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- 01 Mar 2011
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Tax and Grow
investment. But even cash disgorged through dividends, share repurchases, or mergers would have a potentially stimulative effect compared with corporations banking the funds. It is tempting to pin hopes of an economic recovery on a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Shareholders' Value?
if one excludes new start-ups, most new capital is provided by debt. Of course, liquidity in the stock market does enable investors to capture gains on their investments, and it also enables mergers and acquisitions. To provide adequate... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Daniel Vasella
this one played out brilliantly. Within a decade, Dr. Daniel Vasella (PMD 57, 1989) rocketed through the ranks of Sandoz and in 1996 led the firm’s merger with Ciba-Geigy, emerging as CEO of the new company called Novartis, based in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Alumni Books
mistakes that doom individual investors to market underperformance. Investment Banking: Valuation, Leveraged Buyouts, and Mergers & Acquisitions by Joshua Rosenbaum (MBA ’01) and Joshua Pearl (Wiley) As the world of finance returns to the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
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Roger Ullman: Going Green with E2
Can white-collar corporate America do business with “green” environmentalists? Roger Ullman (MBA ’89) thinks so. Ullman, who worked in the mergers and acquisitions division of Merrill Lynch for twelve years, retired from his post as a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
School Ties
from a cross-section of society. The group issued a plan that became the foundation for Delaware's winning entry for the Race to the Top program. Strategy implementation. Local business executives are lending their expertise to help educators complete a huge View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Four Promoted to Full Professor
activity in Europe and Asia and how managers can use restructuring techniques to help the stock market more accurately value their companies. Gilson, who was previously on the finance faculty at the University of Texas at Austin, has taught courses in corporate... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Alumni Books
of how the historic merger between the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and CBOT almost didn’t happen. She details the reasons behind the derivatives market’s spectacular growth and explains how derivatives affect the lives of average... View Details
- 25 Jun 2019
- News
After the Storm
of a merger with supermodel Petra Nemcova’s Happy Hearts Fund. The organization is volunteer-driven and prides itself on showing up early and staying late in the wake of natural disasters, working closely with local agencies to provide,... View Details
Keywords: Paul Flannery
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Case Study: Golden Ticket
other gate-related event services. The company—which formed in late 2014 in a merger of a ticket-selling operation and a youth sports–focused custom commemoratives business—currently works with about two dozen schools in California, has... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Ask the Expert: In Security
says. Companies are inherently vulnerable to cyberattacks because the very processes that enable growth also expose vulnerabilities. Mergers and acquisitions, for example, create confusion between converging IT infrastructures and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Courting the Poor
this merger as well as to lay out guidelines for future growth initiatives. Throughout this discussion issues of cultural fit for employees and customers as well as the limitations of the CEO’s charisma are investigated. Frei hopes that... View Details
- 28 Sep 2015
- News
Rockin’ for a Cause
“getting a chance to step out of those roles and cut loose with music we love is also just a blast.” When Scheel is not cutting loose onstage, he’s in charge of mergers and acquisitions, corporate strategy, and technology partnerships at... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
No Bull — Nancy E. Havens-Hasty (MBA 1971)
the Honeywell/GE merger for the Boston Consulting Group. Rather, she was assigned a client her bosses thought was more befitting a "lady": Mrs. Smith's Pie Company. Even that was a controversial assignment, her superiors fretted, because... View Details
Keywords: Linda Goodspeed
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Hawes Family Funds New Classroom Building
with a recruiter in an HBS corridor in 1969 led Hawes to a small Connecticut company that focused on insurance company mergers and acquisitions. In 1972, he ventured out on his own and founded Insurance Investment Associates, which soon... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
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The Future Is Now: 21st-Century Business Pondered at HBS Forum
there will be entities that claim they are human because they will be copies of human thinking." As humans, he said, "we will put devices in our own brains to expand our own thinking so there will be a real merger of biological and... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
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Charting the Luminary Leadership in Professional Service Firms
rampant turmoil within the sector also surprised us. During the course of our research, there were dozens of significant mergers and acquisitions. Many leading firms went public. After decades of relative stability, most professional... View Details
- 03 Mar 2014
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A Life Transformed
says Parija, who later became head of corporate banking following a merger that created a much larger institution. "My contribution to the bank's income was significant, and I was rewarded with company-paid business education," he says.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Winning Legally
Greenspan’s tacit approval, used previously unexploited provisions in the Glass-Steagall and Bank Holding Company acts to push through a merger that ultimately changed the regula-tory environment for the entire U.S. financial services... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 20 Dec 2018
- News
Baker Library Webinar Features Resources for Alumni
ahead of time by participants, Haley said the pair was able to run live searches based on their immediate research needs to demonstrate research tools. Alumni asked about specific topics, such as wanting to find statistics on the worldwide production and sales of wine,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley