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- 09 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 9, 2010
restructuring in pillar industries and its effect on industry structures. In the petrochemical industry, the shift toward greater horizontal consolidation and vertical integration reduces the collective action problems associated with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
due to partial family ownership and a consolidating market for industrial gases. Aiming to make Messer Griesheim a more attractive potential acquisition, Messer Griesheim management had drawn up a restructuring plan as early as 2000. By... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 18
case puts special emphasis on the strategic drivers for business consolidation and combination in an environment of increased competition, trends toward self-indexation, and growth of indexing at a global scale. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
economies to land politics. Dalian, benefitting from early access to foreign capital, consolidated control over urban territory through the designation of a development zone, which realigned local economic interests and introduced dual... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
administrative aberration indicating weak state control, while others see it as a strategy for consolidating authority. This essay traces the historical development of iq ā and ijārah, two Perso-Arabic terms frequently translated from the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
consolidated into a single constraint. This helps to avoid a distortionary situation where different constraints bind for different banks performing the same activity. Second, while a regulatory framework that relies primarily on minimum... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 8
consolidated and centralized all key functions, while their "My Macy's" initiative focused on customizing the offerings of individual stores to local markets. By 2011, Macy's had many advantages, including an energized, highly... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 6
fully realized and are stronger in mature, slow growth industries. Prices do not fall, however, when the acquirer is diversifying into a new product market. This direct evidence of real changes induced by merger activity is consistent with View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
HBS Center Focuses on Europe
here. In 2004, we also expect mergers and acquisitions activity to heat up as many industries are consolidating on a European or global basis. Industries that we are watching include airlines, pharma, and financial services. Q: What roles... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
of $191 million. Media entrepreneur L. Lowry Mays (MBA 1962) had built Clear Channel through a concerted campaign of acquisitions over 30 years by consolidating fragmented media businesses, delighting shareholders in the process. But... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
of several state-owned enterprises, part of a broad policy effort in China to streamline state assets, consolidate the fragmented pharmaceutical sector, and enhance the global competitiveness of domestic firms. As it competed with other... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Competition the Cure for Healthcare
destroy value by adding administrative costs and leads to structures involving health plans and providers and other actors, which are misaligned with patient value. In a world of zero-sum competition, for example, providers will View Details
- 05 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 5, 2016
foods, leading to consolidation and causing sales to decline in 2010. With 150 years' experience in the industry, Nestlé had transformed into a nutrition, health, and wellness company and made its CSV strategy explicit in the early 21st... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business
the SEC partially regulates peer-to-peer lending, and state banking laws apply, but the online small business lending sector is largely unregulated at the federal level. Should borrower and lender protections be consolidated under a... View Details
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
(2006-2011) of distribution rationalization and consolidation at Ford. The financial crisis in the second half of 2008 forced GM and Chrysler into bankruptcy. Having completed the distribution overhaul work by 2011, its senior managers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
Documents progress, including organizational efficiencies gained that include consolidation of health care facilities, and illuminates leadership actions that facilitate this progress. Clearly, many challenges still lie ahead. Near the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
These structures determine a firm's motivation to seek protection, as well as its capacity to overcome collective action problems within its industry. In the petrochemical industry, the shift toward greater horizontal consolidation and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018
especially on key bottleneck links, in the face of unbalanced traffic. To address the issue Ekol developed a consolidation center in Turkey and a cross-dock deconsolidation center in Germany, its largest market. As Chairman Ahmet Musul... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
112-105 A simple consolidation exercise. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/112105-PDF-ENG Capitalizing for the Future: HSBC in 2010 Anette Mikes and Dominique HamelHarvard Business School Case 112-097 Following the financial crisis... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- November 2020 (Revised April 2021)
- Case
Roll-Ups and Surprise Billing: Collisions at the Intersection of Private Equity and Patient Care
By: Trevor Fetter and Kira Seiger
This case describes the increasing investment by private equity (PE) firms in patient care and other healthcare services. The case focuses on investments in physician staffing firms and roll-up strategy investments in physician practice management (PPM). Included in... View Details
Keywords: Business Ventures; Acquisition; Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Model; Change; Disruption; Fluctuation; Trends; Customers; Customer Value and Value Chain; Ethics; Fairness; Finance; Equity; Insurance; Private Equity; Geography; Geographic Scope; Health; Health Care and Treatment; Markets; Demand and Consumers; Supply and Industry; Industry Structures; Ownership; Ownership Type; Private Ownership; Relationships; Agency Theory; Business and Community Relations; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Networks; Strategy; Competition; Consolidation; Expansion; Integration; Horizontal Integration; Vertical Integration; Value; Value Creation; Health Industry; Insurance Industry; United States
Fetter, Trevor, and Kira Seiger. "Roll-Ups and Surprise Billing: Collisions at the Intersection of Private Equity and Patient Care." Harvard Business School Case 321-049, November 2020. (Revised April 2021.)