Mergers and Acquisitions - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2024
News

Turning Point: Eternal Returns

Louisa Wong (MBA 1981) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Louisa Wong (MBA 1981) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) I was born in the middle of Typhoon Gloria in 1957 and spent my early childhood in Kowloon’s Walled City, which at the time was an extremely poor and densely... View Details

Keywords: life experience; search firm; entrepreneurship

March 2001
Case

Sime Darby Berhad (C): Responding to the Asian Crisis

By: Tarun Khanna and Danielle Melito Wu

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Acquisition; Business Conglomerates; Economy; Capital Markets; Emerging Markets; Business and Government Relations; Corporate Strategy; Value Creation; Financial Services Industry; Malaysia

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Educators

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24 Mar 2021
News

Five Years Ago, She Sold Her Health Tech Startup. Last Year, She Sold It Again, for $1.3 Billion

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

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Student Clubs | MBA

Christian Fellowship Club Basketball Coffee and Tea Club Conservative Club Consulting for Impact Club Crimson Parents D Democrats, Liberals, Progressives Club E Education Club Energy & Environment Club Entertainment & Media Club... View Details

12 May 2022
News

Turning a Moment into a Movement

first seat on a public board at Altimeter Growth Corporation, a special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC). Since launching in September 2020, the Board Challenge’s singular mission has been to increase the representation of Black... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

15 Jan 2020
News

The Business of Access

position at San Mateo–based Shelter Network, which needed her skills to research and implement its merger with another homelessness service provider, InnVision, in Santa Clara. InnVision’s business model was... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

01 Jun 2025
News

Alumni Achievement Awards 2025

Edited by Julia Hanna; photographs by Susan Young Award Recipients Video MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2025 recipients, and learn about past recipients. ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS SITE MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2025 recipients, and learn... View Details

Keywords: leadership; Alumni Achievement Awards

01 Jun 2017
News

Case Study: Something New

Anomalie offers brides a new way to buy a wedding dress—custom designed, online, and at a reasonable price. That makes the company, well, an anomaly in the $55 billion United States wedding industry, which is well known for its opaque... View Details

Keywords: April White

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About | Harvard Business School

About C. Ludens Ringnes Sculpture Collection The C. Ludens Ringnes Sculpture Collection was established in 2018 through the generosity of Christian Ringnes during the Harvard Business School Campaign. This gift supports two primary activities: the View Details

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

01 Dec 2006
News

The Hard Way

students to fill the remaining six floors. In relatively no time, Russo had turned a high-risk acquisition into a high-profile success. Her name now personified the company, and her determination propelled... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

July 2008
Teaching Note

Yale University Investments Office: August 2006 (TN)

By: Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon

Teaching Note for [807073]. View Details

Keywords: Investment Funds; Strategy; Cost vs Benefits; Resource Allocation; Decision Choices and Conditions; Venture Capital; Assets; Leveraged Buyouts

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Purchase

01 Jan 2004
News

A. G. Lafley, MBA 1977

Clairol in 2001 for $5 billion and Germany's Wella in 2003 for $7 billion—P&G's largest acquisitions ever—are already paying off by making the company's beauty-care division one of the most profitable... View Details

09 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Around the World of Entrepreneurial Ventures

complexity that is astonishing, said Sahlman. The International Context According to Kuemmerle, there is one central question guiding his IEF research: how do entrepreneurial managers, and those who finance them, make sensible resource... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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

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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

21 Nov 2024
News

Mother Nurture

was a big priority.” Since refining the model and establishing a team of clinicians, Seven Starling has been reaching and serving women via its primary acquisition channel of... View Details