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  • 18 Aug 2009
  • First Look

First Look: August 18

http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/609016-PDF-ENG Dharavi: Developing Asia's Largest Slum Harvard Business School Case 710-004 Maharashtra state is accepting bids to redevelop Dharavi, the largest slum in Asia. A real estate developer... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 12, 2007

sell the company. Six months have passed since Ligand began soliciting bidders, but no buyer has emerged. With the sale of the company appearing to have stalled, Third Point has to decide whether to restart the bidding process, hold onto... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 15

case concerns the negotiations of a deal by HgCapital, a UK-based private equity firm, to buy Visma, ASA, a Norwegian software company. Visma has received an offer from Sage Group, a strategic acquirer. HgCapital must determine if it wants to View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 20 Aug 2012
  • Research & Ideas

The Acquirers

M&A research examined topics such as how structured credit impacted the buyout boom and bidding strategies of private equity firms, little focus had been placed on the competition between acquiring companies themselves. In earlier... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Financial Services
  • 31 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 31, 2009

opportunity to bid for debt and equity claims on Plascar Industria e Comercio Ltda., the Brazilian subsidiary of the bankrupt global auto components company Collins & Aikman Corp. In evaluating this opportunity, students must analyze... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Nov 1999
  • Research & Ideas

What’s Your Strategy for Managing Knowledge?

Ernst & Young. Love was preparing an important bid for a large industrial manufacturer that needed help installing an enterprise resource planning system. He had already directed projects for implementing information systems for... View Details
Keywords: by Morten T. Hansen, Nitin Nohria & Thomas Tierney; Consulting
  • 07 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 7, 2007

the auction of Cable & Wireless America (CWA), a bankrupt subsidiary of the British telecommunications company Cable & Wireless. While an initial "stalking-horse" bid valued the assets at $125 million, after a long day... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 29

the CEO of the African Capital Alliance (ACA), a private equity firm based in Nigeria. ACA has spent more than a year arranging a $500 million consortium bid to acquire and recapitalize Union Bank, Nigeria's sixth largest bank. Several... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • December 2004
  • Article

Market Valuation and Merger Waves

By: Matthew Rhodes-Kropf and S. Viswanathan
Does valuation affect mergers? Data suggest that periods of stock merger activity are correlated with high market valuations. The naïve explanation that overvalued bidders wish to use stock is incomplete because targets should not be eager to accept stock. However, we... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Valuation; Market Transactions; Value; Cash; Stocks; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Bids and Bidding; Market Design; Stock Shares; Accounting Audits; Performance Evaluation
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  • 04 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 4, 2007

real and sustainable; to decide how low a company must bid in order to win a competitive contract from a rival; to identify opportunities for internal cost reduction; to estimate, in the context of an acquisition, how much the costs of an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Aug 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Faculty Research Looks to Latin America

FDI are raising concerns that there might be bidding wars: This means governments throwing a lot of money to foreign investors. This weakens corporate finances and can also start the reallocation of resources. "Is Brazil as a country... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 13 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 13, 2009

  Working PapersCPC/CPA Hybrid Bidding in a Second Price Auction Authors:Benjamin Edelman and Hoan Soo Lee Abstract We develop a model of online advertising in which each advertiser chooses from multiple advertising measurement... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 20

an appeal to continue bidding for secular charitable causes. The results reveal that religious individuals are more likely than non-religious individuals to respond to an appeal for charity only on days that they visit their place of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 May 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Has Occupational Licensing Outlived Its Usefulness?

needs help from an electrician, they can post their request on this platform, and receive bids from available electricians. The consumer can then choose to hire one of these professionals. This online platform is an ideal setting because... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Service
  • August 2022
  • Case

SuperRare: Turning an NFT Marketplace into a DAO

By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang, Scott Duke Kominers and Amy Klopfenstein
In June 2021, John Crain and Jonathan Perkins, the founders of SuperRare, a marketplace for non-fungible tokens (NFTs), contemplate whether to transform their company into a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO). Crain and Perkins founded SuperRare in 2018 to... View Details
Keywords: NFTs; Crypto Economy; Alternative Assets; DAOs; Arts; Governance; Governance Controls; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Information Technology; Technology Adoption; Internet and the Web; Digital Platforms; Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation; Disruptive Innovation; Finance; Currency; Investment; Markets; Auctions; Bids and Bidding; Demand and Consumers; Network Effects; Market Design; Market Transactions; Market Timing; Web Services Industry; North and Central America; United States
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  • 14 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 14, 2007

to accept Kinder's offer and assess the fairness of the proposal, given the conflicts of interest in this management buyout. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=207123 Nordic Telephone Company's View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Oct 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Fearing Fox News, Democratic-leaning Companies Delayed Negative Announcements

individual contracts with each town or city they serve, after bidding against other cable providers for the chance to do so. They then, in turn, receive fees from broadcasters to be included in their limited channel lineup in each area.... View Details
Keywords: by Jen Deaderick; Media & Broadcasting
  • 06 Apr 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Should Entrepreneurs Pitch Products or Ideas for Products?

For example, with a better-protected and better-defined idea, the seller can more easily induce a bidding war. The buyer’s perspective Regardless of what stage the idea is at, there’s always the challenge of persuading a buyer to consider... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Motion Pictures & Video; Entertainment & Recreation; Banking
  • 19 Nov 2012
  • Research & Ideas

LEED-ing by Example

this strategy actually worked, up until now. “LEED [adoption] is not just something to pay attention to when there's a bid to rebuild city hall.” In a new paper, Public Procurement and the Private Supply of Green Buildings, authors... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Construction; Real Estate; Energy; Utilities
  • 25 May 2010
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First Look: May 25

(B):http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/410104-PDF-ENG Digital Media Group: The Shanghai Bid G. Felda Hardymon and Ann LeamonHarvard Business School Case 810-099 In December 2008, Thomas G. Tsao, acting CEO of Digital Media Group (DMG),... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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