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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 View Details
Keywords: Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support

    Robert R. Young

    bonds in foreclosure, launching a fight that took years to settle. Young, however, came out on top and was vindicated when the SEC formally instituted a competitive bidding requirement for all bond... View Details
    Keywords: Transportation
    • 01 Apr 2014
    • Research & Ideas

    When Do Alliances Make Sense?

    solo. He found it in a unique set of data: leases for oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. Firms competing to drill in the region have historically bid on 5,000-acre tracts, submitting sealed View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Energy; Utilities
    • 15 May 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: May 15, 2007

    inducing immediate execution of the order are functionally equivalent to bid and ask prices and can be solved for various transaction sizes to characterize the market maker's... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 07 Aug 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: August 7, 2007

    the auction of Cable & Wireless America (CWA), a bankrupt subsidiary of the British telecommunications company Cable & Wireless. While an initial "stalking-horse" bid valued the assets at $125 million, after a long day... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 15 Jul 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: July 15

    case concerns the negotiations of a deal by HgCapital, a UK-based private equity firm, to buy Visma, ASA, a Norwegian software company. Visma has received an offer from Sage Group, a strategic acquirer. HgCapital must determine if it wants to View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • August 2022
    • Case

    SuperRare: Turning an NFT Marketplace into a DAO

    By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang, Scott Duke Kominers and Amy Klopfenstein
    In June 2021, John Crain and Jonathan Perkins, the founders of SuperRare, a marketplace for non-fungible tokens (NFTs), contemplate whether to transform their company into a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO). Crain and Perkins founded SuperRare in 2018 to... View Details
    Keywords: NFTs; Crypto Economy; Alternative Assets; DAOs; Arts; Governance; Governance Controls; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Information Technology; Technology Adoption; Internet and the Web; Digital Platforms; Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation; Disruptive Innovation; Finance; Currency; Investment; Markets; Auctions; Bids and Bidding; Demand and Consumers; Network Effects; Market Design; Market Transactions; Market Timing; Web Services Industry; North and Central America; United States
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    • 24 Apr 2014
    • News

    Tackling the data dilemma

    In 2008, Meg Whitman (MBA 1979) was among those the New York Times identified as Most Likely to Be First Female US President. After a foray into politics—a gubernatorial bid in California—Whitman became president View Details
    • 14 Feb 2007
    • Op-Ed

    Tata-Corus: India’s New Steel Giant

    industry, also had a sorry ending. So, it is perhaps worth reflecting why Tata-Corus might be different. I believe it will be. Here's why. First, CNOOC's bid collapsed amid Washington intrigue. The Chinese proved to be babes-in-the-wood... View Details
    Keywords: by Tarun Khanna
    • 01 Sep 2011
    • News

    Making a Difference in the World

    The City Solution: Facts and Figures p. 32 “half the world’s people ” U.N. Habitat report (“Cities and Climate Change – Global Report on Human Settlements”) March 2011 p. 33 “2 percent land mass most of its... View Details
    Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services
    • 06 May 2019
    • Blog Post

    2019-2020 Recruiting Calendar Available Now

    CPD is excited to announce that the 2019-2020 recruiting calendar is now available. If you are ready to start thinking about how and when you want to engage with students for internship or full-time recruiting in 2019-2020, we are happy... View Details
    Keywords: All Industries
    • 04 Feb 2019
    • Blog Post

    Presenting…an Alternative to Company Presentations: Evercore Grabs Attention with Interactive Events

    Takeda/Shire case. Together, they explored the strategic rationale behind the transaction, the regulatory nuances of the UK Takeover Code, negotiations and bid strategy, financing View Details
    • 18 Apr 2005
    • Research & Ideas

    Selling Luxury to Everyone

    Mercedes-Benz launched the super-premium auto brand after opting out of the bidding for Rolls Royce and Bentley in the 1990s. The company estimated there are 200,000 individuals in the United States with a... View Details
    Keywords: by Julie Jette; Consumer Products
    • 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
    • 22 Dec 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: Dec. 22

    http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/810071-PDF-ENG Memo from Counsel: Antitrust Law and Customer Allocation Lynn S. Paine and Lara AdamsonsHarvard Business School Note 310-048 When do antitrust laws come... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 19 Dec 2016
    • Research & Ideas

    The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2016

    offer “precise” bids for company shares yield better outcomes than those who offer round-number bids, according to research by Petri Hukkanen and Matti Keloharju. Bernie Madoff Explains Himself Eugene Soltes... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • 16 Dec 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: December 16, 2008

      Working PapersSilent Saboteurs: How Implicit Theories of Voice Inhibit the Upward Flow of Knowledge in Organizations Authors:James R. Detert and Amy C. Edmondson Abstract This article examines, in a series of three studies, how people... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 20 Apr 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: April 20

    Notably, the result persists after controlling for a host of factors that may influence bidding, but disappears when the appeal for charity is replaced by an appeal to bid for other reasons. Implications for the link between religion... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 10 Jun 2002
    • Research & Ideas

    Reinventing the Industrial Giant

    Xerox, IBM, and Kodak. These industrial giants are trying to combine their industrial heritage with products, services, and business practices more closely associated with the new economy. Their basic... View Details
    Keywords: by Nitin Nohria, Davis Dyer & Frederick Dalzell; Manufacturing
    • 28 Jun 2016
    • First Look

    June 28, 2016

    decrease in hospital operational performance both at the time of and in the months leading up to the cohort turnover. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49849 Harvard Business School Case 216-057... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne