Publications

25 Mar 2013
Research & Ideas

How Chapter 11 Saved the US Economy

its financial problems outside of bankruptcy court. One of the world's largest real-estate companies, Realogy was acquired in the spring of 2007 by the private equity firm Apollo Management in a $7 billion leveraged buyout. The buyout... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Financial Services

01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Five Questions for Stuart Gilson

strike many people as controversial. One would be the downsizing of Scott Paper Company under "Chainsaw" Al Dunlap, in which the company eliminated approximately a third of its workforce. Another would be the employee buyout of... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

July 1996
Case

Bayside Controls, Inc.

By: H. Kent Bowen, Jennifer Kochman and Sylvie Ryckebusch

Two recent MBA graduates acquire a small and ailing metal-machining company that had manufactured small aerospace components. Through clever application of state-of-the-art manufacturing, engineering, and marketing/sales concepts, they turned the company into a growing... View Details

Keywords: Business Earnings; Leveraged Buyouts; Machinery and Machining; Leading Change; Growth and Development Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Production; Personal Development and Career; Sales; Aerospace Industry

22 Jan 2013
First Look

First Look: Jan. 22

case:http://hbr.org/search/613006-PDF-ENG Harrah's Entertainment Gompers, Paul A., Kristin Mugford, and J. Daniel KimHarvard Business School Case 213-054 This case examines the issues of establishing a capital structure for the leveraged View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Dec 2011
First Look

First Look: Dec. 6

Sahlman, Joseph B. Lassiter, and Liz KindHarvard Business School Case 812-049 In the three years since Bishop and Button purchased Verengo in a leveraged buyout (LBO), the company had gone through dramatic changes. Initially a residential... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Jan 2015
First Look

First Look: January 20

Michelle Dipp, MD, Ph.D, CEO and co-founder of OvaScience, had just received a buyout offer from PG Ventures, a private equity firm interested in acquiring the innovative fertility treatments company. The company's first promising... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 May 2013
First Look

First Look: May 28

decide whether now is the time to sell his firm's investment in Tri-Northern Distribution. Brazos, a middle-market leveraged buyout group, created the company two years earlier through the acquisition of two electronic security... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 Mar 2008
First Look

First Look: March 11, 2008

the time; and (3) target shareholders receive approximately 5% higher returns through the pure go-shop process relative to the no-shop route. I also find no post-signing competition in go-shop management buyouts (MBOs), consistent with... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

14 Aug 2007
First Look

First Look: August 14, 2007

distinctly different strategy. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=706518 Kinder Morgan, Inc.-Management Buyout Harvard Business School Case 207-123 Kinder Morgan, Inc., was a leader in the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

13 Nov 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018

turnaround distressed companies. But as CD&R entered into its fifth decade and its largest fund to date (nearly $10 billion AUM), competition, AUMs, industry "dry powder," and buyout valuations were all on the rise. Within... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

27 Jan 2015
First Look

First Look: January 27

management of public schools, demonstrates the challenges and opportunities related to private sector involvement in the delivery of a public good. Follows the organization from its start-up through its initial public offering and, eventually, through its decision to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Feb 2007
First Look

First Look: February 6, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=806092 Endo Pharmaceuticals (A): From LBO to...? Harvard Business School Case 806-064 Endo Pharmaceuticals was formed in 1997 as a leveraged buyout spin-off from DuPont Merck.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

March 2003
Background Note

A Short Note on the AccuFlow Excel Model

By: Jay O. Light

Describes an Excel spreadsheet workbook that facilitates the analysis of AccuFlow, Inc. View Details

Keywords: History; Analytics and Data Science; Cost of Capital; Negotiation; Capital; Business Model; Economic Systems; Machinery and Machining; Leveraged Buyouts; Business Startups; Equity

18 Apr 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018

the industry and in China. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/909403 Harvard Business School Case 216-052 Bankruptcy at Caesars Entertainment Caesars Entertainment was a large casino operator in the United States that had been purchased in a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]

child-care services to a buyout fund focused on media properties. She began a conversation in her office in South Hall, now home to the business school's entrepreneurship and services faculty, by describing how "Starting New... View Details

Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg

22 Nov 2016
First Look

November 22, 2016

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/117106-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 917-003 The Management Buyout of Dell, Inc. No abstract available. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/917003-PDF-ENG View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Feb 2011
First Look

First Look: Feb. 23

Case 810-073 Iris Running Crane, an MBA candidate, must choose among three different job offers in private equity. One is with a top-tier megafund buyout operation; the second with a geographically focused mid-market fund; and the third... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

August 1999 (Revised February 2000)
Case

Cisco Systems, Inc.: Acquisition Integration for Manufacturing (A)

By: Steven C. Wheelwright, Charles A. Holloway, Nicole Tempest and Christian G. Kasper

Describes the procedures and processes used by Cisco Systems in its acquisition of high-technology firms. Its goal is to retain key engineering talent and to leverage existing product development efforts, but to quickly merge acquired companies its own systems and... View Details

Keywords: Information Technology; Leveraged Buyouts; Acquisition; Integration; Mergers and Acquisitions; Production; Activity Based Costing and Management; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Management; Technological Innovation; Talent and Talent Management; Human Resources; Manufacturing Industry; Technology Industry; England