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    Eric J. Van den Steen

    Eric Van den Steen is a Professor of Business Administration at HBS, where he teaches strategy. He holds the Roy Little chair, established in honor of the founder of Textron. 

    Professor Van den Steen's research studies the fundamentals of strategy and... View Details

    • 20 Feb 2013
    • News

    Office Depot-OfficeMax CEOs Face Off in Unorthodox Search

    • 17 Jan 2013
    • News

    Here, there and everywhere

    • April 1997
    • Case

    ABB Germany

    By: Hugo Uyterhoeven
    Describes Europe's most famous postwar multinational merger between Asea of Sweden and Brown Boveri of Switzerland. Gives background on both companies and focuses particularly on BBC's geographic organization, its corporate culture, and the relationship between its... View Details
    Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Multinational Firms and Management; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Goals and Objectives; Organizational Culture; Performance Improvement; Geographic Location; Rank and Position; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Sweden; Switzerland; Germany
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    Uyterhoeven, Hugo. "ABB Germany." Harvard Business School Case 397-096, April 1997.
    • 2007
    • Text Book

    Business Analysis and Valuation: Using Financial Statements

    By: Paul M. Healy and Krishna G. Palepu
    Financial statements are the basis for a wide range of business analysis. Managers, securities analysts, bankers, and consultants all use them to make business decisions. There is strong demand among business students for course materials that provide a framework for... View Details
    Keywords: Valuation; Framework; Decision Choices and Conditions; Financial Statements
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    Healy, Paul M., and Krishna G. Palepu. Business Analysis and Valuation: Using Financial Statements. 4th ed. Mason, OH: Thomson South-Western, 2007.
    • December 2004 (Revised July 2006)
    • Case

    Celtel International B.V.

    By: G. Felda Hardymon and Ann Leamon
    Mo Ibrahim, chairman of Celtel International, the largest provider of cellular services in sub-Saharan Africa, must decide on his company's future. After an amazing six years that took it from minority positions in three countries to nearly $1 billion in revenues and... View Details
    Keywords: Decisions; Initial Public Offering; Business Growth and Maturation; Mergers and Acquisitions; Entrepreneurship; Wireless Technology; Telecommunications Industry; Africa
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    Hardymon, G. Felda, and Ann Leamon. "Celtel International B.V." Harvard Business School Case 805-061, December 2004. (Revised July 2006.)
    • July 2017 (Revised July 2018)
    • Case

    Upwork: Creating the Human Cloud

    By: Dylan Minor and David Yoffie
    Stephane Kasriel, the new CEO of Upwork, the leading platform for freelance labor, needs to decide on how to redesign its business model. While the firm has been growing rapidly since the merger of Odesk and eLance, the newly combined firm continues to face problems of... View Details
    Keywords: Strategy; Platform; Platform Businesses; Technology; Business Model; Digital Platforms; Growth and Development Strategy; Internet and the Web; Labor
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    Minor, Dylan, and David Yoffie. "Upwork: Creating the Human Cloud." Harvard Business School Case 718-402, July 2017. (Revised July 2018.)
    • 18 May 2012
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    Surf's up

    • 19 Aug 2019
    • Blog Post

    Investing in Breakthrough Technologies to Lead the Energy Transition

    technologies (e.g. renewables, electric utilities, low carbon intensity biofuels). This inspired me to join the Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) group at Shell, from where I have been able to invest in the types of cutting-edge... View Details
    Keywords: Manufacturing; Technology
    • October 2013
    • Case

    Advantage Partners: Dia Kanri (A)

    By: Paul A. Gompers, Nobuo Sato and Akiko Kanno
    This case explores the opportunity to purchase the condominium management business of a distressed real estate developer by Advantage Partners, a leading Japanese private equity firm. The case explores investment structuring, bidding strategy, and the ability of... View Details
    Keywords: Private Equity; LBO; Roll-up; Investment; Financing; Condominium Management; Leveraged Buyouts; Asia
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    Gompers, Paul A., Nobuo Sato, and Akiko Kanno. "Advantage Partners: Dia Kanri (A)." Harvard Business School Case 214-016, October 2013.

      Case Problems in Finance

      The leading volume of finance cases used worldwide, Case Problems in Finance presents real business situations that pose debatable alternative courses of action. The cases contain problems that can be narrowed but not always settled by the usual techniques... View Details

      • April 1993 (Revised September 1996)
      • Case

      ABB Deutschland (A)

      By: Hugo Uyterhoeven
      Describes Europe's most famous postwar multinational merger between Asea of Sweden and Brown Boveri of Switzerland. Gives background on both companies and focuses particularly on BBC's geographic organization, its corporate culture, and the relationship between its... View Details
      Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Subsidiaries; Corporate Governance; Organizational Culture; Problems and Challenges; Relationships; Behavior; Business Strategy; Sweden; Switzerland
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      Uyterhoeven, Hugo. "ABB Deutschland (A)." Harvard Business School Case 393-130, April 1993. (Revised September 1996.)
      • July 2015
      • Exercise

      An Activist Approach: Confidential Role Assignment for Castle Rock Management

      By: Guhan Subramanian and Kait Szydlowski
      A three party, multiple-issue negotiation exercise dealing with a potential merger between two leading department stores, called for by an activist investor hedge fund in a letter to both companies. Company management will now attempt to navigate next moves, which are... View Details
      Keywords: Negotiation; Activist Investors; Takeover Defense; Negotiation Types; Mergers and Acquisitions; Corporate Governance; Investment Activism; Retail Industry
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      Subramanian, Guhan, and Kait Szydlowski. "An Activist Approach: Confidential Role Assignment for Castle Rock Management." Harvard Business School Exercise 916-012, July 2015.
      • 2009
      • Simulation

      Finance Simulation: M&A in Wine Country: No. 3289.

