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- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Raymond V. Gilmartin (MBA '68)
ability to refocus the company on its primary mission-discovering breakthrough drugs-soon earned him the respect of Wall Street, too. Between 1994 and 2001, Merck launched an unprecedented seventeen new drugs and increased revenues from $15 billion to nearly $50... View Details
- 01 Aug 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should CEOs Worry About ‘Too Big to Succeed?’
for systematically divesting assets or businesses? Does this suggest an entirely different approach to bigness on the part of regulators, academics, and others? Instead of "too big to fail" should we be worried about "too... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Laura Scher of Working Assets
my brother, sister, and me during the hot summer months," Scher recalls. Scher attended Yale as an undergraduate, where she was active in the movement for divestment in South Africa, and then spent a year at the Institute for... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 29 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
Why CEOs Are Not Plug-and-Play
divest Fiat's core automobile business; when that was rejected by creditors and shareholders, he resigned in 2003. Consider, too, John Trani, who in 1997 left a long career at GE Plastics for toolmaker and hardware manufacturer Stanley... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
What You Know Depends on Where You Go
inefficiencies, as units within them typically performed below stand-alone peers. Divesting assets to focus on core competencies became the accepted wisdom. Applying this logic, multi-industry conglomerates in other nations, such as the... View Details
- 06 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 6, 2007
knowledge-based organization. Purchase this supplement: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=608073 Norway Sells Wal-Mart Harvard Business School Case 308-019 In June 2006, Norway's Pension Fund decided to divest... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Nov 2013
- News
Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins
Samsung's devices, but my bet is Google gains the most from Android's success. So finding a way to divest its hardware business may have been wise. But I'm not sure any one move would have been enough. Perhaps the best he could have done... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 10
introduces methods for increasing the efficiency of retail store liquidation, which we define as the time-constrained divestment of retail outlets through an in-store sale of inventory. The retail industry depends extensively on... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 09 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Hold or Fold? Sizing Up Business Risk
divest a recent acquisition or buy other assets to build this business area would check the same column. The law partner who is thinking about retirement from a lucrative law practice and who really wants to go into teaching and shape... View Details
- 18 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
GM’s IPO: Back to the Future
important, by establishing a liquid market in securities, the IPO will open the door to a progressive program for selling off the government's stake in the company. This is the only way for the Treasury to divest of its holding and will... View Details
- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
Divergence between rich and poor countries since 1820. Download working paper: http://www.nber.org/papers/w19010 Improving Store Liquidation By: Craig, Nathan, and Ananth Raman Abstract—Store liquidation is the time-constrained divestment... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 8
losses are concentrated among public-to-private buyouts and transactions involving firms in the service and retail sectors. But target firms also create more new jobs at new establishments, and they acquire and divest establishments more... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
Where is Home for the Global Firm?
outsourcing operation of General Electric and was the largest outsourcing operation in India. In 2005 GE decided to partially divest this subsidiary to a number of private equity players. By 2007, the firm was named Genpact and was... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 15
establishments, and they acquire and divest establishments more rapidly. When we consider these additional adjustment margins, net relative job losses at target firms are less than 1% of initial employment. In contrast, the sum of gross... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The New Math of Customer Relationships
that has encountered challenges has been ServiceMaster. To cope with market challenges, the company divested itself of some of the businesses that provided its cultural core. Q: Will you update the books? If so, which new companies would... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Marketing Wine to the World
industry? A: I think there is a good chance that some of these large firms will divest underperforming wineries eventually. For starters, we know that several large firms have chosen not to participate aggressively in the acquisition... View Details
- 16 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 16
innovation performance such as firm productivity and profitability, (d) mergers, and (e) divestments as providing context or "shocks" to an activity system and their value as an empirical source of exogenous variation.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth
South Africa divestment movement to graduate studies at Harvard Business School. “When I first visited the School, I was trying to figure out if there was a place for me. I was particularly interested in the DBA Program because I knew I... View Details
- 07 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 7
building a position in gas production or divest these activities? Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/Airgas--Inc-/an/714517-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 114-096 Board of Directors: An Introductory Note No abstract... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 5
firms that are well-connected to each other through social ties, and that such acquisitions are more likely to subsequently be divested for performance-related reasons. Taken together, our results suggest that social ties between the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne