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    Jack M. Eckerd

    Eckerd introduced the self-service retailing model in his drug store operations and, in the process, built the largest drug store retail chain in the South. Eckerd was one of the firsts to recognize the potential of anchoring drug store chains next to successful... View Details
    Keywords: Retail

      Thomas C. du Pont

      duPont consolidated the military powder production industry to the point where the duPont Corporation was producing 90% of all explosives in the U.S. In a matter of four years, duPont acquired the stocks of more than 100 of his competitors, eliminating 64 of them. In... View Details
      Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial
      • 18 Feb 2015
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      First Look: February 18

      deterrence effect. This leads to strong enforcement spillovers up the VAT chain. These findings confirm that when taking evasion into account, significant differences emerge between otherwise equivalent forms of taxation. February 2015 Harvard Business Law Review The... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 15 Aug 2017
      • First Look

      First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017

      https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53092 April 2017 Stanford Law Review The New Look of Deal Protection By: Subramanian, Guhan, and Fernan Restrepo Abstract—Deal protection in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) evolves in response to View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 03 Apr 2007
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      First Look: April 3, 2007

      important Delaware case law created a difference in the standard of judicial review for the two basic methods of freezing out minority shareholders. While a freeze-out executed as a statutory merger is subject to stringent... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
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      Shaping the Corporate Image | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

      Works, Worcester, Massachusetts. Scooping up loose iron ore, Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Co., Birmingham, Alabama. By-products coke ovens, Geneva Steel Plant, Geneva, Utah. Spinning wire into suspension cables on Delaware Memorial... View Details
      • 01 Jun 2014
      • News

      School Ties

      the National Math and Science Initiative to share its successful teacher development and advanced placement initiatives with hundreds of partners across the country. Formulating strategy. Concerned about the quality of his state's schools, the chairman of a local View Details
      Keywords: Garry Emmons; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services
      • 05 May 2003
      • Research & Ideas

      Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance

      interests of the corporation. Contrary to popular belief, this does not mean maximizing shareholder value without regard for the effect on employees, customers, suppliers, the environment, or the communities in which the corporation does business. The courts in View Details
      Keywords: by Carla Tishler
      • 01 Apr 2014
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      First Look: April 1

        Publications August 2013 Delaware Journal of Corporate Law Delaware's Choice By: Subramanian, Guhan Abstract—This article first documents the shift to annual elections of all directors at most U.S. corporations and argues that the... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 11 Jun 2013
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      First Look: June 11

      well-established negative correlation between staggered boards (SBs) and firm value could be due to SBs leading to lower value or a reflection of low-value firms' greater propensity to maintain SBs. We analyze the causal question using a natural experiment involving... View Details
      Keywords: Carmen Nobel
      • February 2006 (Revised December 2009)
      • Case

      Pixamo-Inc., AG, or OOO?

      Andrew Prihodko is forming a new venture, Pixamo, the next generation of online photo management and sharing sites. Pixamo's alpha site has generated over 1,000 users and a lot of information about registration and usage patterns. Prihodko must address a number of... View Details
      Keywords: Geographic Location; Globalized Firms and Management; Internet and the Web; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Web Services Industry; Delaware; Switzerland; Ukraine
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      • 25 Jul 2017
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      First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017

      data on appraisal litigation and appraisal outs. I find that appraisal claims have not meaningfully declined in 2016 and that perceived appraisal risk, as measured by the incidence of appraisal outs, has increased since the Dell appraisal in May 2016. After reviewing... View Details
      Keywords: Carmen Nobel
      • 11 Apr 2017
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      First Look at New Research, April 11

      transaction but it was nevertheless approved, should T. Rowe pursue appraisal of its shares in the Delaware courts? Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/317088-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 317-089 T. Rowe... View Details
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      Marcela Sapone

      worldview. Her maternal grandparents, both intellectuals, fled Argentina in a military coup. Her mother, born in Argentina, went to high school in New Jersey and eventually met Sapone’s father there. Married with a young family, the couple moved to View Details
      • 09 Sep 2024
      • HBS Case

      McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace

      boardroom in 2019, moved to the Delaware Court of Chancery in 2021, and ultimately led to a Securities and Exchange Commission sanction in 2023, which attracted HBS Baker Foundation Professor Lynn S. Paine to the tale. An expert on... View Details
      Keywords: by Avery Forman; Food & Beverage
      • 25 Apr 2017
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      First Look at New Research, April 25

      more than $10 billion in deal volume per year, on average, but they also play an important role in defining the relationship between inside and outside shareholders in every public company. Delaware courts and lawyers in transactional... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 12 Jul 2011
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      First Look: July 12

      experiment to examine the effect of management fiduciary duties on equity‐debt conflicts. A 1991 Delaware bankruptcy ruling changed the nature of corporate directors' fiduciary duties in firms incorporated in that state. This change... View Details
      Keywords: Carmen Nobel
      • 09 Jul 2001
      • Research & Ideas

      Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off

      shareholder wealth maximization when fulfilling their fiduciary duty (Orts, 1992), the Delaware Court endorsed this same idea in 1989 when it allowed Time's management to reject a lucrative tender offer from Paramount Communications to... View Details
      Keywords: by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh
      • 26 Feb 2013
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      First Look: Feb. 26

      advantage of a natural experiment involving two offsetting court rulings, separated by several weeks, that affected the antitakeover force of staggered boards for a subset of Delaware firms. We find evidence consistent with the hypothesis... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 28 May 2013
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      First Look: May 28

      Abstract—The well-established negative correlation between staggered boards (SBs) and firm value could be due to SBs leading to lower value or a reflection of low-value firms' greater propensity to maintain SBs. We analyze the causal question using a natural experiment... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne