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- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
A wave of mergers is sweeping the country, activity that recalls the 1980s, the 1960s, and even, some say, the empire-building of a century ago. In the following article, nine HBS professors comment on the current M&As; phenomenon and how... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 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
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Long-Term Interest: Bill Crozier, a Banker Pegged to the Customer
union of the two banks with an eye to the horizon. "Some years ago, BayBanks might have been seen as big enough to represent the northeastern United States adequately," Crozier explains. "But then so many large mergers started coming... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 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
- 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
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Spangler, Former UNC President, Candidate for Board of Overseers
merger of the Bank of North Carolina with the North Carolina National Bank Corporation—now NationsBank, one of the largest financial institutions in the United States. A longtime friend of HBS, Spangler received the School's Alumni... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jan 2009
- News
Robert F. Greenhill, MBA 1962
achievement possibilities are limitless.” One of Wall Street’s preeminent investment bankers, Bob Greenhill has helped shape some of the world’s most successful corporations. Greenhill earned a reputation as a man of action during his 31 years at Morgan Stanley, where... View Details
- 24 May 2017
- News
John H. McArthur, MBA 1959, DBA 1963
legal and administrative effort. In Canada, he served as a founding director of the Canada Development Investment Corporation. Locally, he helped engineer the merger of Brigham and Women’s (BWH) and Mass General Hospitals. “John is the... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 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
- 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
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Steve Schwarzman
companies with annual revenues exceeding $85 billion. Under Schwarzman’s leadership, the firm has diversified into hedge funds, real estate, corporate debt, restructurings, and mergers and acquisitions. In late March, Blackstone surprised... View Details
- 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
- 18 Jul 2018
- News
Ensuring HBS Remains a Dynamic Community
expressing my opinions and making presentations,” Lien explains. After HBS, Lien returned to Morgan Stanley, rising to executive director of mergers and acquisitions. She then moved to San Francisco, eventually leaving investment banking... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Saving the Steel Industry
United Steelworkers (USW) union as an “unsecured creditor” — much like a financial institution or corporate supplier — and used his Wall Street knowledge and contacts to facilitate mergers aimed at strengthening the industry. In exchange... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Researching Business and Politics in China and Southeast Asia
years,” she says, “there has been a massive increase in overseas investments and overseas mergers and acquisitions.” “Historically,” she adds, “we thought of China as a place where foreign firms go to invest. Now, China is becoming the... View Details
- 21 Apr 2014
- News
A lifetime of quiet leadership
which operated in a way that had never been done on Wall Street: Whitehead’s team proactively sought business and also became involved in facilitating mergers and acquisitions and IPOs. This spirit of innovation also informed Whitehead’s... View Details
- 06 Dec 2017
- News
Puzzle Master
had this advice for those interested in mergers & acquisitions: “...the best thing you can do is to develop an expert-level knowledge or—if applicable—execute one of the many workstreams required for a successful transaction,” she said,... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
John (“Bo”) Kemp
in New York. There, frustrated by the difficulty of learning financial procedures such as how to structure a merger or an LBO, he decided to write a 300-page manual explaining such complex processes. His how-to book proved so useful that... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
The World at a Click
two-year-old, name-your-price discount site gaining fame of late with humorous ads featuring pitchman William Shatner. Both companies have grown rapidly since entering the online market, and with consolidation already under way (Travelocity just completed its View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelly