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  • 23 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 23, 2007

Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707030 Lion Capital and the Blackstone Group: The Orangina Deal Harvard Business School Case 807-005 The managing partners of two private equity firms are hoping to forestall a third... 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
  • 21 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 21, 2009

how much to bid for the loans. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=209088 The Suzlon Edge Harvard Business School Case 708-051 With prices of oil, coal and gas at... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Apr 2005
  • Research & Ideas

New Learning at American Home Products

successful bid in 1988 of $3.18 billion for A. H. Robbins, a transaction that enlarged its OTC business, making it second in sales only to Johnson & Johnson. The purchase price included $2.5 billion to cover damages resulting from... View Details
Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler Jr.; Chemical; Health; Manufacturing; Pharmaceutical
  • 10 Jul 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities

standards were met. In 1972, the FCC also limited the franchise fees that municipalities could charge cable operators to three percent of revenue, and fixed the length of franchise agreements at fifteen years, reducing uncertainty for cable operators when View Details
Keywords: by Thomas R. Eisenmann; Media & Broadcasting; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 14 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: February 14

817-016 Mark43 The founders of Mark43, an early-stage startup that provides software for law enforcement agencies, must decide whether to bid on a request for proposals (RFP) from the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD). On the one hand,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 29, 2007

PeopleSoft: A Case Study Authors:D. Millstone and Guhan Subramanian Periodical:Harvard Negotiation Law Review (winter 2007) Abstract This case describes Oracle's hostile takeover bid to acquire PeopleSoft, which began with an unsolicited... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Feb 2012
  • First Look

First Look: February 7

case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/512039-PDF-ENG INNOVA-MEX's Bid for ENKONTROL Ramana Nanda, William R. Kerr, and Carin-Isabel KnoopHarvard Business School Case 812-008 In their second year, two Mexican HBS MBAs joined forces to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 23

Supplement 411-002 The Dow board made a bid for Rohm and Haas Company in order to transition its portfolio away from commodity chemicals towards specialty chemicals. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Apr 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Debate over Taxing Foreign Profits

lost. Concretely, imagine that Cummins is bidding on that operation in Germany and so is Mitsubishi. If Cummins is the higher productivity owner, it should win that auction in order to maximize social welfare. But tax systems can distort... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 4, 2008

scale. In time, the South Sea Company won the bidding war, and the House of Commons approved its debt conversion plan. Now it was up to the House of Lords to approve or reject the deal. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 May 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018

with the direction of the company under Iger’s predecessor, Michael Eisner; and Comcast had made a $54 billion hostile bid to take over Disney only one year before. The situation for Disney looked bleak. Yet by December 2015 the tide had... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 10 Mar 2015
  • Research & Ideas

The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution

to Cerberus Capital Management in a bid to stay afloat. Even large chains, like Safeway, have struggled with generating high returns on invested capital, and Safeway has also been purchased by Cerberus Capital Management. Kroger, for its... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail
  • 05 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 5, 2007

or purchase decision will impact their financial statements, and how the market will react given previously forecast earnings and competitor's accounting. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=108014 Saffronart.com: View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 25

Grupo Beta San Miguel In November 2013, Dr. Jose Pinto, head of Grupo Beta San Miguel (BSM), Mexico's largest private sugar producer, is weighing the future prospects of the Mexican sugar industry as he considers whether BSM should bid on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 8

utility had made a public announcement it was accepting bids to implement a smart water network monitoring system, and Peleg wanted to discuss if and how aggressively TaKaDu should bid on the contract with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Nov 2010
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Data.gov: Matching Government Data with Rapid Innovation

disastrous effects of the recent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Another class participant pointed to an example of high-value data use documented in the Data.gov case study: In Virginia where there were problems with a bidding process,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Technology
  • 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
  • 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

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