Restructuring - Publications - Faculty & Research

February 1996
Case

Spartan Stores Incorporated: Reengineering for Efficient Consumer Response

Describes an effort to rationalize operations at a leading grocery wholesaler, enabled by information systems. Spartan Stores, Inc., is cooperatively owned by its 238 retailers and, through training, consulting, systems support, and cost of goods efficiencies, strives... View Details

Keywords: Business or Company Management; Restructuring; Information Technology

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June 1991 (Revised May 1992)
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Cumberland Worldwide Corp. (B)

Cumberland has been in Chapter 11 for 18 months and is trying to formulate a plan of reorganization that will satisfy a variety of claimants. Teaching objective: valuation and negotiation issues. View Details

Keywords: Negotiation; Valuation; Restructuring; Insolvency and Bankruptcy

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June 2013
Supplement

Union Corrugating Co. (Video Supplement)

By: Jim Sharpe

This is the Video Supplement for Union Corrugating Company(A) and (B) (HBS Cases 803065 and 804003). View Details

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September 1988 (Revised November 1988)
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American Rice: A Farmers Cooperative Goes Public

By: Ray A. Goldberg

Keywords: Cooperative Ownership; Restructuring; Competitive Strategy; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Food and Beverage Industry

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November 1994
Case

Navistar International

By: Stuart C. Gilson and Jeremy Cott

As a consequence of laying off half its workforce in a massive downsizing program, the company--a large manufacturer of medium and heavy trucks--struggles with a huge ($2.6 billion) liability for retiree medical costs. Although the company has promised its retirees... View Details

Keywords: Negotiation Process; Wages; Labor Unions; Legal Liability; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Restructuring

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September 2021 (Revised June 2023)
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Serving Bud Moore (B)

By: David G. Fubini and Patrick Sanguineti

In only his third year at a Leading Strategy Consulting firm (LSC), Gregory Davis has been assigned to a select group tasked with advising General Motors (GM), one of the largest companies in the world by revenue, on how to reorganize their entire North American... View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Relationships; Outcome or Result; Groups and Teams; Management Skills; Restructuring

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20 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Big Deal: Reflections on the Megamerger of American and US Airways

help companies with fundamentally viable businesses become financially stronger and more competitive. The Bankruptcy Code achieves this by giving companies a "safe harbor" while they restructure their liabilities, buying time... View Details

Keywords: Re: Rosabeth M. Kanter & Stuart C. Gilson; Air Transportation

01 Sep 2012
News

A Silent Workplace Crisis

thirties, restructuring the marketing organization for a large regional bank, and my husband, Ray Benvenuti (MBA 1986), and I had two children under seven. At that time, I had no inkling of what would be required to juggle the needs of... View Details

Keywords: Janet Simpson Benvenuti; caregiving; aging; Nursing and Residential Care Facilities; Health, Social Assistance

01 Sep 2009
News

From Bytes to Bites

2001 she came on board full-time to help run Hearon’s company, Nice Ventures. “It was going to be a short-term change,” she recalls. “I thought I’d bring in some new financing, we’d restructure, and I’d go back to working in Silicon Valley.” By September 2003, the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

Michael Kaplan

positions in the venture capital and financial space before his entrepreneurial spirit led him and his brother to launch Fashion to Figure as a single store they ran themselves for two years before expanding the business. Recently, Kaplan has been an advisor and... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products & Packaged Goods;#20;#Ecommerce;#19;#Digital Health;#29;#Entertainment;#30;#Fashion, Beauty, Apparel, & Retail;#31;#Finance;#55;#Music

September 1996 (Revised December 1997)
Case

Cytec Industries' Spin-Off (A): Sink or Swim?

In the wake of market pressure to restructure, American Cyanamid spun off its poorly performing Chemicals Unit into a new publicly traded corporation, Cytec Industries. In addition to weak operations, Cytec inherited the bulk of Cyanamid's environmental and... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Management Practices and Processes; Restructuring; Performance Improvement; Chemical Industry; United States

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January 2009
Teaching Note

The Hertz Corporation (B) (TN)

By: Timothy A. Luehrman

Teaching Note to [208031]. View Details

Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Private Equity; Restructuring; Valuation

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November 2013
Supplement

Arch Wireless, Inc. (B): Food for Vultures

By: Stuart C. Gilson

In 2002, a hedge fund investor acquires the distressed bank debt of a bankrupt wireless paging company and converts his holding into common stock of the reorganized entity. Determining his likely return from this investment is challenging, given that the entire... View Details

Keywords: Bankruptcy Reorganization; Distress Investing; Capital Structure; Restructuring; Investment Funds; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Borrowing and Debt; Wireless Technology; Telecommunications Industry

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25 Jul 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

The Evolution of Apple

only 6 million units over the course of 3 years, compared with sales of 300 million PCs during the same period. "Apple's market share has always been lower than its consumer mind share," remarks Yoffie. Birth of The Cool In addition to generally consolidating... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Computer; Technology

01 Dec 1998
News

Faculty Retirements

while also chairing the School's General Management area. As senior associate dean from 1980 to 1989, he completely restructured the School's External Relations activities, creating a new focus on development and revamping the class... View Details

01 Jun 2007
News

A Juicy Story

has always been lower than its consumer mind share,” remarks Yoffie. In addition to generally consolidating and restructuring Apple, Jobs halted production of the Newton, an early version of the personal digital assistant, and closed the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Dec 2002
News

Faculty Updates

Management Program, the Program for Management Development, and the International Senior Management Program in Switzerland. The author or coauthor of eight books and dozens of articles, Yoshino's next book on corporate restructuring in... View Details

10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Privatization and the New European Economy

efforts will be in the long run. "Under our system," he observed, "this is very difficult to do." In contrast, Paul Reutlinger has encountered no such hurdles at Sabena. Long known as Belgium's world airline, the company began to undergo a... View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner; Air Transportation; Transportation

01 Oct 1996
News

The Drive for Excellence: An Interview with Jim Henderson

today's global, competitive environment, restructuring is a way of life. Yet it can severely test what I believe is at the core of management-employee relations -- the notion of trust and fairness. It's important to be open and direct... View Details