Publications

16 Nov 2010
First Look

First Look: November 16, 2010

CEOs are retained in a sample of mergers in the 1990s, we find greater retention of better-performing and higher-paid CEOs—both measures of valuable human capital. We also show that the performance-retention link is stronger when the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

August 2023 (Revised January 2024)
Supplement

Arla Foods: Data-Driven Decarbonization (B)

By: Michael Parzen, Michael W. Toffel, Susan Pinckney and Amram Migdal

The case describes Arla’s history, in particular its climate change mitigation efforts, and how it implemented a price incentive system to motivate individual farms to implement scope 1 greenhouse gas emissions mitigation measures and receive a higher milk price. The... View Details

25 Sep 2007
First Look

First Look: September 25, 2007

Dollar General Corporation's acquisition by private equity sponsor KKR, which took the company private in 2007. Although the proposed merger generated a 30% premium over the stock price at the time, and the enterprise value to EBITDA... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

March 2024
Case

Funderbeam: Teaming Up or Going Alone?

By: Paul A. Gompers, Elena Corsi and Orna Dan

Funderbeam, a global platform founded in Estonia to enable start-ups to run private syndications and secondaries while offering liquidity for private equity investors, was at a crossroads. Over its ten-year run, the company had expanded its services and areas of... View Details

Keywords: Decision Making; Business Exit or Shutdown; Transition; Leading Change; Business or Company Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Law; Mergers and Acquisitions; Financing and Loans; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Ownership Stake; Expansion; Business Startups; Venture Capital; Financial Services Industry; Estonia; Republic of Ireland; United Kingdom; Singapore

20 Feb 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/917413-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 718-402 Upwork: Creating the Human Cloud Stephane Kasriel, the new CEO of Upwork, the leading platform for freelance labor, needs to decide on how to redesign its business model. While... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Jan 2008
First Look

First Look: January 15, 2008

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=207069 ThedaCare: System Strategy Harvard Business School Case 708-424 Over the 1980s and 1990s, America's changing health care payer environment resulted in mergers of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

29 Apr 2014
First Look

First Look: April 29

Harvard Business School Case 413-096 Novartis: Leading a Global Enterprise Novartis, the world's leading health care company, was formed in 1996 out of a merger of two very different, mid-tier Switzerland-based pharma companies. The case... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 May 2012
First Look

First Look: May 8

is more than the sum of its parts. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-097.pdf Financial vs. Strategic Buyers Authors:Marc Martos-Vila, Matthew Rhodes-Kropf, and Jarrad Harford Abstract Within the great oscillations of overall View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

27 Jan 2009
First Look

First Look: January 27, 2009

b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=509032 Offering the Right Service in the Right Place: Growing Orthopedics at the Brigham and Women's/Faulkner (BW/F) Hospitals Harvard Business School Case 108-016 After the merger of two local... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2007
News

Lighten Up

someone has brought a cake. Kim shows up with two huge salads, winning cheers from the vegetarians in the group. Dan Brillon, GoLite’s COO, wears shorts and a T-shirt. Previously, he was the director of mergers and acquisitions at... View Details

Keywords: Kathryn Jones; Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, and Book Stores; Retail Trade

January 2006 (Revised April 2007)
Case

General Electric Healthcare, 2006

By: Tarun Khanna and Elizabeth Raabe

In January 2006, Joe Hogan, head of General Electric (GE) Healthcare Technologies, prepared to step into William Castell's shoes as CEO of GE Healthcare, the world's leading manufacturer of diagnostic imaging equipment. In 2004, former CEO Jeff Immelt acquired Amersham... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship; Cost vs Benefits; Growth and Development Strategy; Mergers and Acquisitions; Machinery and Machining; Global Range; Multinational Firms and Management; Product Design; Technological Innovation; Expansion; Value Creation; Business Subsidiaries; Health Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry

18 Mar 2014
First Look

First Look: March 18

drawn from decided cases that explore the following: a classic test of loyalty when one partner elects to take advantage of an opportunity the partnership may also be able to pursue (Meinhard v. Salmon); the care and procedure directors should employ when approving a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Jun 2018
News

My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses

wonderful 25-year career. The firm had been founded by three HBS graduates. At the time it had fewer than 20 people. When I joined I was the 25th. And the long story short is, I worked there for 25 years. Today that core, through many, many, many View Details

August 2023 (Revised March 2024)
Case

Arla Foods: Data-Driven Decarbonization (A)

By: Michael Parzen, Michael W. Toffel, Susan Pinckney and Amram Migdal

The case describes Arla’s history, in particular its climate change mitigation efforts, and how it implemented a price incentive system to motivate individual farms to implement scope 1 greenhouse gas emissions mitigation measures and receive a higher milk price. The... View Details