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  • January 2007
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Acquisitions and Firm Growth: Creating Unilever's Ice Cream and Tea Business

By: G. Jones and Peter Miskell
This article provides a longitudinal case study of the use of acquisitions by the Anglo-Dutch multinational Unilever to build the world's largest ice cream and tea businesses. The study supports recent resource-based theory which argues that complementary rather than... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Integration; Value; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Business and Shareholder Relations; Interests; Business Ventures; Employees; Food and Beverage Industry
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Jones, G., and Peter Miskell. "Acquisitions and Firm Growth: Creating Unilever's Ice Cream and Tea Business." Business History 49, no. 1 (January 2007).
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Graf Pilati, Dominik V. Eynern and Sophia Pan Nico Oprée, a fourth-generation (G4) member of his family’s heavy manufacturing business, found himself reflecting on how the firm would navigate a deepening shareholder conflict. While the... View Details
  • January 2017
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T. Rowe Price and the Dell Inc. MBO (A)

By: Lena G. Goldberg
T. Rowe Price’s mutual funds, separate accounts, institutional investors, and retirement accounts were, in the aggregate, Dell Inc.’s third largest shareholder in 2013 when Dell announced a management-led buyout, or MBO, structured as a merger. In considering whether... View Details
Keywords: Fiduciary Duties; Management Buy-out; Mergers and Acquisitions; Valuation; Business and Shareholder Relations; Financial Services Industry; Computer Industry; Delaware
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Goldberg, Lena G. "T. Rowe Price and the Dell Inc. MBO (A)." Harvard Business School Case 317-088, January 2017.
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The Talent at the Table: Business Expertise and Share Ownership in Fortune 500 Boardrooms

This paper examines the relationship between corporate value and "vestige" directors, defined as directors who own sizeable shareholdings but lack salient business experience relative to their peers on Fortune 500 boards.  These people come to serve on... View Details

    Price Anchors and Mergers and Acquisitions

    Prior stock price peaks of targets affect several aspects of merger and acquisition activity. Offer prices are biased toward recent peak prices although they are economically unremarkable. An offer's probability of acceptance jumps discontinuously when it exceeds a... View Details

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    Comparative Financial Systems and Corporate Governance

    One implication of the inherent logic of a financial system lies in the effects on corporate governance. Differences in financial systems across countries -- for instance, in terms of the role of banks, equity markets, and shareholder voting systems -- result in... View Details
    • September 2011 (Revised May 2013)
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    New Resource Bank: In Pursuit of Green

    By: Christopher Marquis and Juan Almandoz
    New Resource Bank was founded in San Francisco in 2006 with a mission focused on environmental sustainability. The case illustrates the opportunities and challenges of banking on values and the challenges of organizations defining a social and environmental commitment.... View Details
    Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Strategy; Business and Government Relations; Banking Industry; San Francisco
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    Marquis, Christopher, and Juan Almandoz. "New Resource Bank: In Pursuit of Green." Harvard Business School Case 412-060, September 2011. (Revised May 2013.)
    • June 2007 (Revised November 2008)
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    Nordic Telephone Company's Bid for TDC

    Nordic Telephone Company, formed by a consortium of private equity firms, has made a public tender offer for Denmark's leading telecommunications company, TDC. TDC's board of directors approved the take-private transaction, and 88% of shareholders have accepted the... View Details
    Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Communication Technology; Decision Choices and Conditions; Negotiation Offer; Privatization; Telecommunications Industry; Denmark
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    El-Hage, Nabil N., Mark Lurie, and Leslie Pierson. "Nordic Telephone Company's Bid for TDC." Harvard Business School Case 207-122, June 2007. (Revised November 2008.)
    • August 2002 (Revised June 2003)
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    New Wachovia (A), The

    By: Carliss Y. Baldwin and Jeremy Swinson
    In April 2001, First Union Corp. announced an agreement to merge with Wachovia Corp., a fellow North Carolina-based commercial bank. While the banks were preparing to consummate the merger, SunTrust Banks, Inc. of Atlanta, made a hostile offer for Wachovia, setting in... View Details
    Keywords: Voting; Mergers and Acquisitions; Conflict and Resolution; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry; Atlanta; North Carolina
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    Baldwin, Carliss Y., and Jeremy Swinson. "New Wachovia (A), The." Harvard Business School Case 903-033, August 2002. (Revised June 2003.)
    • 25 Oct 2014
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    Executive pay: Moneybags

    • 20 Jul 2022
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    Might Elon Musk Be Forced to Buy Twitter?

