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  • April 2014
  • Case

Ford Motor Company: Blueprint for Mobility

By: Karim R. Lakhani, Marco Iansiti and Noah Fisher
Mark Fields, Ford Motor Company's COO, had to ensure the company's current business model of building cars and trucks remained strong, while concurrently navigating the company into the rapidly expanding industry of personal mobility. Personal mobility required new... View Details
Keywords: Automobiles; Automobile Manufacturing; Ford Motor Company; Mark Fields; Blueprint For Mobility; Dearborn; Michigan; Car Sharing; Parking; On-demand Ride Sharing; Strategy; Business Model; Auto Industry; Michigan; United States
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  • August 1998
  • Case

HIMSCORP, Inc.

By: William A. Sahlman, Michael J. Roberts and Laurence E. Katz
Himscorp is an industry consolidation of records storage companies providing management and retrieval services of active medical records to healthcare institutions. Kent Dauten, a former general partner at Madison Dearborn Partners with 15 years of venture capital and... View Details
Keywords: Value Creation; Initial Public Offering; Business Exit or Shutdown; Business Growth and Maturation; Decision Choices and Conditions; Consolidation; Information Industry
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  • August 1998
  • Case

Record Masters

By: William A. Sahlman, Michael J. Roberts and Laurence E. Katz
Kent Dauten, a former general partner at the Chicago private equity firm of Madison Dearborn Partners, has engaged in a search to personally sponsor a buyout in which he can play an active management role. He has received a selling memorandum for Record Masters, a... View Details
Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Leveraged Buyouts; Valuation; Negotiation Deal; Investment
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Hiring Organizations

Partners Madison Dearborn Partners, LLC Madrona Venture Labs Magnolia Bakery Main Street Health Major League Baseball Major League Soccer Management One Mar Vista Investment Partners Marriott International Mars & Co. Marshall Wace... View Details
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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

to 1994, Mr. Dauten worked at First Chicago Venture Capital/Madison Dearborn Partners, Inc., serving as Senior Vice President of First Chicago Venture Capital and Co-Founder of Madison Dearborn Partners,... View Details
  • 06 Sep 2022
  • Blog Post

Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business & Environment

Associate at Madison Dearborn Partners. Maude Hoffmann (MBA 2023, Section H), Summer Internship: Summer Associate, Investment Team at The Engine The Engine is a Boston-based early-stage venture capital firm that invests in companies with... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2010
  • News

Finnegan Heads HBS Fund

a longtime volunteer. As cofounder and co-CEO of Madison Dearborn Partners, a Chicago-based investment firm, Finnegan attributes much of his success to HBS. “It would have been impossible for me to get a position in private equity without... View Details
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Henry Ford presents new V-8 - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

picture was taken at Dearborn during the newspapermen’s preview of the new car, which excited unusual interest because of its completely new appearance and the advent of the 60 horsepower V-8 engine, giving a choice of engine sizes.... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2012
  • News

New Post for Finnegan

HBS Fund Chair Paul Finnegan (MBA 1982) has been elected to the Harvard Corporation, the University’s principal fiduciary governing board. A past president of the Harvard Alumni Association and a current member of the University’s Board of Overseers, Finnegan is the... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 01 Apr 2001
  • News

University Elections

standing committees of the Board of Directors, with each director serving on at least one committee. This year’s candidates are: Paul J. Finnegan, AB ’75, MBA ’82. Managing Director, Madison Dearborn Partners, Inc. Chicago, IL. Lisa M.... View Details
  • 06 Jun 2012
  • News

Fellowship Funder

communicate complex and at times dry subject matter clearly, simply, and with homespun charm,” recalls Mencoff, who went on to become a founding partner and co-CEO of Madison Dearborn Partners, a Chicago-based private equity firm with... View Details
Keywords: Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance
  • 01 Mar 2019
  • News

The One That Got Away

Madison Dearborn sold Fieldglass to SAP for four times what they had paid us—$1 billion. What a miss! In retrospect, the company had just begun its growth trajectory and market dominance. Moral of the story: If you have the opportunity to... View Details