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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
Lucio A. Noto
Noto first concentrated on consolidating and improving efficiency in Mobil's oil, gas and chemical businesses, including trimming bureaucracy at the corporate level. Noto also revamped Mobil's retail gasoline business, being one of the first companies to install such... View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
Robert J. Eaton
Following Lee Iacocca as head of Chrysler, Eaton led the company to a banner year in 1994 with earnings of $3.7 billion and sales of $52.2 billion, both far above previous records. In 1996, Eaton’s Chrysler led auto makers in profits thanks to its newly innovative and... View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
- 18 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 18, 2006
debt needed to fund the transaction. Covers issues such as identifying and attracting bidders; dealing with the concerns of the managers of the selling company; negotiating issues in a definitive merger agreement; and post-sale issues.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
Langbourne M. Williams, Jr.
After launching a stockholder attack on the management of Freeport Sulphur in 1930, Williams found himself in the CEO position three years later. Under his direction, Freeport experienced a major turnaround in performance and became the premier supplier of sulphur in... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture & Mining
Frederick C. Crawford
a viable and thriving business, increasing revenues 18-fold in the process. He orchestrated the merger of Thompson Products with Ramo-Wooldridge to form TRW, Incorporated in 1958. View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
Shirish Nimgaonkar
entrepreneurial companies with significant growth and 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, View Details
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
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Lehman Brothers Records | Baker Library
Lehman Brothers Records The Lehman Brothers Records document the history of the investment banking firm from 1868 until 2007. The records of the investment firm Kuhn, Loeb & Co., prior to its 1977 merger with Lehman Brothers, are also... View Details
- 20 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Big Deal: Reflections on the Megamerger of American and US Airways
announced merger between American Airlines and US Airways reminds us of the critical role that bankruptcy law, represented by Chapter 11 of the US Bankruptcy Code, has played in the ongoing economic recovery. Like other recent large... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Driving the family business onto a global stage
vehicles, Mahindra has engineered mergers and acquisitions that have catapulted the Mumbai-based corporation onto the world stage. Today, the multibillion-dollar enterprise is involved in information technology, logistics, infrastructure... View Details
Matthew Reardon
investors, innovative companies at all stages of growth, and higher education institutions. Matt has extensive experience in early and late stage venture financings, growth equity and leveraged recapitalizations, mergers and acquisitions,... View Details
Keywords: Legal
William Durant
its own sources of parts. In order to realize this vision, he created General Motors through a merger of Buick, Cadillac, Oldsmobile, Oakland (later Pontiac) and numerous parts manufacturers. After losing active control of GM in 1910,... View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
Willard F. Rockwell, Jr.
Having worked in many of the company's subsidiaries since graduating from college, Rockwell Jr. assumed leadership from his father in 1967 and expanded the company across the globe through a series of mergers and acquisitions. View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
- 18 Jan 2018
- News
Making a Mark in Multicultural Marketing
the first in her extended family to attend college. Before starting Mirror Digital, she worked in the media and technology group at Morgan Stanley, executing corporate finance and merger and acquisition transactions, and in strategic... View Details
- 24 Jul 2014
- Op-Ed
Reform Tax Law to Keep US Firms at Home
I am a Professor of Finance at Harvard Business School, a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Recent merger transactions highlight long-simmering problems in the US... View Details
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Kira Epler
with a population of about 1,500 people. After completing her engineering degree, Kira worked in Dow Chemical's Capital Projects Group. "I noticed that engineering was important," Kira says, "but that all the interesting and fun decisions—about things... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Jesse Markham Dies at 93
Jesse Markham, an economist who joined the HBS faculty in 1968, died in his sleep on June 21 in Nashua, New Hampshire. Markham, whose work focused on price theory and industrial organization, was a well-known proponent of the “rule of reason” to determine whether a... View Details