    • September 1991
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    Kaiser Steel Corporation, 1984

    By: Timothy A. Luehrman
    In 1984, Kaiser's shareholders were asked to approve a complicated leveraged buyout of the company. Students are asked to analyze the proposed transaction and make a recommendation. To do this, they must determine who gets what in the deal, whether and how any value is... View Details
    Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Capital; Value Creation; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Steel Industry
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    Luehrman, Timothy A. "Kaiser Steel Corporation, 1984." Harvard Business School Case 292-028, September 1991.
    • March 2002
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    Unified Energy System at Russia

    On April 4, 2000, at a board of directors' meeting, CEO Anatoly Chubais, Russia's legendary reformer, announced his plan to break up the Russian joint stock company Unified Energy System (UES). The plan envisioned breaking up the giant energy monopoly along two lines... View Details
    Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Energy Industry; Russia
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    Huang, Yasheng, Anatoli Miliukov, and Kirsten O'Neil Massaro. "Unified Energy System at Russia." Harvard Business School Case 702-068, March 2002.
    • 21 Jul 2020
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    Risk, Reward, and Impact

    • 21 Mar 2018
    • News

    Facebook critics assail CEO Zuckerberg

    • 02 Nov 2017
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    Florian Ederer, Yale University

    • April 2011
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    Ownership Structure and the Cost of Corporate Borrowing

    By: Chen Lin, Yue Ma, Paul Malatesta and Yuhai Xuan
    This article identifies an important channel through which excess control rights affect firm value. Using a new, hand-collected data set on corporate ownership and control of 3,468 firms in 22 countries during the 1996-2008 period, we find that the cost of debt... View Details
    Keywords: Borrowing and Debt; Cash Flow; Cost; Financing and Loans; Governance Controls; Ownership Stake; Business and Shareholder Relations
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    Lin, Chen, Yue Ma, Paul Malatesta, and Yuhai Xuan. "Ownership Structure and the Cost of Corporate Borrowing." Journal of Financial Economics 100, no. 1 (April 2011): 1–23. (Lead Article. First Place Winner of the 2011 Jensen Prize for the Best Paper in the Areas of Corporate Finance and Organizations published in the Journal of Financial Economics.)
    • 22 Aug 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    The Hedge Fund as Activist

    performance, most investors have found it easier to vote "with their feet" by selling shares, rather than making formal complaints. Large shareholders, however, have stronger incentives to monitor management. The conventional wisdom is that because these... View Details
    Keywords: by Robin Greenwood; Financial Services
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    Overview

    In the light of multiple corporate debacles, financial crises and environmental disasters across the globe, the need for corporate goals to transition from simply maximizing shareholder wealth to optimizing stakeholder welfare is being echoed in various quarters. Dr.... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Responsibility; Stakeholder Management; Social Enterprise; Inclusive Growth; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; India
    • October 2012
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    The Effect of Reference Point Prices on Mergers and Acquisitions

    By: Malcolm Baker, Xin Pan and Jeffrey Wurgler
    Prior stock price peaks of targets affect several aspects of merger and acquisition activity. Offer prices are biased toward recent peak prices although they are economically unremarkable. An offer's probability of acceptance jumps discontinuously when it exceeds a... View Details
    Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Stocks; Price; Valuation; Negotiation
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    Baker, Malcolm, Xin Pan, and Jeffrey Wurgler. "The Effect of Reference Point Prices on Mergers and Acquisitions." Journal of Financial Economics 106, no. 1 (October 2012): 49–71.
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