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  • 23 Feb 2011
  • First Look

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
  • 29 May 2018
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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
  • 02 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 2

the project; the partner was also required to integrate some local smallholders into the production chain. In December 2009, Codevasf was almost ready to start accepting bids for Pontal. For Clementino de Souza Coelho, director of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Nov 2008
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First Look: November 4, 2008

http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=209012 TCS: The MCA 21 Project Harvard Business School Case 609-024 Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a leading outsourced software services provider based in India, must decide whether to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Oct 2007
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First Look: First Look: October 10

Case 407-050 Gianna Angelopoulous-Daskalaki led the bidding organization that secured the 2004 Olympics for Athens and then later the preparations for those Games. Tracks her leadership style and how she and her team won the bid. After... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 May 2016
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May 10, 2016

Harvard Business School Case 816-076 Rest Devices No abstract available. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/816076-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 216-040 Bidding for Finansbank Because of the deepening... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 21 Dec 2010
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First Look: December 21

competitor's footsteps and expand overseas? Or could it count on an ever-increasing population of U.S. prisoners to fuel continued growth? Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/710042-PDF-ENG Dow's Bid for Rohm and Haas... View Details
  • 25 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 25, 2007

the West Zone concession by Maynilad Water Services. Over the next decade, Manila Water turned in an impressive and profitable performance, while Maynilad failed. Describes the management actions of Manila Water and poses the question of whether, and how much, they... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 May 2012
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First Look: May 22

The board of the company repeatedly rejected Icahn's offers as inadequate. He made three bids over the course of three months. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/412078-PDF-ENG Nike Football: World Cup 2010 (B) Elie... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 May 2007
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First Look: May 22, 2007

a higher price without raising its multiple. If the private equity firm wins the bidding contest, the profit model subsequently becomes a blueprint for managing the turnaround company and aligning company management to the required... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 28

after Transatlantic's failed effort at a merger of equals, and as several other unsuccessful bids for the company, one that was hostile. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/313017-PDF-ENG Mekanism: Engineering Viral Marketing Thales... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 10, 2009

exceptions-including major ones-may in fact arise. We focus on three historical cases in which special interests apparently gave way to the general interest in the policy making process: the enactment of Medicare in 1965, in which the powerful doctors lobby failed in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 24, 2007

that relied heavily on debt? Would Warburg Pincus Ventures be prepared to pay a price sufficient to win the bidding contest? Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=207125 Dressen (Abridged) (B)... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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