Publications

May 2020 (Revised August 2021)
Case

Playing the Field: Competing Bids for Anadarko Petroleum Corp

By: E. Scott Mayfield, Daniel Green and Benjamin C. Esty

On April 8, 2019, Occidental’s CEO Vicki Hollub made a private offer to buy Anadarko Petroleum Corporation for $72 in cash and stock. Anadarko's CEO Al Walker said he would consider the offer, yet three days later, on April 11, he signed a merger agreement with Chevron... View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Bids and Bidding; Decision Making; Cost vs Benefits

March 1993
Case

Classic Greek Explosives Company: Task Force Study of Optimal Bid Pricing

By: Richard F. Meyer and Kirsten Syverson

Keywords: Bids and Bidding

September 2004
Supplement

Valuing a Cross-Border LBO: Bidding on the Yell Group (CW)

By: Mihir A. Desai

March 2004
Supplement

Dow Chemical's Bid for the Privatization of PBB in Argentina

By: Mihir A. Desai and Alexandra de Royere

March 2025
Case

Bidding for the Bunker: Crown Wine Cellars’ Complex Negotiations

By: Alex Chan and Rachel Lau

September 2017 (Revised December 2019)
Case

Miami Price: Bidding on an Iconic Transit-Oriented Development Site

By: Charles F. Wu, Aaron Stolear, Vitali Bourchtein and Sayiddah Fatima McCree

13th Floor-Adler, a partnership of 13th Floor Investments and Adler Group, was compiling a response to a Miami-Dade County Request for Proposal (RFP). The RFP's prize was the opportunity to develop a 7.5+/- acre parking lot, adjacent to a heavy-rail rapid transit... View Details

Keywords: Land Valuation; Real Estate Development; Real Estate; Land Markets; Land Investment; Property; Design; Valuation; Real Estate Industry; Miami

September 2003
Case

Valuing a Cross-Border LBO: Bidding on the Yell Group

By: Mihir A. Desai, Paolo Notarnicola and Mark Veblen

A team of private equity investors must value the leveraged buyout of a Yellow Pages business that operated in both the United States and the United Kingdom. In the process, they must wrestle with issues of how to conduct cross-border valuations and how to value a... View Details

Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Cash Flow; Private Equity; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Valuation

Article

Republic N.Y.'s Bid for Green Point Holds Lessons on S&L Conversions

By: B. C. Esty

Keywords: Learning; Bids and Bidding

30 Sep 2010
News

Democrats' failed bid to curb outsourcing had some crucial flaws

27 Jul 2021
News

Senate’s Semiconductor Aid May Be Opening Bid in Global Race

July 2015
Case

Private Equity Finance Vignettes: 2016

By: Paul A. Gompers and Victoria Ivashina

This case contains four vignettes that provide an introduction to the issues covered in the course, Private Equity Finance. View Details

Keywords: Deal Sourcing; Bidding; Private Equity; Bids and Bidding; North America

December 2005
Teaching Note

Dow Chemical's Bid for the Privatization of PBB in Argentina (TN)

By: Mihir A. Desai and Kathleen Luchs

Keywords: Chemical Industry; Argentina

January 2006 (Revised March 2007)
Supplement

Politics and Prudential Supervision: ABN Amro's Bid for Antonveneta (B)

By: Rawi E. Abdelal and Christopher Bruner

Keywords: Investment Funds; Banking Industry

26 Oct 2022
Podcast

Sprawling ambition: Jonathan Webb on AppHarvest’s bid to transform agriculture

The ag tech firm’s founder talks about large-scale indoor farming’s potential for food security, climate change adaptation, and economic renewal. View Details

March 10, 2015
Article

How Will a €1.1 Trillion Bid to Energize the Eurozone Economy Work?

By: Ashish Kumar Sen and Dante Roscini

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March 10, 2015
Blog Post

How Will a €1.1 Trillion Bid to Energize the Eurozone Economy Work?

By: Dante Roscini

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Article

Switching Costs and Bidding Parity in Government Procurement of Computer Systems

By: Luis Cabral and Shane Greenstein

May 2017 (Revised February 2024)
Case

Battle for the Soul of Capitalism: Unilever and the Kraft Heinz Takeover Bid (A)

By: William W. George and Amram Migdal

This case describes Kraft Heinz Company’s (KHC) February 2017 unsolicited $143 billion takeover offer to acquire Unilever. The offer was made to Unilever CEO Paul Polman by KHC chairman Alexandre Behring, who was also co-founder and CEO of Brazilian-based 3G Capital... View Details

Keywords: Acquisition; Value Creation; Decision Choices and Conditions