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  • 1999
  • Other Unpublished Work

Estimating Industry Multiples

By: Malcolm Baker and R. S. Ruback
We analyze industry multiples for the S&P 500 in 1995. We use Gibbs sampling to estimate simultaneously the error specification and small sample minimum variance multiples for 22 industries. In addition, we consider the performance of four common multiples: the simple... View Details
Keywords: Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Performance; Mathematical Methods
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  • August 1988 (Revised July 1996)
  • Case

Colt Industries

Colt Industries is a conglomerate that is considering undertaking a leveraged recapitalization. The deal would involve a large one-time dividend to stockholders, which would be financed by over $1 billion in new debt. Unlike in an leveraged buyout, however, public... View Details
Keywords: Business Conglomerates; Equity; Economic Growth; Ownership Stake; Stocks; Borrowing and Debt; Employee Stock Ownership Plan; Financial Strategy
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  • November 2002 (Revised March 2010)
  • Case

The Newsprint Industry

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Nabil I. Al-Najjar and James Pyke
Describes the 1990s consolidation on the newsprint industry. Questions whether consolidation will ever deliver on its promise. Whereas some industry observers maintain that the effects of consolidation are already visible, others argue that further consolidation is... View Details
Keywords: Five Forces Framework; Duopoly and Oligopoly; Monopoly; Mathematical Methods; Competition; Consolidation; Pulp and Paper Industry
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  • September 2001 (Revised June 2005)
  • Case

Stevenson Industries (A)

By: John A. Davis and Kacie LaChapelle
Simon Carlson, chairman of the board of his family's fourth-generation industrial company, must decide how to deal with his conflict with the company's nonfamily CEO. Hired by the board just 15 months earlier to pursue growth more aggressively, CEO Paul Steel has upset... View Details
Keywords: Family Business; Management Succession; Management Style; Governing and Advisory Boards; Management Teams; Rank and Position; Organizational Culture; Decision Making; Manufacturing Industry
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  • May 1999 (Revised March 2001)
  • Case

Marshall Industries

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport
Confounding predictions that the Internet would "disintermediate" commerce, making "middle man" companies all but obsolete, Marshall Industries, a leading electronics distributor, used the Internet and digital technologies to reinvent itself. Marshall continued to sell... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Digital Platforms; Internet and the Web; Supply Chain; Emerging Markets; Customer Focus and Relationships; Distribution Industry; Distribution Industry
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  • July 1988 (Revised July 1989)
  • Case

Hygiene Industries

By: David E. Bell
Keywords: Health Industry
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  • January 1990 (Revised February 1994)
  • Case

Photolithography Industry

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  • Article

Pricing and Production Flexibility: An Empirical Analysis of the U.S. Automotive Industry

By: Antonio Moreno and Christian Terwiesch
We use a detailed data set from the U.S. auto industry spanning from 2002 to 2009 and a variety of econometric methods to characterize the relationship between the availability of production mix flexibility and firms’ use of responsive pricing. We find that production... View Details
Keywords: Empirical Operations Management; Flexibility; Pricing; Automotive Industry; Production; Price; Management; Analysis; Auto Industry; United States
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  • 2009
  • Other Unpublished Work

When Does Industrial Policy Work? Evidence from the Brazilian Ethanol Fuel Industry

By: Santiago Mingo and Tarun Khanna
What is the impact of a state-led industrial policy program on entrepreneurial activity, industry evolution, and firm competitiveness? How and when is industrial policy an effective tool to spur the development of an emerging industry? To address these questions, we... View Details
Keywords: Economic Growth; Entrepreneurship; Policy; Industry Growth; Business and Government Relations; Competition; Energy Industry; Brazil
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  • March 1989
  • Background Note

Industrial Distribution Systems

A comprehensive description of industrial distribution systems. Written from the perspective of industrial products manufacturers, concerned about building and managing channels systems for taking products from point of manufacture to point of use. Covers: 1) channels... View Details
Keywords: Distribution Channels; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry
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  • March 1989 (Revised October 1996)
  • Background Note

Industrial Marketing Strategy--An Overview

Provides an integrated discussion of the basic elements of industrial marketing strategy and develops a strategic marketing planning model. May be used as either an introductory or a summary reading for an industrial marketing course or course segment. View Details
Keywords: Marketing Strategy
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  • August 2015 (Revised July 2017)
  • Technical Note

Hotel Industry

By: Arthur I. Segel, Daniel Woodbury and Michael Horowitz
This note teaches the critical elements to understand the fundamentals of hotel investing, ownership, and management. It outlines the basics of hotel segmentation, operations, ownership, management, and valuation. The changing impact of technology is also addressed. View Details
Keywords: Business or Company Management; Investment; Ownership; Accommodations Industry
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  • November 1987 (Revised January 1988)
  • Case

Farmland Industries

By: Ray A. Goldberg
Keywords: Cooperative Ownership; Competitive Strategy; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry
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  • 2008
  • Dictionary Entry

Computer Industry

By: Shane Greenstein
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  • 1993
  • Chapter

Industrial Marketing

By: V. K. Rangan and B. Isaacson
Keywords: Marketing
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  • November 1993 (Revised July 1994)
  • Background Note

Industrial Marketing

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Bruce Isaacson
Keywords: Marketing
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  • December 1985 (Revised November 1987)
  • Case

Videogame Industry

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  • December 1983 (Revised January 1986)
  • Case

Galen Industries

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  • December 1979 (Revised April 1982)
  • Case

UV Industries

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  • July 1996 (Revised March 2000)
  • Case

Hobson Industries

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