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- 29 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 29, 2008
the U.S. and its new "Solution Pack" in its domestic market, Japan. The case provides rich detail on the firm's evolution from a manufacturer of thermometers to a seller of commodity products like syringes to a diversified firm... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Numbers on Social Investments
financing as compared to all other investors. This allowed them to diversify their holdings across a range of companies and to minimize dilution as the companies raised follow on money. Diversification and investing in additional rounds... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 22 Jan 2020
- News
What It Takes
make that senior person make the decision so if they ever turn you down, you can get angry at them. There's all kind of interpersonal ways to try and manipulate outcomes. What we did is, I figured out all the ways a system could be manipulated, and stop it. Fortunately... View Details
- 12 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs
of resumes. Experienced eyes can point out immediate red flags and give you specific areas you may want to probe for a particular candidate. Invite an investor to help diversify an otherwise homogeneous interview team. This can be a game... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 01 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 1
diversified conglomerate in Thailand and expanded the business in Southeast Asia and China. While growing the business, he and his brothers created a holding company to both maintain and separate the interests of the family from the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Getting Down to the Business of Creativity
the transition to a more diversified product line based on the company's proprietary technologies. In one instance, Fuji manufactures protective film for flat panel displays from cellulose triacetate, the same material that is coated with... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
restructure and diversify the giant family firm and turn it into a global enterprise. How do you see the role of business now and in the future? Consumers are demanding a new template for corporations. They are not satisfied with glossy... View Details
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
competing stakeholder demands, keep the business running, and ultimately paid back every dollar it owed to its creditors by selling the company’s core assets—its travel plazas—to its main competitor in 2010. Since that time, the company had returned to a healthy... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 09 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 9
capabilities" view of business groups-that such groups have done the most to invest in R&D and other skills necessary to combine inputs in ways that lead to greater added value. Moreover, our finding that Indian business groups have grown larger and more View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
radically transformed them. Jesse Philips (MBA '39), for example, bought a small manufacturing firm in 1957 and parlayed it into a diversified billion-dollar corporation. Similarly, Robert Cizik (MBA '58) developed Cooper Industries, a... View Details
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
permanent cash flow shocks and transitory discount rate shocks to asset prices and returns. An increase in the cross-country correlations of cash flow shocks raises the risk of a globally diversified portfolio at all horizons. By... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 18
to the next level of growth. The acquisition would allow the Group to diversify across verticals, customers, and geographies, market a wide range of services to Satyam's strong customer base, and capitalize on common support systems in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
School Case 209-105 Most large companies operate in more than one business. Valuing a diversified company requires separate valuations for each of its businesses and for the corporate headquarters. This method of valuing a company by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
office products, building products, and paper, had expanded production capacity to meet the strong demand for paper in the late 1980s but bore the brunt when demand began to taper off in 1990. The company — which started up in 1957, rapidly View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
ownership is concentrated in a few individuals. In contrast, those multinational corporations surveyed, where ownership is diversified and anonymous, had no misgivings about the link between social policy and financial return. According... View Details
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context of both private and publicly-traded companies, and at different stages of company development—from startup to mature listed company. Our cases include private equity, venture-backed, and family-controlled companies, as well as companies with a large View Details