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  • 22 Apr 2019
  • Working Paper Summaries

Government Technology Policy, Social Value, and National Competitiveness

Keywords: by Frank Nagle
  • April 2006 (Revised April 2012)
  • Background Note

The Company Sale Process

By: William E. Fruhan Jr.
Lays out the steps, the timeline, and the process by which a company is sold. Focuses on the sale of companies with enterprise values greater than $100 million. These transactions are large enough to require the help of a financial adviser and attract both strategic... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Auctions; Bids and Bidding; Agreements and Arrangements; Sales
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  • July 2003 (Revised February 2004)
  • Background Note

M&A Legal Context: Hostile Takeovers

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin, Constance E. Bagley and James Quinn
Introduces students to the main tactical maneuvers used by hostile bidders, including bear hugs, proxy fights, tender offers, and toeholds. Also describes how, in the United States, tender offers are regulated by the federal government via the Williams Act. View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Cash; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Code Law; Bids and Bidding; United States
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  • July 2000
  • Case

Aerospace Technologies, Inc.

By: Paul M. Healy and Jacob Cohen
Ben Galil's privately held engineering consulting firm represents aerospace products manufacturers in Israeli government biddings. The company incurs expenses for years before getting paid. This case deals with the alternative methods for booking revenues and expenses... View Details
Keywords: Accrual Accounting; Accounting; Revenue; Cost; Business or Company Management; Profit; Engineering; Bids and Bidding; Government and Politics; Private Ownership; Consulting Industry; Israel
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  • 2009
  • Simulation

Finance Simulation: Blackstone/Celanese (Facilitator's Guide)

By: Nabil N. El-Hage, Timothy A. Luehrman and Heide Diener Abelli
Keywords: Bids and Bidding; Finance; Mergers and Acquisitions; Valuation; Leveraged Buyouts; Negotiation
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  • 18 Nov 2008
  • First Look

First Look: November 18, 2008

religious norms. We report on a field experiment that examines when auction participants will respond to an appeal to continue bidding for secular charitable causes. The results reveal that religious individuals are more likely than... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Apr 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Ideas, April 18

Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/817064-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 217-021 Bayer AG: Bidding to Win Merck's OTC Business Shortly after submitting their best and final offer to acquire Merck's Consumer... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Oct 2007
  • First Look

First Look: October 16, 2007

involved in a frantic bidding war for a proposed book on the life of cat Dewey, billed as the feline answer to the best-selling "Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog." Literary agent Peter McGuigan, who... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Jul 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11

enter the market for financial products using its exchange model. Purchase this case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/717517-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 717-518 Betfair (C) Prompted by a takeover bid from CVC, Betfair... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Jan 2010
  • First Look

First Look: January 5

this case: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/710002-PDF-ENG The Future of Iraq Project (B) Noel Maurer and Sogomon TarontsiHarvard Business School Case 710-016 The first round of bidding on the rights to develop Iraq's oil field did... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • June 2010 (Revised December 2013)
  • Case

Hang Lung Properties and the Chengdu Decision (A)

By: John D. Macomber, Michael Shih-Ta Chen and Keith Chi-Ho Wong
A residential real estate developer competes in a heated auction for a prime retail development site in the interior of China during the 2009 boom. Total project cost might be in excess of $1 billion U.S. for over 4,000,000 square feet of building. Hang Lung Properties... View Details
Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Decision Choices and Conditions; Investment Return; Geographic Location; Auctions; Bids and Bidding; Infrastructure; Valuation; Real Estate Industry; Chengdu
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  • 22 Dec 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 22

http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/810071-PDF-ENG Memo from Counsel: Antitrust Law and Customer Allocation Lynn S. Paine and Lara AdamsonsHarvard Business School Note 310-048 When do antitrust laws come into play in a bidding... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Apr 2008
  • First Look

First Look: April 8, 2008

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=608080 Bidding on Martha's Vineyard (A) Harvard Business School Case 908-044 To buy a desirable Martha's Vineyard property, Robert and Sally Franklin must craft a View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • July 2005
  • Article

Price Improvement in Dealership Markets

By: Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
Price improvement refers to the practice whereby dealers order executions that improve on quoted prices. Why are these improvements given? Standard thinking is that competition causes dealers to give better prices to customers with less information. This paper... View Details
Keywords: Price; Markets; Competition; Information; Customers; Negotiation; Mission and Purpose; Practice; Theory; Performance Improvement; Bids and Bidding; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
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  • 08 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 8

case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/811034-PDF-ENG Investcorp and the Moneybookers Bid Matthew Rhodes-Kropf and Carin-Isabel KnoopHarvard Business School Case 811-013 In January 2007, Hazem Ben-Gacem, managing director and co-head... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 15, 2007

inducing immediate execution of the order are functionally equivalent to bid and ask prices and can be solved for various transaction sizes to characterize the market maker's entire supply curve. We find considerable empirical support for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Nov 2002
  • Research & Ideas

From Lone Star to Team Player

good, but many times it is not. For example, in one study that I just completed with my co-author Martine Haas at Cornell University, we studied whether sales teams were successful in securing client bids and found that many times sales... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
  • 14 Feb 2007
  • Op-Ed

Tata-Corus: India’s New Steel Giant

industry, also had a sorry ending. So, it is perhaps worth reflecting why Tata-Corus might be different. I believe it will be. Here's why. First, CNOOC's bid collapsed amid Washington intrigue. The Chinese proved to be babes-in-the-wood... View Details
Keywords: by Tarun Khanna
  • 06 May 2008
  • First Look

First Look: May 6, 2008

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=708480 Cadbury Schweppes: Capturing Confectionery (A) Harvard Business School Case 708-453 In late 2002, global confectionery and beverage maker Cadbury Schweppes needed to decide whether or not to make an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Incentives and Operational Excellence

go to theaters and count the number of ticket stubs. Smarter Pricing A completely different interorganizational control problem was solved by the Fortune 500 medical supply distributor, Owens & Minor, Inc. According to Narayanan, medical supply businesses typically... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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