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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Hope for Reform Dims
led to Merrill’s acquisition by Bank of America,” he recalled. Three weeks after the deal closed on January 1, 2009, Thain was forced to resign as controversy swirled around the generous terms of the $50 billion deal View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Long-Term Interest: Bill Crozier, a Banker Pegged to the Customer
serious player. The merger with Bank of Boston got us up to a required level of significance on the nationwide landscape." Now the rules of the game may have changed again. Commenting on the recent proposed megamerger between Citicorp... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Kenneth A. Goldman
Excite@Home's acquisitions and partnerings with the many cable, computer, and media companies necessary to create its new platinum-paved info highway, Goldman has been heading... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
The End of the Noncompete Clause
Dell EMC merger deal closed in September, the company’s president suggested that they would be more “thoughtful and careful” in their use of noncompetes. EARN’s efforts against Dell EMC are ongoing, View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Student Conferences, at a Glance
Cash, Jr. Professional Achievement Award: Raymond J. McGuire (MBA 1983/JD 1984), managing director, Mergers & Acquisitions Group, Morgan Stanley This year’s conference — named for one of the School’s first... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Making Finance Personal
organizing household finances, in 1983 Cook cofounded Intuit with the novel idea of producing—as it did with Quicken, its initial offering, and later with its acquisition of TurboTax—financial software as a... View Details
- 27 Jun 2016
- News
Ulf Mark Schneider Has Plans to Make Nestlé Healthy
the company since 1922. A piece in Fortune notes that the appointment “could trigger a series of acquisitions by the Swiss food giant to further its ambitions in nutrition and medical foods.” Schneider comes... View Details
- 21 Oct 2020
- News
Cold Calculations
where he makes his home and works as a partner at the mergers and acquisitions firm Architect Partners. A two-decade-long drought, a... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
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... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Insatiably Curious
experience was exactly what she needed. “I was drinking from the fire hose,” she says. “At MIT, I learned how to problem solve. At HBS, I got a framework that allowed me to see the bigger picture.” The School also facilitated her career transition—from technology to... View Details
- 10 Sep 2020
- News
The Business of Access
her business know-how—revenue generation and growth in the private sector—and apply it to nonprofits rooted in social services. She was brought aboard to assist San Mateo–based Shelter Network implement a View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Navigating rough waters
bank through the financial crisis of 2008, including its rescue of Bear Stearns and acquisition of Washington Mutual. "Our aim is to be the world's most trusted and respected... View Details
- 29 Mar 2017
- News
Randy Day Named Perdue Farms CEO
was seen by some in the agribusiness sector as a safe move for the innovative company, writes DelmarvaNow. But Day was quick to counter that perception, telling the news outlet that “he will be just as willing as Perdue has always been to bet on new technology,... View Details
- 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."... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
School Ties
When Jan Rivkin talks about what the US educational system must deliver, he lays out the challenge in stark terms. "For young Americans to succeed in today's workforce, they must out-innovate and out-produce the world's best," declares... View Details
- 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... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Two Kinds of Green
private equity firm AEA Investors, which expanded Burt’s into stores like CVS, Walgreens, and Target. Burt’s subsequent acquisition by Clorox raised eyebrows. After all, Clorox is best known for making... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Historic Gift from HBS to New Radcliffe Institute
Harvard Business School has contributed a six-figure gift to the new Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, which will be established as an integral part of Harvard University as a result of Radcliffe College's merger with the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
In Brief
Q&A with Steve Schwarzman. Private-equity firms have been on an acquisitions binge of late, and leading the pack is The Blackstone Group, headed by CEO Steve Schwarzman (MBA ’72). He talks about the buyout... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Remembering Dick Spangler
of North Carolina (now Bank of America), where he served as chair during the 1980s and played a key role in the firm’s merger with the North Carolina National Bank Corporation. With a lifelong passion for... View Details