      By: Timothy A. Luehrman and W. Carl Kester
      In this simulation, students play the role of CEO at one of three publicly-traded wine producers: Starshine, Bel Vino, or International Beverage. Each player evaluates merger and/or acquisition opportunities among the three companies and then determines reservation... View Details
      Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Negotiation; Valuation; Value Creation; Food and Beverage Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry
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      Luehrman, Timothy A., and W. Carl Kester. "Finance Simulation: M&A in Wine Country: No. 3289." Simulation and Teaching Note. Watertown, MA: Harvard Business Publishing, 2009. Electronic.
      • January 2024 (Revised May 2024)
      • Case

      Generation Investment Management

      By: Vikram S. Gandhi, Michael Norris and David Allen
      In September 2021, the sustainable investment firm Generation Investment Management (Generation) considered whether to add Schneider Electric to the focus list of companies in which it was prepared to invest. Dedicated to promoting a sustainable world through its... View Details
      Keywords: Sustainable Investing; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Governance; Private Equity; Public Equity; Financial Markets; Investment Return; Investment Activism; Investment Funds; Investment Portfolio; Institutional Investing; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Financial Services Industry; United Kingdom; England; London
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      Gandhi, Vikram S., Michael Norris, and David Allen. "Generation Investment Management: Sustainable Investing in a Warming World." Harvard Business School Case 324-043, January 2024. (Revised May 2024.)
      • September 2002 (Revised March 2003)
      • Technical Note

      Technical Note on Equity-Linked Consideration, Part 1: All-Stock Deals

      By: Carliss Y. Baldwin
      What the acquiring company pays for a target in a merger or acquisition is called "consideration." Consideration can be in the form of cash, shares, or a combination of cash and shares. During the 1990s, equity-linked consideration became the dominant method of payment... View Details
      Keywords: Price; Acquisition; Business and Shareholder Relations
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      Baldwin, Carliss Y. "Technical Note on Equity-Linked Consideration, Part 1: All-Stock Deals." Harvard Business School Technical Note 903-027, September 2002. (Revised March 2003.)
      • October 2007
      • Article

      The Influence of Financial Statement Recognition and Analyst Coverage on the Market's Valuation of R&D Capital

      By: Michael D. Kimbrough
      Statement of Financial Accounting Standards 141 (SFAS No. 141)'s requirement that an acquirer in a business combination estimate the fair value of the target's separately identifiable assets and liabilities (including research and development capital) provides a rare... View Details
      Keywords: Information; Value Creation; Fair Value Accounting; Research and Development; Financial Statements; Capital
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      Kimbrough, Michael D. "The Influence of Financial Statement Recognition and Analyst Coverage on the Market's Valuation of R&D Capital." Accounting Review 82, no. 5 (October 2007): 1195–1225.
      • April 2020
      • Article

      Technological Leadership (de)Concentration: Causes in Information and Communication Technology Equipment

      By: Yasin Ozcan and Shane Greenstein
      Using patent data from 1976 to 2010 as indicators of inventive activity, we determine the concentration level of where inventive ideas originate and then examine how and why those concentrations change over time. The analysis finds pervasive deconcentration in every... View Details
      Keywords: Deconcentration; Technological Innovation; Innovation Leadership; Patents; Market Entry and Exit; Telecommunications Industry
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      Ozcan, Yasin, and Shane Greenstein. "Technological Leadership (de)Concentration: Causes in Information and Communication Technology Equipment." Industrial and Corporate Change 29, no. 2 (April 2020): 241–263. (Winner of the Industry Studies Association 2021 Ralph Gomory Award for Best Paper.)
      • December 1998
      • Case

      Bell Atlantic and the Union City Schools (A): The Intelligent Network

      By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Ellen Pruyne
      The first in a five-part series about Bell Atlantic Corp.'s technology-in-education partnership with the Union City, New Jersey school system. Provides an overview of the telecommunications industry in general and Bell Atlantic in particular, with special attention to... View Details
      Keywords: Mobile and Wireless Technology; Strategic Planning; Change Management; Leadership Development; Horizontal Integration; Partners and Partnerships; Trends; Education; Technological Innovation; Telecommunications Industry; New Jersey
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      Kanter, Rosabeth M., and Ellen Pruyne. "Bell Atlantic and the Union City Schools (A): The Intelligent Network." Harvard Business School Case 399-029, December 1998.
      • January 2008
      • Article

      The Five Competitive Forces That Shape Strategy

      By: Michael E. Porter
      This article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. In 1979, a young associate professor at Harvard Business School published his first... View Details
      Keywords: Profit; Five Forces Framework; Industry Growth; Industry Structures; Business and Government Relations; Competitive Strategy
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      Porter, Michael E. "The Five Competitive Forces That Shape Strategy." Special Issue on HBS Centennial. Harvard Business Review 86, no. 1 (January 2008): 78–93.
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