Spinoffs - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Jan 2014
News

Red Lobster and the Brand Envy Dilemma

July 1999
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Corbin Motors

By: John A. Davis

Explores the raising of capital to finance the growth of a spinoff business from Corbin-Pacific, a leader in motorcycle accessories. Also explores whether the culture of Corbin-Pacific can be infused in this new but very different kind of business. Finally, it asks the... View Details

Keywords: Family Business; Capital; Governance Controls; Organizational Culture; Problems and Challenges

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January 1998 (Revised May 1999)
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General Scanning, Inc. (B)

By: H. Kent Bowen, Sean McClenaghan and Charles Tillen

After meeting with a mediator, Montagu and Davis decided their goals were not in accordance, and Davis left General Scanning. Montagu and Brosens wrote three-year objectives for the company and proceeded to search for a new professional manager. Chuck Winston took on... View Details

Keywords: Business Units; Restructuring; Change; Business or Company Management; Ownership Stake; Strategic Planning; Hardware

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Recruiting specialized inventors into young organizations

Commercializing nascent technologies may require the expertise of those intimately involved in the original invention, especially when tacit knowledge is essential. Yet the organization home to the original invention may not serve as the best commercialization... View Details

04 Apr 2023
Book

Two Centuries of Business Leaders Who Took a Stand on Social Issues

While shareholders still reign supreme at many companies, a widespread shift toward more responsible business practices is driving more leaders to take a stand on social and environmental issues today, says Harvard Business School Professor Geoffrey Jones. Jones... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Consumer Products; Fashion; Retail; Green Technology

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Mergers & Acquisitions: deal type

How can I find deals of specific types, such as spinoffs or LBOs? Capital IQ Select Screening and click Transactions In section, General Transaction Details (on the right) select features. Select from the available types,... View Details

01 Dec 1997
News

Arthur Rock (MBA '51)

fortune on the venture. With a simple handshake between the two, northern California was changed forever - Fairchild Semiconductor, the first company to work solely in silicon, was born. Later, several spinoffs would emerge, including,... View Details

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Strategic Financial Analysis Online Course | HBS Online

motivations behind and value created by business transformations and spinoffs, identify spinoff strategies, and gain insights into managing chief executive officer and chief financial officer relationships with investors and the financial... View Details

15 Mar 2021
Blog Post

Be Unapologetically Yourself: Interview with Singer-Songwriter and Banking Strategist Andrea Mendoza

talents within the business world, Mendoza joined the HBS A cappella group, Heard on the Street, and the HBS Sound Society, a spinoff of the Entertainment Media Club focused on the music industry, which gave her more opportunities to... View Details

01 Apr 1999
News

A Vibrant Brand

"The moment you think that you dictate what is hot is the moment you lose your cool." Blazing New Territory "Pigeonholing Vibe as a hip-hop magazine is the rough equivalent of calling Sports Illustrated a basketball magazine," explains publisher Keith Clinkscales, who... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

04 Feb 2015
What Do You Think?

Is There a Stanford-Google-Silicon Valley School of Management?

What do you think? Original Article During graduate school at Stanford University, I participated in a Sloan Program, a spinoff of a program begun at M.I.T. Now I will really date myself. In those days it was a custom in the program for... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

16 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

European Private Equity—Still a Teenager?

underserved markets, the panelists said. Public markets are "anemic" for small and mid caps, so the exit question is more difficult to analyze than in the U.S., said Walid Serge Sarkis (HBS MBA '97), a principal in Bain Capital, a View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

18 Apr 2017
First Look

First Look at New Ideas, April 18

political economy implications of such transactions. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/217050-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 717-464 Danaher Corporation, 2007–2017 On July 2, 2016, Danaher Corporation completed the View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

08 Jun 2010
First Look

First Look: June 8

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-103.pdf Do Analysts Add Value? Evidence from Corporate Spinoffs Authors:Emilie Feldman, Stuart Gilson, and Belén Villalonga Abstract We investigate the information content and forecast accuracy of 1,793... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

15 Jan 2013
First Look

First Look: January 15

http://wber.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2012/12/09/wber.lhs031.short?rss=1 Do Analysts Add Value When They Most Can? Evidence from Corporate Spinoffs Authors:Feldman, Emilie R., Stuart C. Gilson, and Belén Villalonga... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2023
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March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books

the inside, in their hearts and minds, they are all just like you and me. The Island of the Fours Ps: A Modern Fable About Preparing for Your Future By Ed Hajim (MBA 1964) Skyhorse The Island of the Four Ps, a spinoff of Ed Hajim’s... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Dec 2012
News

From Where We Stand

incredible turnaround in rebuilding the leadership team, making strategic acquisitions and divestitures, and most recently, guiding the spinoff of the North American Food Group from the international global snacking business, Mondelez.... View Details

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