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Andre Meyer
Meyer was a skilled financier, with a great talent at devising and orchestrating mergers and other complex business deals. He engineered Lazard’s purchase of Avis Rent–A-Car System for $7 million, and its resale to ITT a few years later... View Details
Keywords: Finance
Richard K. Mellon
Mellon was responsible for the reorganization of the financial structure of Mellon enterprises. He consolidated several family-managed companies, the most significant of which was the merger of two competing Mellon institutions – the... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
BOOK: Creating Value through Corporate Restructuring
downsizing at the Scott Paper Company under "Chainsaw" Al Dunlap and the merger of Chase Manhattan Bank with Chemical Bank. Based on interviews with CEOs, managers, investors, bankers, management consultants, and attorneys, the cases look... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
William M. Rosson
Shunning critics, Rosson introduced two new smokeless tobacco products in the early eighties – Hawken moist snuff and Levi Garrett shredded tobacco. Through targeted advertising and promotions, these products went on to capture 25% of the moist and 7% of the dry... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
John S. Reed
of the first to proliferate ATMs) and through shrewd cost management, Reed posted stellar financial returns which set the stage for the firm's eventual merger with The Travelers Group. View Details
Keywords: Finance
C. Donald Dallas
Dallas grew Revere Copper & Brass, a merger of six brass and copper companies, into a $100 million annual business. Dallas, keen on communication, wrote a monthly letter, which was sent to the homes of all Revere employees. Following... View Details
Keywords: Metals
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Message and the Media: Advertising's Brave New World
On the regulatory front, the Telecommunications Act of 1996 and a relaxation of restrictions on multiple ownership of media outlets are realigning and consolidating the power of media ownership. Lastly, in the economic arena, a wave of View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
Leonard D. Schaeffer
one of Business Week’s top 50 performers. It has also been named the “most admired health care company” by Fortune from 1998 to 2003. By 2004, Schaeffer had built Wellpoint into a $19 billion operation and oversaw its merger with Anthem... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare
Sanford I. Weill
At Travelers, Weill focused on growing the company’s assets with a particular emphasis on global expansion, a mission that led to the creation of Citigroup Inc., following the acquisition of Salomon Brothers in 1997 and the famous Citibank View Details
Keywords: Finance
George W. Merck
Merck played a pivotal role in the development of Merck & Company as a pharmaceutical research powerhouse. He created the firm’s first research division in 1933 and orchestrated the 1953 merger with Sharp and Dohme. During his tenure,... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare
James S. McDonnell
McDonnell built one of the most successful government-contracted industrial space and aircraft production businesses in the U.S. His company produced the Phantom jet fighters, the Mercury Space Capsule, and the Gemini spacecraft. In 1967, he orchestrated the View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
Roy L. Ash
In 1953, Ash and his partner, Tex Thornton, bought Litton Industries, a small West Coast producer of microwave tubes. Litton embarked on an aggressive acquisition course. By 1961, the same year Ash became president of the company, Litton had completed 25 View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
Hugh L. McColl, Jr.
tripled. In 1998, McColl oversaw the merger of NationsBank and the Bank of America which resulted in the creation of the second largest bank in the United States. McColl presided over the merger of the... View Details
Keywords: Finance
Stephen W. Sanger
company to the top spot in cereal sales, outpacing rival Kellogg’s for the first time since 1906. In 2001, Sanger led the merger of General Mills and Pillsbury to create one of the largest food companies in the world. In the process, he... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
Henry C. Alexander
business that had previously come in by itself. His greatest achievement was the merger of JP Morgan with the Guaranty Bank. Prior to the merger, Alexander served as the chief executive of JP Morgan & Company from... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 02 Nov 2020
- What Do You Think?
Is Antitrust Just a Quaint Notion in the Digital Age?
merger of Office Depot and Staples, ending a marriage that would have reduced the number of big box office supply specialty chains to two, the other being Office Max. In seeking to stop the merger, the Federal Trade Commission argued that... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail; Technology; Telecommunications; Communications; Consumer Products; Service
Walter V. Shipley
company. His skills as a manager helped Chemical successfully complete two large mergers in 1991 and 1996, the latter of which involved the purchase of Chase Manhattan, the name under which Chemical now operates, and created one of the... View Details
Keywords: Finance
Shirish Nimgaonkar
successful exits. Shirish was also a Managing Director at a global investment bank, where he advised several leading high growth technology companies across US, Europe and Asia on this growth strategy, mergers and acquisitions, capital... View Details
- 03 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 3, 2007
annulled the merger—which the European Commission had approved two years earlier—after a group of independent music labels complained about the merger's effect on competition. While Sony and BMG were defending the merger in court, EMI... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Starting Now — Bruce Wasserstein (MBA 1971)
In the high-powered, high-stakes world of mergers and acquisitions, Bruce Wasserstein is considered something of a legend. He was the wunderkind who helped make First Boston Corporation a leader in M&A in the early 1980s -- and then shook... View Details