Publications

July 2015
Exercise

An Activist Approach: Confidential Role Assignment for Fultons Department Stores

By: Guhan Subramanian and Kait Szydlowski

A three party, multiple-issue negotiation exercise dealing with a potential merger between two leading department stores, called for by an activist investor hedge fund in a letter to both companies. Company management will now attempt to navigate next moves, which are... View Details

Keywords: Negotiation; Activist Investors; Takeover Defense; Negotiation Types; Mergers and Acquisitions; Corporate Governance; Investment Activism; Retail Industry

July 2015
Exercise

An Activist Approach: Castle Rock-Fultons-Remingtons

By: Guhan Subramanian and Kait Szydlowski

A three party, multiple-issue negotiation exercise dealing with a potential merger between two leading department stores, called for by an activist investor hedge fund in a letter to both companies. Company management will now attempt to navigate next moves, which are... View Details

Keywords: Negotiation; Activist Investors; Takeover Defense; Negotiation Types; Mergers and Acquisitions; Corporate Governance; Investment Activism; Retail Industry

October 2011 (Revised July 2012)
Case

ATR KimEng Financial Corporation

By: Li Jin, Michael Shih-ta Chen and Dawn Lau

ATR KimEng is a Philippino asset management business. It is making an important decision on its own strategy going forward: should it stay independent, or be taken over by a large bank in the region. Through this case, we discuss the financial service industry in South... View Details

Keywords: Asset Management; Mergers and Acquisitions; Capital Markets; Investment; Financial Services Industry; Philippines

Educators

July 2008 (Revised September 2008)
Case

Recent Developments in the Ranbaxy Case

By: Robert C. Pozen

This brief case describes settlements Indian drug maker Ranbaxy has made with Pfizer and AstraZeneca, as well as Daiichi Kangyo's purchase of a majority shareholding in Ranbaxy in 2008. View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Patents; Lawsuits and Litigation; Ownership Stake; Pharmaceutical Industry; India

March 2003 (Revised November 2009)
Case

Hudson Manufacturing Company

By: Paul A. Gompers and Vanessa del Valle Broussard

Concerns the decision by Brett Keith and Owen Colligan to purchase Hudson Manufacturing, a maker of heaters and air filtration units for the military. Keith and Colligan have organized a search fund and identified Hudson as a potential buyout. The decline in the... View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Decision Choices and Conditions; Investment; Pollutants; Industrial Products Industry; Manufacturing Industry

Educators

September 2007
Article

Do Vertical Mergers Facilitate Upstream Collusion?

By: Volker Nocke and Lucy White

We investigate the impact of vertical mergers on upstream firms' ability to collude when selling to downstream firms in a repeated game. We show that vertical mergers give rise to an outlets effect: the deviation profits of cheating unintegrated firms are reduced as... View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Profit; Game Theory; Sales; Vertical Integration

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23 Apr 2014
News

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

Frederic N. Schwartz

Schwartz orchestrated Bristol-Myers' growth as a multinational health and beauty care provider ushering in ten consecutive years of market value appreciation. He oversaw the successful acquisition of Clairol and repaid the debt in less... View Details

Keywords: Healthcare

Joseph P. Spang, Jr.

Spang is credited with rejuvenating Gillette after the depression. He was a pioneer in sports marketing and endorsements and was instrumental in leading Gillette into diversified product lines, most notably with the acquisition of the... View Details

Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products

John Pitcairn

Pitcairn shepherded his small plate glass company into an industry leader with a capitalization of $25 million in 1916. Pitcairn accomplished such expansion through plant acquisition and sales growth, as well as through investment in... View Details

Keywords: Fabricated Goods

William W. George

George is credited with Medtronic’s phenomenal growth from a small producer of pacemakers to an international manufacturer of a broad line of medical devices. Through strategic acquisitions and organic growth, George catapulted revenues... View Details

Keywords: Healthcare

12 Feb 2020
News

Culture Shift at Big Blue

unassailable, Jono Bacon writes in Forbes. The company’s revenues grew consistently throughout his tenure, up to and beyond Red Hat’s acquisition by IBM in 2018. “What is really interesting though is Whitehurst’s secret sauce: his deft... View Details

Keywords: Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

John T. Chambers

Chambers grew Cisco from a company with $1.2 billion in sales to $10 billion in sales by 1998. Chambers has grown Cisco through both acquisitions and internal development. He capitalized on the data-intensive internet revolution and... View Details

Keywords: Computers & Electronics

November 2010 (Revised July 2011)
Supplement

Merck/Schering-Plough Merger (B)

By: David F. Hawkins

Worksheet exercise to illustrate the accounting for the Merck/Schering-Plough reverse merger. View Details

Keywords: Accounting; Mergers and Acquisitions; Pharmaceutical Industry

November 2010
Article

A New Era for Raiders

By: Guhan Subramanian

The article presents information on corporate methods of preventing hostile takeovers by corporate raiders, such as the poison pill strategy. It is noted that some of these techniques have become less popular and effective. An argument is presented that Section 203 of... View Details

Keywords: Strategy; Mergers and Acquisitions; United States

2004
Article

Mergers and Acquisitions: An Experimental Analysis of Synergies, Externalities and Dynamics

By: R. Croson, A. Gomes, K. L. McGinn and M. Nöth

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Theory