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- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
Baer and Magowan’s efforts to put together a bid to keep the team in San Francisco kicked into high gear. With financial promises from a stellar list of Northern California investors that included Arthur Rock (MBA ’51), Charles Schwab,... View Details
- 21 Dec 2010
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First Look: December 21
competitor's footsteps and expand overseas? Or could it count on an ever-increasing population of U.S. prisoners to fuel continued growth? Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/710042-PDF-ENG Dow's Bid for Rohm and Haas... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
their supply chains in the developing world. I wanted to get involved in that.” During his year as a Leadership Fellow at the WWF, Murphy served as director of enterprise planning and got to know the organization well enough to make a successful View Details
- 25 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 25
Grupo Beta San Miguel In November 2013, Dr. Jose Pinto, head of Grupo Beta San Miguel (BSM), Mexico's largest private sugar producer, is weighing the future prospects of the Mexican sugar industry as he considers whether BSM should bid on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
sites and perform other labor-intensive high-tech work. A year later, that company is up and running. CitySoft (www.citysoft.com), which harnesses the computer skills of young adults from low-income Boston neighborhoods, has just completed its eleventh contract and is... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 02 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 2
Southeastern and Icahn oppose the deal, the specifics of both the Dell/Silver Lake bid and of Southeastern's/Icahn's leveraged recapitalization proposals, and the events that took place. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 27
jointly develops an offshore tract-performs relative to a solo firm. I employ a regression discontinuity strategy based on bids in first-price sealed-bid auctions for the rights to develop leases. By focusing on leases where one... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 25, 2007
the West Zone concession by Maynilad Water Services. Over the next decade, Manila Water turned in an impressive and profitable performance, while Maynilad failed. Describes the management actions of Manila Water and poses the question of whether, and how much, they... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
pay phones in Tanzania - and recently won a bid to become Ghana's Second National Operator. A Liberian national who spent much of her childhood in English boarding schools, Maddy holds foreign service and economics degrees from Georgetown... View Details
- 12 Dec 2017
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New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
a bid to save the planet. The narrative then reaches back to each person’s childhood and shows the individual growing—step by step—into the person he or she will ultimately become. Significantly, as we follow each leader’s... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 21
case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/411105-PDF-ENG Dharavi: Developing Asia's Largest Slum (B) Lakshmi Iyer and John D. MacomberHarvard Business School Supplement 711-107 In July 2009, as investors prepared to submit financial bids... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
yet-to-be-constructed plant 40 miles from Caen. Viana’s bid to produce luxury madeleines in a new, nearby location with 16 of the original workers was the obvious favorite, but it required an estimated 2.8 million he had yet to secure.... View Details
- 14 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 14
817-016 Mark43 The founders of Mark43, an early-stage startup that provides software for law enforcement agencies, must decide whether to bid on a request for proposals (RFP) from the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD). On the one hand,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 29, 2007
PeopleSoft: A Case Study Authors:D. Millstone and Guhan Subramanian Periodical:Harvard Negotiation Law Review (winter 2007) Abstract This case describes Oracle's hostile takeover bid to acquire PeopleSoft, which began with an unsolicited... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
their reliability, previous business experience, and bid amount. The duo then went about improving the business, which had three on-campus stores that offered laundry, dry cleaning, and alterations to the HBS community, ultimately... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
The company also made a big push into the retail market, making sure it got shelf space in its bid to gain mass appeal. President Gerard Meyer (MBA 1988) sums up the pitch to major retailers: Here's your chance to get a piece of a $260... View Details
- 07 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 7
case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/512039-PDF-ENG INNOVA-MEX's Bid for ENKONTROL Ramana Nanda, William R. Kerr, and Carin-Isabel KnoopHarvard Business School Case 812-008 In their second year, two Mexican HBS MBAs joined forces to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
that related to risk. Here’s a bunch of people giving money at 50 percent to projects that really should only be charged 10 percent. Well, if markets work correctly, after a little while people will come rushing in, bidding up the price... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 12 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 12, 2007
sell the company. Six months have passed since Ligand began soliciting bidders, but no buyer has emerged. With the sale of the company appearing to have stalled, Third Point has to decide whether to restart the bidding process, hold onto... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 28
after Transatlantic's failed effort at a merger of equals, and as several other unsuccessful bids for the company, one that was hostile. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/313017-PDF-ENG Mekanism: Engineering Viral Marketing Thales... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne