December 1994. Although Argentina's banking system was strengthened overall due to... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Emerging Markets; Macroeconomics; Business Strategy; Banks and Banking; Financial Crisis; Family Business; Acquisition; Banking Industry; Argentina