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Conrad N. Hilton
Starting with one 40-room hotel, Hilton created a massive hotel franchising chain through selective acquisitions including the Waldorf-Astoria. By the end of the 1970s, there were about 250 Hilton Hotels around the globe and 136 Hilton... View Details
Keywords: Restaurants & Lodging
Harrington Drake
Drake presided over a decade of top financial performance – growing revenues from $480 million to over $2 billion. He achieved ten consecutive years of top market value performance and expanded D&B’s core services, most notably with the View Details
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Hamish Maxwell
Maxwell presided over the major diversification of Philip Morris through the acquisitions of Kraft and General Foods. In so doing, Maxwell created the largest consumer goods company in the world and significantly lessened Philip Morris’... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
O. Wayne Rollins
In 1964, Rollins completed what is believed to be the first leveraged buy-out in business history through the acquisition of Orkin Exterminating Company. Through a number of acquisitions, he parlayed this initial company into one of the... View Details
Keywords: Services
- 23 Apr 2014
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A corporate leader’s legacy in India
simple one—that I have always stood up for what I consider to be the right thing,” says Tata, who served as chairman of the Tata Group from 1991 until his retirement in 2012. The Mumbai-based firm now operates in 80 countries and comprises more than 100 companies. With... View Details
J. Larry Nichols
Nichols and his father formed Devon Energy in 1971 to tap into the expanding need for new oil and energy sources. Through a series of acquisitions and investments, the business grew to be the fourth largest pure oil and gas producer in... View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
Robert O. Anderson
Anderson parlayed a small oil business in New Mexico into one of the largest and most successful oil businesses in the United States. From 1966 to 1982, through acquisitions and strategic diversification, Anderson grew revenues 20-fold... View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
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Results. LSEG Workspace: Click on the Search Tools tab and select M&A. In the Quick Filters section, type Acquisition Techniques into the Add Filters text box, and select Bankruptcy Acquisition from the... View Details
Edward J. Bednarz
Bednarz secured Pinkerton’s position as the market leader in the office security business. Between 1968 and 1976, Pinkerton’s financial performance was among the top 50 companies in the United States in terms of both return on assets and market value. As Chairman,... View Details
Keywords: Services
- July 2002
- Article
How Serial Acquirers Turn No-Growth Into Growth
By: David F. Hawkins
Hawkins, David F. "How Serial Acquirers Turn No-Growth Into Growth." Accounting Bulletin, no. 108 (July 2002).
Horace C. Wright
acquisitions including the Oster Manufacturing Company. While he served as CEO, Sunbeam introduced many of its well-known products including electric shavers, blenders, knife sharpeners, and electric heaters. View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
Charles M. Pigott
Pigott was instrumental in leading the growth of his family’s business, Pacific Car & Foundry. Sales of heavy trucks under the Peterbilt and Kenworth names increased from $320 million to $4.3 billion. Part of that growth was generated through a series of View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
Rudina Seseri
Previously, Rudina was a Senior Manager in the Corporate Development Group at Microsoft Corporation. In this role, she led a number of successful acquisitions including iView Multimedia, Massive Interactive, Bungie Studios restructuring... View Details
Keywords: Software/App;#75;#Venture Capital
Francisco A. Lorenzo
Lorenzo took over the fledgling Texas International Airways in 1972 and through major acquisitions including Continental Airlines, he built it into one of the country’s largest airline carriers. Lorenzo was skillful at managing government... View Details
Keywords: Transportation
Jack M. Eckerd
acquisitions and by riding on the coattails of the supermarket expansion in the South, Eckerd doubled the size of his business every two years between 1959 and 1975. View Details
Keywords: Retail
- September 1981 (Revised November 1983)
- Case
El Paso - PNW Merger (A)
Vietor, Richard H.K. "El Paso - PNW Merger (A)." Harvard Business School Case 382-040, September 1981. (Revised November 1983.)
- March 1988
- Case
Richardson-Vicks--1985 (B)
Considers takeover defenses erected by Richardson-Vicks. The objective is to determine whether these defenses can by breached by a determined suitor, like Unilever. View Details
Rock, Kevin F. "Richardson-Vicks--1985 (B)." Harvard Business School Case 288-049, March 1988.
Bruce E. Karatz
Karatz has led KB Home during a period of immense growth. When he took over the CEO position, the company was selling and delivering 4,000 prefabricated homes a year. By 2003, the company was producing and selling over 27,000 homes. Karatz grew the business through... View Details
Keywords: Construction & Real Estate
- 1979
- Book
Diversification through Acquisition: Strategies for Creating Economic Value
By: Malcolm S. Salter and Wolf A. Weinhold
Salter, Malcolm S., and Wolf A. Weinhold. Diversification through Acquisition: Strategies for Creating Economic Value . Free Press, 1979.
- December 1999 (Revised April 2000)
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Franco Bernabe: Reflections on Telecom Italia (A)
By: Linda A. Hill and Kristin Doughty
In November 1998, Franco Bernabe left ENI to become CEO of Telecom Italia, Italy's primary telecommunications provider. Three months later, Roberto Colaninno, CEO of Olivetti SpA, an Italian computer and telecom company one fifth the size of Telecom Italia, launched a... View Details
Hill, Linda A., and Kristin Doughty. "Franco Bernabe: Reflections on Telecom Italia (A)." Harvard Business School Case 400-060, December 1999. (Revised April 2000.)