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  • 2020
  • Working Paper

The ESG-Innovation Disconnect: Evidence from Green Patenting

By: Lauren Cohen, Umit G. Gurun and Quoc H. Nguyen
No firm or sector of the global economy is untouched by innovation. In equilibrium, innovators will flock to (and innovation will occur where) the returns to innovative capital are the highest. In this paper, we document a strong empirical pattern in green patent... View Details
Keywords: ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; Investment; Decision Making; Policy; Energy; Green Technology; Technological Innovation; Patents
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  • March 2009
  • Article

Trade-offs in Staying Close: Corporate Decision Making and Geographic Dispersion

By: Augustin Landier, Vinay Nair and Julie Wulf
We document the role of geographic dispersion on corporate decision-making. Our findings include: (i) geographically dispersed firms are less employee friendly; (ii) dismissals of divisional employees are less common in divisions located closer to corporate... View Details
Keywords: Business Divisions; Business Headquarters; Decision Choices and Conditions; Geographic Location; Employees; Resignation and Termination; Retention
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  • 2020
  • Working Paper

Costly External Financing and Monetary Policy Transmission: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

By: Emily Williams
I provide new evidence that large and small banks have different external financing costs, which generates cross sectional variation in a deposits market pricing power channel of monetary policy transmission. I do so by exploiting a natural experiment using anti-trust... View Details
Keywords: External Financing; Monetary Policy Transmission; Experiment; Banks and Banking; Financing and Loans; Interest Rates
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  • November 2002 (Revised May 2003)
  • Case

ConAgra Foods

By: Ray A. Goldberg and Ingrid Vargas
In 2002, ConAgra Foods CEO Bruce Rohde was deliberating the next steps in the process of transforming the company from an agribusiness giant to a value-added food processor. ConAgra had become the second largest food company and number one food service supplier in the... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Strategy; Leading Change; Change Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Food; Agribusiness; Product; Business Processes; Management Teams; Expansion; Brands and Branding; Food and Beverage Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; United States
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  • April 2017 (Revised May 2017)
  • Case

GE Capital After the Crisis

By: John C. Coates, John D. Dionne and David S. Scharfstein
Keith Sherin, CEO of GE Capital, faced a decision on which hinged billions of dollars and the fate of one of America’s most storied companies. On his desk sat two secret analyses: Project Beacon, a proposal to spin off most of GE Capital to GE shareholders, and... View Details
Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Decision Choices and Conditions; Financial Institutions; Strategy
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  • January 2018
  • Case

Ak Gıda: IPO or Strategic Sale

By: Suraj Srinivasan and Eren Kuzucu
In 2015, Yıldiz Holding, one of the world’s largest producer of confections, biscuits and crackers, was at the end of its divestiture process from Ak Gida, one of the leading dairy companies in Turkey. The company had adopted a dual track process, pursuing an initial... View Details
Keywords: Valuation; Private Sector; For-Profit Firms; Business Model; Business Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Growth and Development Strategy; Value Creation; Decision Making; Growth Management; Mergers and Acquisitions; Initial Public Offering; Business Conglomerates; Business Exit or Shutdown; Family Business; Joint Ventures; Food and Beverage Industry; Turkey
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  • Web

Strategy - Doctoral

relationship between non-market experience and the use and outcome of patent strategies by pharmaceutical firms; the antecedents and consequences of corporate strategy decision-making, specifically focusing on divestitures and governance;... View Details

    Stanley C. Gault

    Taking the helm of the company his father helped to found, Gault was instrumental in reorganizing and revitalizing Rubbermaid from a small household gadget company into a streamlined and efficient multinational corporation. He embarked on a dual plan of View Details
    Keywords: Fabricated Goods

      John F. Welch, Jr.

      Though he had the full support of GE’s board, Welch’s first few years as CEO consisted of extensive cost cutting plans, some of which involved controversial divestitures of GE subsidiaries. Having successfully streamlined the company,... View Details
      Keywords: Fabricated Goods
      • 14 Jun 2018
      • News

      Dhivya Suryadevara Named GM’s Next CFO

      Photo courtesy of GM Photo courtesy of GM The CEO of General Motors, Mary Barra, recently announced that Dhivya Suryadevara (MBA 2003) will be named CFO. Fortune reported that as vice president of corporate finance, Suryadevara has been instrumental in GM’s View Details
      Keywords: Motor Vehicle and Parts Dealers; Retail Trade; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing
      • 01 Dec 2001
      • News

      BOOK: Creating Value through Corporate Restructuring

      proceeded when faced with multiple options. Those options — from mergers and acquisitions to leveraged buyouts and asset divestitures to "vulture" investing and tracking stock — are also explored. Gilson reminds readers that the devil is... View Details
      Keywords: Margie Kelley
      • 16 Feb 2004
      • Research & Ideas

      European Private Equity—Still a Teenager?

      restructuring opportunities or divestitures or even, more recently, public-to-privates. But I think increasingly what happens in our industry—and in Europe more recently than in the U.S. —is that private equity has become the long-term... View Details
      Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services
      • 01 Jan 2005
      • News

      Judith R. Haberkorn, 111th AMP, 1992

      crews who climbed poles. It was a tough, 24/7 business, but I loved it," she says. Haberkorn was an early leader in the entangled world of telecommunications and a pathbreaker for women in the field. After the 1984 divestiture of AT&T (an... View Details
      • 01 Jun 1999
      • News

      Q & A: Pat Russo - Focused on the Future at Lucent Technologies

      Fortune magazine's "Fifty Most Powerful Women in American Business." Why has Lucent performed so well since its divestiture from AT&T? We have been growing globally faster than our markets. Our ability to focus on the hottest growth... View Details
      • 16 Feb 2021
      • Research & Ideas

      To Fight Climate Change, Should Green Investors Reconsider Big Oil?

      doing this.’ But then you can get really inefficient allocation of capital, and that means we solve the problem slower.” Rather than exclusionary policies and divestiture campaigns motivated by preference, Cohen and his colleagues... View Details
      Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Energy
      • 01 Dec 2022
      • News

      December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

      Implementation By Emilie R. Feldman (MBA 2007 / DBA 2010) McGraw Hill Divestitures are among the hottest transactional structures today, but how much do you know about them? With this book, Wharton Professor Emilie R. Feldman provides a... View Details
      • Web

      Strategic Financial Analysis Online Course | HBS Online

      Divestiture Transformation’s Impact on Market Perception What’s in the Price? Featured Exercises Conduct a sum-of-the-parts analysis to understand a business spinoff’s viability Analyze the assumptions that justify changes to a company’s... View Details
      • 16 May 2017
      • First Look

      First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16

      designation. If the process took too long, or generated unexpected costs, a divestiture might destroy more value than it would create. Retaining GE Capital was risky, too, of course. Which set of risks was the right one to propose that... View Details
      Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
      • 10 Apr 2007
      • First Look

      First Look: April 10, 2007

      Kerr-McGee. They demand two board seats and ask the company to make several operational and financial changes, including the repurchase of equity and divestiture of their chemicals business. The case protagonist, Luke Corbett, CEO,... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • 26 Jun 2018
      • First Look

      New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018

      Sale In 2015, Yıldiz Holding, one of the world’s largest producer of confections, biscuits, and crackers, was at the end of its divestiture process from Ak Gıda, one of the leading dairy companies in Turkey. The company had adopted a dual... View Details
      Keywords: Dina Gerdeman