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  • March 2011
  • Supplement

H Partners and Six Flags (B)

By: Robin Greenwood and Michael Gorzynski
Rehan Jaffer, the founder of hedge fund H Partners, is considering what to do with his investment in Six Flags. H Partners had invested a significant amount of the firm's capital in the senior bonds of U.S.-based Six Flags, following that company's bankruptcy filing. View Details
Keywords: Equity; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Business and Shareholder Relations; Price; Acquisition; Decisions; Borrowing and Debt; Investment Funds; Opportunities; Bonds; Investment Activism; Financial Services Industry; United States
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Greenwood, Robin, and Michael Gorzynski. "H Partners and Six Flags (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 211-096, March 2011.
  • March 1998 (Revised November 2004)
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FAG Kugelfischer-A German Restructuring

By: Stuart C. Gilson
A large German manufacturer of ball bearings and precision machinery experiences severe financial difficulty brought on by poor management practices, an ill-conceived acquisition of a former East German ball-bearings company, and an industry recession. The company... View Details
Keywords: Accounting; Acquisition; Restructuring; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Machinery and Machining; Policy; Resignation and Termination; Management Practices and Processes; Performance Evaluation; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Europe; Germany; United States
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Gilson, Stuart C. "FAG Kugelfischer-A German Restructuring." Harvard Business School Case 298-046, March 1998. (Revised November 2004.)
  • 16 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 16

defendants. The likelihood of being named is greater for audit committee members and directors who sell stock during the class period. Named directors receive more negative recommendations from Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), a... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 04 Feb 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Putting Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector

social value, rather than personal or shareholder wealth. Our definition of social entrepreneurship extends beyond more narrow definitions of social entrepreneurship that simply apply business expertise and market-based skills to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Feb 2004
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Center Focuses on Europe

The Center runs roundtable discussions that give faculty an opportunity to meet with the business community.— Anders Sjöman Another trend, just as in the U.S., is shareholder activism and corporate governance rules, which have been made... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
  • 24 Apr 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Managing Alignment as a Process

strategic guidelines to shape strategies at lower levels of the organization. Board and shareholder alignment: The corporation's board of directors reviews, approves, and monitors the corporate strategy. Corporate office to corporate... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Consumer Products; Retail
  • 16 Nov 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Transitions of Power Are Difficult. What Joe Biden and Other Incoming Leaders Need to Know.

“comvoc”), and leave their differentiated personal selves and external group memberships behind. All it took to motivate people, it was thought, was to offer financial incentives, and good results would follow. Well, we know where an over-emphasis on View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 28, 2010

economic, institutional, and cultural setting of Germany. Publisher's Link: http://www.chbeck.de/productview.aspx?product=795301&toc=3264 Investor Behaviour in a Nascent Capital Market: Scottish Bank Shareholders in the Nineteenth... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Aug 2010
  • Research & Ideas

The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization

United States. But because most American corporations are currently designed and mandated to fulfill dA [the drive to acquire] exclusively, both top management and shareholders might object to incurring any costs in Mexico beyond those... View Details
Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence
  • 16 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 16, 2008

respond to a revised proposal from two private equity firms to take the company private. In November of 2006, the Board had unanimously approved an offer of $37.60 per share after going through intense negotiations with numerous firms, but institutional View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 27

insurance against the comfort it might provide to skittish RPGXX shareholders and the increased flexibility it would allow in investing RPGXX's assets. This case provides a brief history and explanation of money market funds, the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Jan 2016
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January 26, 2016

ways. In the light of these wide-ranging effects, much scholarship has been devoted to specifying the responsibilities of managers of for-profit business enterprises. Much of this scholarship is framed in relation to “shareholder primacy”—the view that managers should... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 15

throughout the fourth quarter of 2008, Merrill's financial condition deteriorated at an alarming rate, with expected 4Q08 losses ballooning from $5.3 billion in November to over $12 billion by mid-December. Shareholders of both companies... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Sep 2006
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Porsche’s Risky Roll on an SUV

of the largest shareholders in both VW and Porsche, who sits in both supervisory boards. Location In A Globalized World As Fear and Knoop looked more closely into the Leipzig decision, they realized that the Leipzig plant only employs... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Auto; Manufacturing
  • 30 May 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers

long-term oriented entrepreneur (and involving an admittedly extreme problem of succession), is more typical than atypical around the world. Even some of the most famous names in European business still have founders or families involved. The widely dispersed View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 17

independent of the shortcomings in the regulatory system. Managers and boards of directors in scores of systemically important firms failed to protect employees, customers, or shareholders and placed the global financial system at risk. I... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Nov 2008
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First Look: November 25, 2008

human resource functions. Pentagram's second principle was generosity. All partners were equal shareholders in the firm. Pentagram branched out to New York in the early 1980s, and in the late 1980s, Hinrichs established a San Francisco... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017

boycott as well as a shareholder proposal to change its policies on political contributions. The case covers current campaign finance regulations as they relate to business as well as Target's lobbying activities regarding online sales... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Mar 2016
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March 8, 2016

implications whereby sustaining a high level of service quality is associated with the incumbent attracting and retaining more profitable customers over time. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=39914 Staggered Boards and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 May 2003
  • Research & Ideas

What Your Competition is Telling You

take the following proactive steps: I ask my clients to answer the question "Why wouldn't our company want to be that competitor?"— Liam Fahey,Leadership Forum Find your competitive comfort zone. Your obligation to maximize View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
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