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- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Innovation: Crowdfunding College Costs
model has evolved since its launch. "We used to charge a transaction fee, but moved away from that for strategic reasons," Cordero says. "Now it's simply about customer acquisition and building a community." (Still, GradSave is currently... View Details
- March 1978 (Revised June 1983)
- Case
Kennecott Copper Corp.
Involves a $550 million cash tender offer by Kennecott Copper Corp. for all of the outstanding common shares of the Carborundum Corp. View Details
Fruhan, William E., Jr. "Kennecott Copper Corp." Harvard Business School Case 278-143, March 1978. (Revised June 1983.)
- November 2010
- Teaching Note
The Walt Disney Company and Pixar Inc.: To Acquire or Not to Acquire? TN
By: Juan Alcacer and David J. Collis
Teaching Note for 709462 and 709489. View Details
Herbert J. Siegel
Siegel built the once, small boat maker into one of the largest and most powerful media holding companies. Acquiring two independent television stations with the Chris-Craft acquisition in 1968, Siegel sold the boat business in 1980 and... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
Charles R. Shoemate
any U.S.-based operation. Shoemate presided over the successful spin-off of BestFoods and orchestrated its eventual, highly profitable acquisition by Unilever. View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
Walter A. Munns
Munns presided over the continued growth and diversification of Smith Kline. He orchestrated strategic acquisitions in the consumer and medical business arenas, introduced “Contac” and other Smith Kline medicines to the international... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare
Donald C. McGraw
McGraw initiated a period of diversification and expansion for McGraw-Hill, moving beyond book and magazine publishing. He orchestrated the successful acquisition of three industry reference sources: Standard & Poor’s Corporation, F.... View Details
Keywords: Publishing & Print Media
Charles W. Moritz
Moritz took the helm of D&B just after it had acquired the major market research firm, A. C. Nielsen. Moritz led the successful integration of D&B’s largest acquisition and established a pattern of smooth and profitable mergers.... View Details
Keywords: Services
- 28 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 28
provides excerpts from four Chairman's letters to shareholders from Pfizer's annual reports, followed by a description of the circumstances behind each letter. In the 2000 annual report, then-CEO Bill Steere discusses Pfizer's rise to industry prominence with the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Financial Management of Smaller Firms - Course Catalog
challenges encountered when acquiring a small business. We then learn about different ways to fund a search through five other acquisitions by HBS graduates. We then focus on the market for smaller firms including cases about private... View Details
Thomas S. Murphy
houses) including the 1986 pivotal acquisition of American Broadcasting Company, Murphy built a communications giant known for tight financial control and strong, lean management. View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
Edward G. Jefferson
requirements. Though deemed expensive at the time ($7.3 billion), the Conoco acquisition was instrumental in securing duPont’s growth and positioning the company for the future. View Details
Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial
- 03 Oct 2017
- News
Can Bezos’s Ties to Boston—and HBS—Seal the Deal?
electronics devices to Amazon’s online storefront. HBS would continue to play a role in Amazon’s development, with the article noting that two of Amazon’s earliest acquisitions included local companies founded by Warren Adams (MBA 1998)... View Details
Keywords: Retail Trade
J. Chadbourn Bolles
Under Bolles dynamic direction which spanned 34 years, Chadbourn grew from a small hosiery operation with $500,000 in annual sales to an international and diversified textile and apparel complex with $68 million in sales. Through strategic View Details
Keywords: Fabric & Apparel
- 2010
- Supplement
Berkshire Partners: Bidding for Carter's, Spreadsheet Supplement
By: Malcolm Baker and James Quinn
Keywords: Auctions; Valuation; Leveraged Buyouts; Mergers and Acquisitions; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Retail Industry; Massachusetts
Baker, Malcolm, and James Quinn. "Berkshire Partners: Bidding for Carter's, Spreadsheet Supplement." Harvard Business Publishing Supplement, 2010. Electronic. (Spreadsheet supplement for case number 205058.)
Irving S. Shapiro
Initially making a name for himself in politics, Shapiro joined duPont in 1951 as a lawyer, handling some of its most important acquisitions and antitrust cases. His negotiating skills, coupled with his extensive political connections,... View Details
Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial
- April 1992
- Article
Does Corporate Performance Improve after Mergers?
Healy, Paul M., Krishna G. Palepu, and Richard S. Ruback. "Does Corporate Performance Improve after Mergers?" Journal of Financial Economics 31, no. 2 (April 1992): 135–175.
- December 2010 (Revised February 2011)
- Teaching Note
Dow's Bid for Rohm and Haas (TN)
By: Benjamin C. Esty
Teaching Note for 211020. View Details
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Field Course: Value Creation in Small and Medium Firms - Course Catalog
take VCSME together with the field course Entrepreneurship through Acquisition (EtA). Career Focus: This course is geared towards students interested in Entrepreneurship through Acquisition including Search... View Details
George H. Love
Love took control of his uncle’s struggling coal operation and built it into the largest and most successful coal mining operation in the US. Through a series of acquisitions and mergers, Love was able to achieve broader economies of... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture & Mining