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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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  • 01 Sep 2004
  • News

Home Sweet (Modular) Home

in an inner-city factory with union labor. As Stuntz quickly learned, entrepreneurs need a high tolerance for rejection. Prospecting for investors yielded only disappointment. “We finally decided to self-fund,” he recalls. Greentech seemed poised for a quick start... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • March 2010
  • Article

The Desire to Win: The Effects of Competitive Arousal on Motivation and Behavior

By: Deepak Malhotra
The paper theoretically elaborates and empirically investigates the "competitive arousal" model of decision making, which argues that elements of the strategic environment (e.g., head-to-head rivalry and time pressure) can fuel competitive motivations and behavior.... View Details
Keywords: Decision Making; Auctions; Bids and Bidding; Behavior; Motivation and Incentives; Personal Characteristics; Competition
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  • 01 Dec 2009
  • News

Up for Grabs

WHITMAN: After a successful career at eBay, going for the gold in California. Making her biggest bid in a career built on bids, former eBay CEO Meg Whitman (MBA ’79) threw her hat into the ring in September and formally declared that she... View Details
Keywords: Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government
  • 15 Mar 2010
  • HBS Case

Developing Asia’s Largest Slum

When the case opens, a fictitious developer, Rance Hollen, is at a critical juncture: Weighing the cost of capital, construction, and expected market prices for developed units, should Hollen meet the government's minimum bid for one of... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Construction; Real Estate
  • 22 Sep 2016
  • News

Building a Green Energy Grid

who cofounded the first aerial tramway in Costa Rica’s rainforest and made a quixotic bid in 2008 for US Congress. He is committed to helping the country attain a 30 percent reliance on renewable energy, with Clean Line Energy playing a... View Details
  • 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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  • 23 Dec 2008
  • First Look

First Look: December 23, 2008

http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=809052 PepsiCo's Bid for Quaker Oats (B) Harvard Business School Supplement 209-078 Second in a series on PepsiCo's bid for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 May 2016
  • News

FIELD 3: Taking Down Barriers

Biederman, who now runs HourlyNerd with two cofounders. Today, the Boston-based firm has raised three rounds of venture funding, has 45 full-time employees, and works with some 14,000 “nerds”—MBA graduates from a variety of top institutions—who View Details
  • 23 Apr 2016
  • News

Tipping His Cap to Open Source

As COO at Delta Airlines, Jim Whitehurst (MBA 1994) helped bring the legacy carrier back from the brink of bankruptcy in 2006 while fending off a takeover bid by US Airways. That feat accomplished, he moved on to lead Red Hat, which... View Details
  • 01 Jun 1999
  • News

Winning Combinations

Photos by Steve Boljonis As HBS bids adieu to the last MBA class of the century, the Bulletin offers a window onto the Class of '99 with profiles of six graduating students. Like many of their classmates, these individuals sparkle with... View Details
  • 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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  • 01 Mar 2010
  • News

The Heart of the Deal

BURKE: Behind a complicated deal, some high-profile HBSers and cloak-and-dagger secrecy. Stephen Chernin/Getty Images Comcast’s bid for a controlling stake in NBC Universal was a complex deal that featured many HBS alumni in starring,... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2002
  • News

East Side Story

and the United Nations and oversee $1.5 billion of new construction planned for the UN's Manhattan headquarters. “The ornate Senate chamber at the state Capitol rang with accolades for the patrician legislator,” the Daily News reported, as colleagues View Details
  • 01 Sep 2011
  • News

Making a Difference in the World

Officer Wim Elfrink, as quoted by Eccles, Edmondson, et al. “Sustainable Cities: Oxymoron or the Shape of the Future?” p. 37 “ $20--$40 billion project ’ “Gravity Defying: Whither Korea’s bid to build a world-class city entirely from... View Details
Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • Portrait Project

Joan Cheng

hadn't actually tried my hardest. At HBS we're taught to play to our strengths. But in my life I've found humor in being a horrible skier (ask my friends!), a lesson in my failed bid for a promotion, and peace in being unable to make that... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2016
  • News

Art Collecting’s New Egalitarianism

with big purchases. “A collection is something that can take many years,” he says. “It can take a lifetime to assemble.” It’s also OK to bid like there is a tomorrow. “You can miss a piece at one auction and find it again at another... View Details
  • Portrait Project

Emad Nadim

I leave people behind.   “Hey, I am leaving Dubai. But I’ll be back.” “Dude, I am leaving Lahore. See you when I’m back.” “Mate, I am taking a break from London. Be back in a bit.”   I was only nineteen days old when I first moved from one country to another. I... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2010
  • News

Slum for Sale

Hollen, is at a critical juncture: Weighing the cost of capital, construction, and expected market prices for developed units, should Hollen meet the government’s minimum bid for one of five development contracts, submit a proposal well... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government
  • 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