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  • 07 Feb 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Dividends from Schumpeter’s Noble Failure

material as an account of recent economic trends.17 The third book would have consolidated and elaborated the splendid passages on the long-term evolution of business. In that form, the book would have been a successful marriage of... View Details
Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw
  • 09 Nov 2010
  • First Look

First Look: November 9, 2010

restructuring in pillar industries and its effect on industry structures. In the petrochemical industry, the shift toward greater horizontal consolidation and vertical integration reduces the collective action problems associated with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 2

due to partial family ownership and a consolidating market for industrial gases. Aiming to make Messer Griesheim a more attractive potential acquisition, Messer Griesheim management had drawn up a restructuring plan as early as 2000. By... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: September 13

(2006-2011) of distribution rationalization and consolidation at Ford. The financial crisis in the second half of 2008 forced GM and Chrysler into bankruptcy. Having completed the distribution overhaul work by 2011, its senior managers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Sep 2007
  • First Look

First Look: September 18, 2007

Documents progress, including organizational efficiencies gained that include consolidation of health care facilities, and illuminates leadership actions that facilitate this progress. Clearly, many challenges still lie ahead. Near the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Jun 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018

consolidation and cost pressure. Was he right, or should Alltech take a different approach? Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/518001-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 318-088 Passion and Strategy: Novozymes' Embrace... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 16 Feb 2016
  • First Look

February 16, 2016

new collaborative efforts with government agencies, including the Department of Commerce and the Federal Trade Commission. Both the private and public initiatives at industry rationalization challenged existing ideas of antitrust law, which had favored either corporate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Apr 2002
  • News

Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction

minority college juniors and seniors to general management issues through the case method and encourages them to consider careers in business. A Saturday morning packed with sessions covered topics ranging from consolidation in the media... View Details
Keywords: H Naylor Fitzhugh; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 31 Jul 2012
  • First Look

First Look: July 31

112-105 A simple consolidation exercise. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/112105-PDF-ENG Capitalizing for the Future: HSBC in 2010 Anette Mikes and Dominique HamelHarvard Business School Case 112-097 Following the financial crisis... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 07 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Sept. 7

These structures determine a firm's motivation to seek protection, as well as its capacity to overcome collective action problems within its industry. In the petrochemical industry, the shift toward greater horizontal consolidation and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 1996
  • News

Class Acts

serve on a team that consolidated and restructured student-run concessions. After graduation, Lyon intends to keep a hand in Uncle Dave's Kitchen as a member of the company's board while remaining in the Boston area as a strategic planner... View Details
  • November 2020 (Revised April 2021)
  • Case

Roll-Ups and Surprise Billing: Collisions at the Intersection of Private Equity and Patient Care

By: Trevor Fetter and Kira Seiger
This case describes the increasing investment by private equity (PE) firms in patient care and other healthcare services. The case focuses on investments in physician staffing firms and roll-up strategy investments in physician practice management (PPM). Included in... View Details
Keywords: Business Ventures; Acquisition; Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Model; Change; Disruption; Fluctuation; Trends; Customers; Customer Value and Value Chain; Ethics; Fairness; Finance; Equity; Insurance; Private Equity; Geography; Geographic Scope; Health; Health Care and Treatment; Markets; Demand and Consumers; Supply and Industry; Industry Structures; Ownership; Ownership Type; Private Ownership; Relationships; Agency Theory; Business and Community Relations; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Networks; Strategy; Competition; Consolidation; Expansion; Integration; Horizontal Integration; Vertical Integration; Value; Value Creation; Health Industry; Insurance Industry; United States
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  • 22 Jun 2009
  • Research & Ideas

“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms

including taking Fannie and Freddie out of the investment business, simplifying mortgage disclosure documents, consolidating the federal government's highly fractured financial services regulatory agencies, and requiring that financial... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services
  • 04 Dec 2007
  • First Look

First Look: December 4, 2007

development and potential consolidation of the household electronic appliance retailing sector. Gome, Suning, and China Paradise, the three largest players in the market, all experienced phenomenal growth, but Gome is slowly losing steam... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Mar 2014
  • News

The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria

farming communities. In 2007, the two businessmen worked with a group of Nigerian banks to complete the consolidation of a $222 million loan—the largest in Nigeria's history—to rehabilitate the Notore plant. In 2009, a decade after NAFCON... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs; John H. Davis; Michael Halse; Crop Production; Agriculture; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 01 Sep 2017
  • News

City of Dreams

operators, in addition to government-run vehicles. The result: an unregulated, competitive chaos on roads already choked with cars, motorcycles, and three-wheeled tuk tuks. If all goes to plan, bus service will be consolidated on clean,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Alice Carfrae; Sri Lanka; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government
  • 10 Jan 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance

business innovation and development vice-president, "All Natura product lines must have a cause and a story to tell, so as to strengthen and consolidate the identification of our colaboradoras with the company." In line with... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin, Ezequiel Reficco & SEKN research team
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details

  • 11 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 11

Business School Case 213-019 Slater & Gordon (S&G), a midsized Australian law firm with a high-growth consolidation strategy, had an initial public offering (IPO) scheduled for May 2007. Due to a series of regulatory changes in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Nov 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

challenges of sustaining its advantages in a highly competitive and consolidating industry, and whether it should pursue organic or inorganic growth, while maintaining company culture. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel