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- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
HBS Center Focuses on Europe
here. In 2004, we also expect mergers and acquisitions activity to heat up as many industries are consolidating on a European or global basis. Industries that we are watching include airlines, pharma, and financial services. Q: What roles...
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by Cynthia Churchwell
- 22 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 22, 2006
manufacturing and the Toyota Production System. Asks students to consider whether New Balance should change aspects of its operations strategy in light of the consolidation among its competitors or whether the Adidas-Reebok transaction...
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Martha Lagace
- 18 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 18
case puts special emphasis on the strategic drivers for business consolidation and combination in an environment of increased competition, trends toward self-indexation, and growth of indexing at a global scale. Purchase this case:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
economies to land politics. Dalian, benefitting from early access to foreign capital, consolidated control over urban territory through the designation of a development zone, which realigned local economic interests and introduced dual...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 9, 2010
restructuring in pillar industries and its effect on industry structures. In the petrochemical industry, the shift toward greater horizontal consolidation and vertical integration reduces the collective action problems associated with...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
due to partial family ownership and a consolidating market for industrial gases. Aiming to make Messer Griesheim a more attractive potential acquisition, Messer Griesheim management had drawn up a restructuring plan as early as 2000. By...
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Martha Lagace
- 22 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms
including taking Fannie and Freddie out of the investment business, simplifying mortgage disclosure documents, consolidating the federal government's highly fractured financial services regulatory agencies, and requiring that financial...
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- 04 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 4, 2007
development and potential consolidation of the household electronic appliance retailing sector. Gome, Suning, and China Paradise, the three largest players in the market, all experienced phenomenal growth, but Gome is slowly losing steam...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Aug 2008
- Op-Ed
Google-Yahoo Ad Deal is Bad for Online Advertising
increases from the arrangement, but critics claim Google would be the ultimate winner by consolidating more power in the market. Edelman prepared the remarks for a June 27, 2008, hearing, which was later rescheduled. Here is the prepared...
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- 20 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
What’s Next for Japan
has to be done by the politicians. There are some very good, young, bright politicians in their 40s, but you can't expect them to take power and consolidate in a five-year period." Vogel placed the political goals of recovery in a...
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by Hilah Geer
- 22 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 22, 2007
chapter as one of the great marketing companies, in league with Kraft Food or Coca-Cola. The job of the next CEO would be to unlock the enterprise value of the company in the face of continuing customer consolidation and increasingly...
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017
industry observers believed the growth and consolidation would continue, providing many opportunities for investors. However, few health club chains were publicly listed, and the leading listed company, Bally Total Fitness, was under U.S....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
These structures determine a firm's motivation to seek protection, as well as its capacity to overcome collective action problems within its industry. In the petrochemical industry, the shift toward greater horizontal consolidation and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 31, 2006
customer service—to build his business. Covers the first 50 years of American Airlines' history, beginning with its role as an industry consolidator in the late 1920s. Smith's strategic and operational choices in building American...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
the end of another chapter in the history of the fast consolidating credit card market. For Providian CEO Joseph Saunders, it was vindication of four years' hard work in turning around a company that many thought was close to bankruptcy....
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Martha Lagace
- 16 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 16, 2010
to consolidate the company's Venezuelan subsidiary. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/111019-PDF-ENG Cosmeticos de Espana, S.A. (B) David F. HawkinsHarvard Business School Supplement 111-020 in the Cosmeticos de...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 1, 2008
for PR firms and their holding-company media conglomerate parents to do so. The public relations industry in the broadest sense has undergone a tremendous amount of consolidation through acquisitions over the past 20 years. It is also...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
business innovation and development vice-president, "All Natura product lines must have a cause and a story to tell, so as to strengthen and consolidate the identification of our colaboradoras with the company." In line with...
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- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
administrative aberration indicating weak state control, while others see it as a strategy for consolidating authority. This essay traces the historical development of iq ā and ijārah, two Perso-Arabic terms frequently translated from the...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
consolidated into a single constraint. This helps to avoid a distortionary situation where different constraints bind for different banks performing the same activity. Second, while a regulatory framework that relies primarily on minimum...
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Sean Silverthorne