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    Charles E. Hires

    Hires invented one of the world’s most popular soft drinks – root beer. He incorporated his company with a capitalization of $300,000, which steadily expanded into millions. He was also a pioneer in the production of condensed milk,... View Details
    Keywords: Food & Tobacco
    • 01 Dec 2009
    • News

    Seven Honored with Alumni Achievement Award

    Co., LLC Greenhill A 31-year veteran and former president of Morgan Stanley, Bob Greenhill launched his own boutique merchant bank, Greenhill & Co., in 1996 and took it public in 2004. The firm currently has a market capitalization... View Details
    Keywords: Susan Young; awards; fishing; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance; Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; General Merchandise Stores; Retail Trade
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    HBS Course: Starting a Private Investment Firm

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    Reference material that includes an "analysis of the legal, economic, tax, and accounting considerations necessary to successfully structure venture View Details
    • March 2009
    • Supplement

    Groupe Eurotunnel S.A. (B): Restructuring Under the Procedure de Sauvegarde

    By: Stuart C. Gilson, Vincent Marie Dessain and Sarah Abbott
    In mid-2007 the chairman and CEO of Eurotunnel Group, having elected to file for bankruptcy under a newly-enacted French insolvency law, awaits the outcome of a vote by creditors and shareholders. At least 50% of the shareholders must approve the plan, however they... View Details
    Keywords: Restructuring; Capital Structure; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Law; Valuation; Assets; Investment Funds; Voting; Business and Shareholder Relations; Ownership; Outcome or Result; France
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      Ross S. Sterling

      Using proceeds from his feed store business, Sterling began investing in oil wells in 1909. Forming Humble Oil with several other astute oil businessmen, Sterling led his company through a strong expansion period, during which the company’s View Details
      Keywords: Utilities & Energy

        Samuel P. Colt

        Colt organized United States Rubber into a vertically integrated business with a centralized administration. Colt also diversified United States Rubber to include non-footwear items, such as tires, which were a booming market at the time of his tenure. Colt grew United... View Details
        Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial
        • December 2017 (Revised February 2021)
        • Case

        Bega Cheese: Bidding to Bring Vegemite Back Home

        By: Benjamin C. Esty and Lauren G. Pickle
        In January 2017, the leadership team of Bega Cheese—the Australian dairy company—was considering a bid for Mondelēz International’s Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) grocery business, which included several leading consumer brands such as Vegemite, the iconic Australian... View Details
        Keywords: Mergers ＆ Acquisitions; Value Drivers; Discounted Cash Flow (DCF); Dairy Industry; Corporate Scope; Consumer Goods; Iconic Brands; Bidding Strategy; Cross Border; Financing; Mergers and Acquisitions; Valuation; Value Creation; Diversification; Business Divisions; Corporate Finance; Capital Structure; Food; Bids and Bidding; Consumer Products Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Australia; United States
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        • January 2009 (Revised March 2009)
        • Case

        A Chinese Start-up's Midlife Crisis: 99Sushe.com

        By: William C. Kirby, F. Warren McFarlan and Tracy Manty
        Now into their third year at the helm of an Internet start-up in China, Ken Pao and Bill Li were managing a totally different company (with a new name) from the one they first founded in 2006. Having changed their business model from a social networking site to an... View Details
        Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Investment Funds; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; China
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        • 20 Mar 2007
        • First Look

        First Look: March 20, 2007

        the impact of inventory on sales and the interrelationship between gross margin and inventory. We also estimate the effects of exogenous explanatory variables such as store growth, proportion of new inventory, capital investment per... View Details
        Keywords: Martha Lagace
        • 01 Sep 2014
        • News

        Research Brief: A $1.6 Trillion Rainy-Day Fund?

        can’t access capital as easily as public ones, though that business reality accounted for only one-quarter of the difference in cash holdings. The remainder of the difference was due to attempts to time the stock market: Public-firm... View Details
        Keywords: Francis Storrs

          James E. Casey

          Starting with two bicycles and $100 in capital in 1907, Casey went on to build one of the most respected and recognized companies of the 20th century – United Parcel Service. UPS’s trademark brown delivery vehicles have become synonymous... View Details
          Keywords: Transportation

            D. Wayne Calloway

            non-core businesses and encouraging risk-taking throughout the organization, Calloway posted phenomenal growth figures. He generated a fourfold increase in revenues from $8 billion to $32 billion and grew PepsiCo’s market capitalization... View Details
            Keywords: Food & Tobacco
            • 01 Sep 2011
            • News

            FAQ

            Why is annual alumni support so important? The flexible, current-use support provided by annual gifts is essential to innovation at HBS, especially since 89 percent of the School’s endowment is restricted. Such contributions are used as seed View Details
            Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

              Seth E. Thomas, Jr.

              Having joined the company immediately after college, Thomas was responsible for the largest wave of expansion in the history of his great-grandfather’s firm. In addition to introducing a line of electric clocks in 1927, Thomas also raised production of its traditional... View Details
              Keywords: Fabricated Goods

                Richard K. Mellon

                Mellon was responsible for the reorganization of the financial structure of Mellon enterprises. He consolidated several family-managed companies, the most significant of which was the merger of two competing Mellon institutions – the Mellon National bank and the Union... View Details
                Keywords: Finance

                  George Eastman

                  Eastman invented film and the inexpensive camera, and in turn created the multi-billion dollar photography industry. Eastman acquired all the photographic paper producers in America and secured the motion picture film market for Eastman Kodak, eventually controlling 75... View Details
                  Keywords: Fabricated Goods
                  • 01 Jun 2007
                  • News

                  Mission Possible

                  isn’t that different from a for-profit company, he adds, except “we don’t have rational capital markets in the nonprofit world. In the private sector, if you do well, people run to you with capital, hoping to get a piece of your increased... View Details
                  Keywords: Roger Thompson; Margie Kelley; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance
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                  2021 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

                  Gender and Work Research Symposium: Virtual Edition Gender and Work Research Symposium: Virtual Edition 6 MAY 2021 Home Speakers Videos Agenda Location: Virtual Organizer: The Race, Gender & Equity Initiative Our theme Race, Capitalism... View Details
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                  Kari Gerster

                  I am opportunistic – I figure it out as I go along. In high school, I did not predict that I'd spend college studying art and literature in the Berkshire Mountains. In college, I never guessed that I'd work in venture capital in New York... View Details

                    Robert L. Johnson

                    firm to be traded on the New York Stock Exchange. With the capital infusion from the public offering, Johnson expanded his business operations – moving into film production, publishing, and new programming. By the end of the nineties, BET... View Details
                    Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media