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- 06 Sep 2016
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September 6, 2016
School Case 716-462 A Note on Activist Investors and the Tech Sector This short note provides background and data on the growing role of corporate activists, especially in high-technology industries. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
many people I could mentor. That’s what [Fitzhugh] devoted his life to, and that’s what still inspires many of us today.” “I think of Naylor Fitzhugh as an incredibly bright star and business innovator,” adds Tsedal Neeley, the chair’s current holder. “He was also an... View Details
- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
investors execute similar trades through the same broker, allowing them to capture returns that are twice as large as their normal trading performance. Similarly, we show that the clients of the broker employed by activist investors to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 22 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 22
capital market and regional development. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/411081-PDF-ENG Carl Icahn and Clorox Jay W. Lorsch and Kathleen DuranteHarvard Business School Case 412-078 This case outlines the takeover attempt by View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Sep 2018
- News
Moving Pictures
Hunt, based on Mohammed Al Samawi’s autobiography about how four Facebook friends managed to extract a young peace activist from war-torn Yemen. Who, not what: “One of my favorite assignments at McKinsey was working on a synthetic fabric... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
letter aloud to him. The black activist strongly urged the chief executive to keep it to himself. If he sent it, Douglass said, the missive would be interpreted “as a complete surrender of your anti-slavery policy, and do you serious... View Details
- 13 Mar 2018
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March 13, 2018
No abstract available. Purchase this case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/715035-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 118-076 Whole Foods and JANA Partners In 2017, JANA Partners decided to launch an activist campaign at... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 23, 2008
b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=609027 Kmart and ESL Investments (A) Harvard Business School Case 209-044 A major bankrupt retailer is poised to emerge from Chapter 11. Two activist hedge funds ("vulture investors") will own... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 18
this case: http://hbr.org/product/lufa-farms/an/514008-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 309-111 Dr. Benjamin Hooks and Children's Health Forum "Dr. Benjamin Hooks and Children's Health Forum" charts the many different career paths of Hooks, a civil right... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
deal because the offer is well below what Southeastern believes is Dell Inc.'s intrinsic value. Southeastern, along with activist investor Carl Icahn, wage a campaign to defeat the go-private deal and propose a leveraged recapitalization... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
people. I have been working with them for the last 70 years of my life,” says Bermek, who has worked as a human rights activist in the country and the region for the last twenty years after a long career in business. “We are not taking... View Details
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/317033-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 616-052 Nuclear Energy: An Answer to Climate Change? Environmental activist groups have traditionally opposed nuclear energy. However, the growing... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
elections. Overall, activists supporting the Parti Socialiste's candidate knocked on five million doors. Visits did not affect voter turnout but increased Hollande's vote share in the first round at the expense of his right-wing opponents... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 7
experiment to measure the value of shareholder proxy access. We find that firms that would have been most vulnerable to proxy access, as measured by institutional ownership and activist institutional ownership in particular, lost value on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
responsibility of individual firms. The authors call for business to be both innovator and activist in protecting and strengthening market capitalism. Instead of seeing themselves as narrowly self-interested players in a system that is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
prioritize different external pressures and thus adopt different management practices. Specifically, we argue that external constituents—including customers, regulators, legislators, local communities, and environmental activist... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
Oaxaca City, local activist Gustavo Esteva, a founder of the Universidad de la Tierra in Oaxaca, gave us a crash course in Zapotec culture, a way of life for the area’s indigenous people who first settled the Oaxaca valley thousands of... View Details
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The second half of the course applies the above framework to various contexts including equity-investment analysis, IPOs, mergers, short selling opportunities, and hedge fund activist investing strategies. Over the course of the semester,... View Details