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Financial Management of Smaller Firms - Course Catalog
tracks their search process and highlights the challenges encountered when acquiring a small business. We then learn about different ways to fund a search through five other acquisitions by HBS graduates. We then focus on the market for...
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Herbert J. Siegel
Siegel built the once, small boat maker into one of the largest and most powerful media holding companies. Acquiring two independent television stations with the Chris-Craft acquisition in 1968, Siegel sold the boat business in 1980 and...
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Entertainment & Broadcast Media
Charles R. Shoemate
any U.S.-based operation. Shoemate presided over the successful spin-off of BestFoods and orchestrated its eventual, highly profitable acquisition by Unilever.
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Food & Tobacco
Walter A. Munns
Munns presided over the continued growth and diversification of Smith Kline. He orchestrated strategic acquisitions in the consumer and medical business arenas, introduced “Contac” and other Smith Kline medicines to the international...
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Healthcare
Donald C. McGraw
McGraw initiated a period of diversification and expansion for McGraw-Hill, moving beyond book and magazine publishing. He orchestrated the successful acquisition of three industry reference sources: Standard & Poor’s Corporation, F....
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Publishing & Print Media
Charles W. Moritz
Moritz took the helm of D&B just after it had acquired the major market research firm, A. C. Nielsen. Moritz led the successful integration of D&B’s largest acquisition and established a pattern of smooth and profitable mergers....
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Services
Scott D. Cook
century. The success of Quicken was just the beginning. Cook and Intuit went on to launch a full suite of financial applications from on-line bill payment for individuals to inventory and account receivables management for small businesses. Through his View Details
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Computers & Electronics
- 03 Oct 2017
- News
Can Bezos’s Ties to Boston—and HBS—Seal the Deal?
electronics devices to Amazon’s online storefront. HBS would continue to play a role in Amazon’s development, with the article noting that two of Amazon’s earliest acquisitions included local companies founded by Warren Adams (MBA 1998)...
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Retail Trade
- 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 household bleach. “We did not want...
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- November 1988
- Case
Martin Marietta: The Bendix Takeover
By: Jay W. Lorsch
Keywords:
Acquisition
Lorsch, Jay W. "Martin Marietta: The Bendix Takeover." Harvard Business School Case 489-085, November 1988.
Thomas S. Murphy
houses) including the 1986 pivotal acquisition of American Broadcasting Company, Murphy built a communications giant known for tight financial control and strong, lean management.
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Entertainment & Broadcast Media
Edward G. Jefferson
requirements. Though deemed expensive at the time ($7.3 billion), the Conoco acquisition was instrumental in securing duPont’s growth and positioning the company for the future.
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Chemicals & Industrial
- April 2010
- Case
Talent Agencies
By: Thomas R. Eisenmann, Toby E. Stuart and Lauren Barley
The case overviews the talent agency industry in Hollywood in 2009. Focuses on the role of the talent agent, the dynamics of professional service firms, the challenges facing agencies in light of major changes in the entertainment industries, and a possible merger...
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- March 1985 (Revised June 1985)
- Teaching Note
Conglomerates and the Merger Movement of the 1960s, Teaching Note
- November 2010 (Revised July 2011)
- Case
Merck/Schering-Plough Merger (A)
By: David F. Hawkins
Students have to identify the acquirer in a business combination structured as a reverse merger.
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Hawkins, David F. "Merck/Schering-Plough Merger (A)." Harvard Business School Case 111-017, November 2010. (Revised July 2011.)
- February 2017 (Revised February 2018)
- Case
Frank Baker: Siris Capital Group and Titan Systems
By: Steven Rogers and Derrick Collins
Private equity firm, Siris Capital Group, must decide if they should raise their offer to take Titan Telecom private by acquiring its publicly traded stock. Siris’ decision to pay a premium for Titan must be made in the context of their unique (and somewhat complex)...
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Keywords:
Acquisition;
Leveraged Buyouts;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Private Equity;
Mobile Technology;
Financial Services Industry;
Communications Industry;
Telecommunications Industry;
United States
Rogers, Steven, and Derrick Collins. "Frank Baker: Siris Capital Group and Titan Systems." Harvard Business School Case 317-036, February 2017. (Revised February 2018.)
- March 1978 (Revised June 1983)
- Case
Kennecott Copper Corp.
Involves a $550 million cash tender offer by Kennecott Copper Corp. for all of the outstanding common shares of the Carborundum Corp.
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Fruhan, William E., Jr. "Kennecott Copper Corp." Harvard Business School Case 278-143, March 1978. (Revised June 1983.)
- November 2010
- Teaching Note
The Walt Disney Company and Pixar Inc.: To Acquire or Not to Acquire? TN
By: Juan Alcacer and David J. Collis
Teaching Note for 709462 and 709489.
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- 01 Jan 2009
- News
Robert F. Greenhill, MBA 1962
and acquisitions department in 1972, the first of its kind on Wall Street. He then headed the investment banking division and eventually served as president before accepting the top spot at Smith Barney in 1993. In 1996, Greenhill set out...
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- November 2010 (Revised July 2011)
- Supplement
Merck/Schering-Plough Merger (B)
By: David F. Hawkins
Worksheet exercise to illustrate the accounting for the Merck/Schering-Plough reverse merger.
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Hawkins, David F. "Merck/Schering-Plough Merger (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 111-018, November 2010. (Revised July 2011.)