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  • April 2006 (Revised April 2012)
  • Background Note

The Company Sale Process

By: William E. Fruhan Jr.
Lays out the steps, the timeline, and the process by which a company is sold. Focuses on the sale of companies with enterprise values greater than $100 million. These transactions are large enough to require the help of a financial adviser and attract both strategic... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Auctions; Bids and Bidding; Agreements and Arrangements; Sales
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  • 21 Dec 2012
  • News

Ray Goldberg honored for contribution to agribusiness

  • September 2017 (Revised March 2018)
  • Case

Great Lakes Banking Group: Data Management

By: Shane Greenstein and Christine Snively
In May 2016, Michael Rechtin, an expert in international data center law, advised global financial services firm Great Lakes Banking Group (GLBG) on its plans to upgrade its data centers. The bank’s data processing and storage systems were in need of an update, and... View Details
Keywords: Information Infrastructure; Infrastructure; Operations; Information Management
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  • 03 Apr 2020
  • News

The Small Business Administration Confronts an Historic Crisis

    Lauren H. Cohen

    Lauren Cohen is the L.E. Simmons Professor in the Finance & Entrepreneurial Management Units at Harvard Business School and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is an Editor of the Review of Financial... View Details

    Keywords: financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services

      Martin A. Sinozich

      Martin Sinozich is a Senior Lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business School, where he teaches in both MBA and Executive Education programs.  For first-year MBAs, Martin teaches in Field Global Immersion, a required course that... View Details

        Suraj Srinivasan

        Suraj Srinivasan is the Philip J. Stomberg Professor of Business Administration, a member of the Accounting and Management faculty unit, and chair of the View Details

        Keywords: financial services; financial services
        • October 2020 (Revised February 2024)
        • Case

        Divesting Harvard's Endowment

        By: Daniel Green, Luis M. Viceira and Holly Fetter
        By early 2020 Harvard University was facing growing pressure from students, faculty, and alumni to divest its $40 billion endowment of financial stakes in fossil fuel producers. Its previous policy of avoiding the issue was quickly becoming outdated—$21 trillion of... View Details
        Keywords: Divestment; Harvard University; ESG; Higher Education; Investment Portfolio; Environmental Sustainability; Strategy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact
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        • June 2014
        • Case

        Riverview Law: Applying Business Sense to the Legal Market

        By: Heidi K. Gardner and Silvia Hodges Silverstein
        Riverview Law, run like a business rather than a traditional law firm, wants to expand its unconventional concept from the UK to the US. The firm's approach includes performing all legal work for annual fixed-price contracts, using data and analytics to advise clients... View Details
        Keywords: Strategy; Professional Services; Disruptive Innovation; Law Firms; Client Service; Culture; Recruiting; Management; Professional Services Firms; Business Model; Legal Services Industry; United Kingdom; United States
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        • November 2016 (Revised April 2018)
        • Case

        Darby's Investment in Sirma: Professionalizing an Entrepreneurial Firm

        By: Suraj Srinivasan and Eren Kuzucu
        In March 2010, Burak Dalgın (HBS MBA 2004) led private equity firm Darby's investment in Sırma, a local Turkish water and beverage company. Sırma was owned and managed by members of two Turkish business families. The existing management, while being highly... View Details
        Keywords: Control Systems; Variance Analysis; Emerging Markets; Debt; Family Ownership; Turkey; Valuation; Business or Company Management; Private Equity; Financial Reporting; Investment; Budgets and Budgeting; Food and Beverage Industry; Turkey
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        • December 2007
        • Case

        The Amsterdam World Trade Center

        By: A. Eugene Kohn, Hans van Tartwijk, Nhat Minh Nguyen, Brent Kazan and David Lane
        Late in September 2001, Hans van Tartwijk, president of Trimp & van Tartwijk Property Development (TvT) of Amsterdam, Holland, was deeply worried about the status of his largest ongoing project; the Amsterdam World Trade Center (WTC). As the discretionary developer,... View Details
        Keywords: Risk Management; Property; Performance Improvement; Projects; Environmental Sustainability; Real Estate Industry; Netherlands
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        • November 2004 (Revised April 2005)
        • Case

        Deutsche Bank: Discussing the Equity Risk Premium

        Two members of Deutsche Bank's Fixed Income Research Group are discussing how to advise clients on bond vs. equity asset allocation. A critical aspect to this asset allocation decision is the equity risk premium. Discusses a unique way developed by the bank for... View Details
        Keywords: Risk Management; Asset Management; Bonds; Capital Markets; Investment Banking; Institutional Investing; Equity; Banking Industry; Germany
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          Vikram Gandhi

          Vikram S. Gandhi is the Gerald P. Kaminsky Senior Lecturer of Business Administration in the General Management Unit. He has developed and teaches two new courses in the Elective Curriculum of the MBA Program. The first is a finance and investing course, Sustainable... View Details

          Keywords: financial services
          • 02 Apr 2024
          • What Do You Think?

          What's Enough to Make Us Happy?

          wellbeing and the things that determine them—our relationships with family and friends, our careers, our financial wealth, our physical and spiritual exercise and diet? The notion is that if we set goals for “enough,” we’ll be more... View Details
          Keywords: by James Heskett
          • March 2008 (Revised April 2009)
          • Case

          Eliot Spitzer: Pushing Wall Street to Reform

          By: Rawi Abdelal, Rafael Di Tella and Jonathan Schlefer
          New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer faced a decision about how to stop wrongdoing committed by major Wall Street firms during the Internet boom. The equities analysts of Merrill Lynch and other Wall Street firms were charged with objectively advising retail... View Details
          Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Decisions; Financial Institutions; Stocks; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Laws and Statutes; Lawsuits and Litigation; Conflict of Interests; Internet; Financial Services Industry; United States
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            Sandra J. Sucher

            Sandra Sucher, professor of management practice at Harvard Business School, is an internationally recognized trust researcher. The Power of Trust, her third book, is based on two decades of global research on how companies build stakeholder trust and how,... View Details

            Keywords: financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services

              Deborah M. Winshel

              Deborah Winshel is a Senior Lecturer in the General Management Unit of Harvard Business School.  She teaches several MBA required courses: Leadership and Organizational Behavior (LEAD), Leadership and Corporate Accountability and the Field Immersion course (2025 in... View Details

              • 2023
              • Working Paper

              Firm Visibility and Acquisition Likelihood: Evidence from Seeking Alpha Coverage

              By: Pu Gu, Benjamin Yost and Yuan Zou
              This study investigates whether social media coverage influences a firm’s likelihood of being acquired. Specifically, we hypothesize that coverage of a firm on the Seeking Alpha platform raises its visibility to potential acquirers and M&A advisers (i.e., investment... View Details
              Keywords: Social Media; Mergers and Acquisitions; Marketplace Matching; Investment Banking
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                Daniel Rabetti

                Professor Rabetti is a financial economist from São Paulo, Brazil, with a Ph.D. in Business from Tel Aviv University. He joined the National University of Singapore (NUS) Business School in 2023 as the S. Dhanabalan Chair in Quantitative Studies and an Assistant... View Details

                  Richard F. Meyer

                  Richard F. Meyer is Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. Professor Meyer received his Ph.D. from Harvard University and spent the first ten years of his career in the Management Services Division of Arthur D. Little, Inc., serving as a... View Details