Publications

November 2015 (Revised March 2018)
Case

Air Products' Pursuit of Airgas (A)

By: Charles C.Y. Wang, Paul M. Healy, Penelope Rossano and Kyle Thomas

This case centers around the Air Products' hostile takeover attempt of Airgas in 2010. Air Products argued that its offer of a 38% premium is generous given Airgas' poor performance, which Air Products attributed to underperforming and entrenched managers at Airgas. On... View Details

Keywords: Acquisition; Business and Shareholder Relations; Industrial Products Industry; Energy Industry; Chemical Industry

Educators

winter 2000
Article

Control and Ownership during War and Occupation: The Da Sheng Corporation, 1937-1949

By: Elisabeth Koll

Keywords: Ownership; War; Business History; Business Ventures

March 2001 (Revised August 2001)
Exercise

Ginny's Restaurant: An Introduction to Capital Investment Valuation

An individual is considering the development of a new restaurant. To make the decision, she uses NPV analysis to determine whether she should undertake the investment, and, if so, the optimal size of the investment. View Details

Keywords: Valuation; Decision Making; Business Startups

December 1997 (Revised December 2013)
Case

CCBN.COM

By: William A. Sahlman

A new service is being developed to help investor-relations managers at public companies communicate with investors over the Internet. View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Service Operations; Internet

Educators

April 1979 (Revised November 1985)
Case

Kalamazoo Plant: Parts Division, Acme Motors

By: Wickham Skinner and Frank S. Leonard

Keywords: Factories, Labs, and Plants; Industrial Products Industry; Michigan

1997
Chapter

Lessons from a Middle-Market LBO: The Case of O.M. Scott

By: George P. Baker and Karen H. Wruck

Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts

1992
Chapter

Lessons from a Middle-Market LBO: The Case of O.M. Scott

By: George P. Baker and Karen H. Wruck

Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts

January 2021
Case

Digital Transformation 2.0: CEO Elie Girard at Atos

By: Tsedal Neeley and James Barnett

Elie Girard has taken the helm as CEO of Atos—multinational IT giant—to lead the company into the next era of digital transformation. Noticing that customers’ digital needs were evolving to become even more specialized and global in scope, he made a bold first step as... View Details

Keywords: Restructuring; Change; Leadership; Technology Industry

Educators

October 2013
Supplement

Advantage Partners: Dia Kanri (B)

By: Paul A. Gompers, Nobuo Sato and Akiko Kanno

This case presents the final decision and outcomes for the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Private Equity; LBO; Roll-up; Investment; Condominium Management; Leveraged Buyouts; Asia

July 1989 (Revised October 1992)
Case

Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.: MIS Reorganization (A)

As a part of the Management Information Services (MIS) Division's evolution, it was planned to distribute all systems development and applications (SD&S) activities and resources (assets and personnel) from the central MIS Division to the operating areas by October... View Details

Keywords: Restructuring; Decision Making

November 2005 (Revised May 2006)
Teaching Note

Valuing a Cross-Border LBO: Bidding on the Yell Group (TN)

By: Mihir A. Desai and Kathleen Luchs

Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts

2005
Other Unpublished Work

Enterprise Risk Management in Action

By: Anette Mikes

Keywords: Business Ventures; Risk Management

Read Now

summer 2003
Article

The Drivers of Market Efficiency in Revlon Transactions

By: Guhan Subramanian

Keywords: Performance Efficiency; Business Ventures; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry

Article

Corporate Culture and Market Orientation: Comparing Indian and Japanese Firms

By: R. Deshpande and J. U. Farley

Keywords: Markets; Business Ventures; Culture; India; Japan

summer 1994
Article

The Role of a Union in a Well-managed Company

By: D. Q. Mills

Keywords: Labor Unions; Business Ventures