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  • September 2017
  • Case

Blackstone's Julia Kahr at the Summit

By: Paul A. Gompers, John D. Dionne and Amram Migdal
In 2009, Blackstone, the New York-based alternative asset and financial services firm, committed to invest up to $750 million into Summit Materials, a new company in the aggregates sector (i.e., construction materials, such as crushed stone, sand, gravel, cement,... View Details
Keywords: Roll Up; Private Equity Roll Up; Aggregates; Aggregates Materials; Construction Materials; Business Ventures; Acquisition; Leveraged Buyouts; Business Growth and Maturation; Engineering; Construction; Finance; Capital; Equity; Private Equity; Financial Instruments; Investment; Housing; Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Personal Development and Career; Management Teams; Planning; Problems and Challenges; Value; Valuation; Value Creation; Construction Industry; Financial Services Industry; United States
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  • August 2015 (Revised October 2023)
  • Case

Eastman Kodak Company: Restructuring a Melting Ice Cube

By: Stuart C. Gilson, John D. Dionne and Sarah L. Abbott
In May 2013, senior managers of GSO Capital Partners, an $80 billion credit-oriented investment firm owned by The Blackstone Group, are considering what to do next with their investment in the senior secured debt of Eastman Kodak Company. Once a great company and an... View Details
Keywords: Restructuring; Finance; Strategy; Investment; United States
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  • April 2016 (Revised February 2017)
  • Supplement

Eastman Kodak Company: Restructuring a Melting Ice Cube

By: Stuart C. Gilson, John D. Dionne and Sarah L. Abbott
In May 2013, senior managers of GSO Capital Partners, an $80 billion credit-oriented investment firm owned by The Blackstone Group, are considering what to do next with their investment in the senior secured debt of Eastman Kodak Company. Once a great company and an... View Details
Keywords: Restructuring; Financial Strategy; Investment; United States
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  • 2012
  • Case

ChemChina

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Donghong Li, Lei Li and Hong Zhang
ChemChina is China's largest basic chemical manufacturing firm. It was included in Fortune Global 500 in 2011 and 2012, ranked No. 475 and 402. Its sales revenue in 2011 was 179 billion yuan, and profit was 600 million yuan. The year-end total assets were 254.2 billion... View Details
Keywords: Reorganization; Strategy; China; China
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Faculty & Advisors | MBA

Division. Geoff has been consistently ranked as one of Wall Street’s most influential biotechnology analysts. Evan Rachlin MBA ‘10, Harvard University; MD ‘10, Harvard University; AB, Biochemistry and Japanese, Harvard University Evan is a Principal at View Details
  • 2012
  • Teaching Note

ChemChina (TN)

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Donghong Li, Lei Li and Hong Zhang
ChemChina is China's largest basic chemical manufacturing firm. It was included in Fortune Global 500 in 2011 and 2012, ranked No. 475 and 402. Its sales revenue in 2011 was 179 billion yuan, and profit was 600 million yuan. The year-end total assets were 254.2 billion... View Details
Keywords: Reorganization; Strategy; China; China
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Hiring Organizations

Benchstrength Berkeley Research Group LLC Berkshire Partners BHP Biogen BJ's Wholesale Club Blackhorn Ventures BlackRock Blackstone Blank Street Blitzy AI Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard University Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership... View Details
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Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni

Edward “Ed” Huang (MBA 2002) in honor of his 20th Reunion. Huang is a senior managing director and COO of Asia Private Equity for The Blackstone Group. He also serves on the boards of the private equity associations of Hong Kong (HKVCA)... View Details
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Founders & Investors - Entrepreneurship

Blackstone Group MBA 1972 Javier Segovia Tap 'n Tap MBA 2010 Rahul Shendure Oscilla Power MBA 2001 Mei Shibata The Energy Agency MBA 2003 Carlos A. Sicupira 3G Capital Management OPM 9 Leslie Simmons Pierson MEMI MBA 2004 Anupam Singhal... View Details
  • 18 Apr 2023
  • Research & Ideas

The Best Person to Lead Your Company Doesn't Work There—Yet

company to run the much smaller, PE-funded Nielsen Holdings. After taking Nielsen public, he moved to a senior position at PE firm The Blackstone Group to run portfolio operations. Boeing later named him CEO. “Boards need to cast a much... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services
  • 01 Sep 2023
  • News

Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees

“The more the technology grows, the more the market grows,” Norrington says. Investors seem to agree. In 2012, the public company went private in a $1.6 billion acquisition led by private equity firm Permira Advisors LLC; in 2022, View Details
Keywords: April White; Illustrations by Fabio Consoli; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information
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HBS - Key Metrics

help reduce disease transmission (which increases GHG emissions). Harvard University calculates its GHG emissions factor, but there is a delay in getting current grid data to feed into that calculation. Energy includes steam and electricity from Harvard’s View Details
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HBS - The year in Review

Black Boys United Raymond J. McGuire JD/MBA 1984 President, Lazard Antonis C. Samaras MBA 1976 Member, Hellenic Parliament, Greek Prime Minister, 2012–2015 Stephen A. Schwarzman MBA 1972 chairman, CEO, and cofounder, Blackstone More on... View Details
  • 09 Nov 2023
  • News

From the Brink

together people with different expertise, you have different perspectives on a particular problem.” For the core of the team, Weiss turned to Adam Chepenik (MBA 2010). Chepenik had worked at Blackstone in the investment giant’s... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
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Research - Private Capital Project

financial and non-financial sectors in 115 economies over the period 1940–2014, we document the following evidence that corporate debt plays a key role in explaining boom-bust cycles, financial crises, and slow... September 2023 Case View Details
  • 31 May 2023
  • News

Alumni Achievement Awards 2023

Photographed by Susan Young; Edited by Julia Hanna MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2023 recipients, and learn about past recipients. ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS SITE MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2023 recipients, and learn about past recipients.... View Details
Keywords: leadership; management; work-life balance
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Leadership Transitions | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

became one of the nation’s leading investment banks. [ 14] Mark T. Williams, Uncontrolled Risk: The Lessons of Lehman Brothers and How Systemic Risk Can Still Bring Down the World Financial System (New York: McGraw Hill, 2010), 25. [ 15] After leaving Lehman Brothers,... View Details
  • 16 Nov 2010
  • News

The HBS Tunnels

carrying steam from the Blackstone steam plant (which Harvard acquired in 2003), on the corner of Western Avenue and Memorial Drive, to HBS and under North Harvard Street to the Harvard athletics complex. Kresge tunnel looking toward... View Details
Keywords: Keith Larson
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HBS - Key Metrics

ventilation to help reduce disease transmission (which increases GHG emissions). Harvard University calculates its GHG emissions factor, but there is a delay in getting current grid data to feed into that calculation. Energy includes steam and electricity from... View Details
  • 01 Oct 1997
  • News

High Fives

company. Another was when Dick Fisher and John Mack asked me to head the investment banking division of Morgan Stanley, which I consider to be a great responsibility and a great honor.” Stephen A. Schwarzman President and CEO The View Details