Subsidiaries - Publications - Faculty & Research

22 May 2012
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First Look: May 22

technological innovation only in high-margin verticals? Or through a separate subsidiary with a new low-cost business model for commoditized verticals? Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/112084-PDF-ENG Virgin Group:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

31 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 31, 2009

opportunity to bid for debt and equity claims on Plascar Industria e Comercio Ltda., the Brazilian subsidiary of the bankrupt global auto components company Collins & Aikman Corp. In evaluating this opportunity, students must analyze... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

January 2006 (Revised April 2007)
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General Electric Healthcare, 2006

By: Tarun Khanna and Elizabeth Raabe

In January 2006, Joe Hogan, head of General Electric (GE) Healthcare Technologies, prepared to step into William Castell's shoes as CEO of GE Healthcare, the world's leading manufacturer of diagnostic imaging equipment. In 2004, former CEO Jeff Immelt acquired Amersham... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship; Cost vs Benefits; Growth and Development Strategy; Mergers and Acquisitions; Machinery and Machining; Global Range; Multinational Firms and Management; Product Design; Technological Innovation; Expansion; Value Creation; Business Subsidiaries; Health Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry

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17 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 17, 2007

Case 806-069 Randall Fojtasek, a partner at Brazos Private Equity Partners, must decide whether to invest more money in Cheddar's restaurant chain, which the firm invested in 10 months earlier. The incremental investment would fund a real estate View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

22 May 2007
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First Look: May 22, 2007

to over $2 billion in 10 years, problems surface as the subsidiaries are integrated into the established business. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807156 M-TRONICS (B) Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

26 Feb 2020
News

Phoenix Rising

Capital, a subsidiary of the National Bank of Greece, and served as its CEO. “I’m occasionally accused of running the country like a corporation,” he says of his leadership style, which was immediately on view: Elected on a Sunday, sworn... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

12 Apr 2016
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April 12, 2016

April 2016 Harvard Business Review Can You Cut 'Turn Times' Without Adding Staff? By: Bernstein, Ethan, and Ryan W. Buell Abstract—The president of RSA Ground, the subsidiary of Rising Sun Airlines responsible for servicing its planes at... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Institute Associates - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

System, an innovative health plan and care delivery system subsidiary of Anthem, Inc with $1.2B revenue and over 100,000 members. In this role, he has operational responsibility for more than 800 clinical staff and 40 care centers. He is... View Details

30 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers

methods unquestioningly. While Americans pioneered the multidivisional firm (divisions within one legal entity), for instance, Germans still preferred Konzerne (multisubsidiary operations). The fact that they were subsidiaries also kept... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

15 Jan 2013
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First Look: January 15

improved forecast accuracy, the value of their research about the spun-off subsidiaries is more limited. For both diversified firms and their spun-off subsidiaries, analysts' research is more valuable when information asymmetry between... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Research, April 4

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/317063-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 816-075 Tenet Healthcare and Conifer Health Solutions This case explores the relationship between Tenet Healthcare, the third largest for-profit hospital chain, and its View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018

Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/118074-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 118-066 Steinhoff International: Accounting Irregularities and Financial Markets Steinhoff International Holdings N.V. was a holding company whose View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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01 Oct 1996
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Leading In a New Era

Mills and General Foods), and brand management (with Procter & Gamble). During his five-year career as a naval officer prior to entering HBS, Charron served for one year in Vietnam. « Back George Harad began his 25 years with Boise Cascade Corporation in a real-estate... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

November 2017
Teaching Note

Reinventing Best Buy

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth

Teaching Note for HBS No. 716-455. On March 1, 2017, Best Buy Company, Inc., North America’s largest retailer of consumer electronics and appliances, announced a third year of comparable-store sales increases and a 20.8% increase in domestic comparable online sales.... View Details