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- January 2004
- Case
Bob Holgrom and the Buyout of the Carlson Division
By: Thomas R. Piper
The head of the Carlson Division stands to benefit substantially in financial terms if a private equity firm wins the bid for the division. The division is in the early stages of a performance turnaround, with only three quarters of profit improvement and no audited...
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Private Equity;
Leveraged Buyouts;
Corporate Disclosure;
Ethics;
Financial Reporting;
Laws and Statutes;
Performance Improvement
Piper, Thomas R. "Bob Holgrom and the Buyout of the Carlson Division." Harvard Business School Case 304-083, January 2004.
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Philip L. Yeo: The Next Big Thing
To understand the remarkable success of the tiny island city-state of Singapore (250 square miles, 4.1 million people, annual per capita income $24,150), one really need look no farther than Philip Yeo, one of the republic's true pioneers. Literally reshaping his...
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Government
- 04 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
Jumpstarting Innovation: Using Disruption to Your Advantage
also teaches courses on innovation and building new ventures to seasoned executives in the School's Executive Education Program. This excerpt from a recent presentation encourages executives to leverage disruptive change as a platform for...
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by Lynda M. Applegate
J. Bruce Llewellyn
Llewellyn was involved in a wide variety of business ventures, almost all of which were extremely profitable. He excelled at leveraged buy-outs, and two years after accomplishing a buy-out of the Philadelphia Coca-Cola Bottling Company,...
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Food & Tobacco
- 18 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 18, 2006
acquisition and the management team running the acquired firm for the private equity sponsor share the shareholder value creation in a successful leveraged buyout. Purchase this note:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Finding sustainable solutions for humanitarian crises
over $460,000 for Haitian communities. He also encouraged companies to invest, and Marriott will open up its first Port-au-Prince hotel in 2014. In parallel, Goodwin worked with the US Chamber of Commerce and major multinationals to create the Business Corps, View Details
- 08 Oct 2015
- Blog Post
Why We Recruit: DaVita Healthcare Partners, Inc.
Kelly Raulino, Manager, Redwoods Leadership Development, DaVita HealthCare Partners, Inc. Describe your organization in three to five sentences. DaVita HealthCare Partners, a Fortune 500® company, is one of the nation's largest and most innovative healthcare...
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Health Care
- September 2008
- Class Lecture
Leading Change and Organizational Renewal
By: Michael L. Tushman and Charles O'Reilley
Executives who return from campus-based executive programs ready to make changes often find employees resistant to new ideas. The Leading Change and Organizational Renewal multimedia resource was created to ease transitions and empower the teacher as leader. This...
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- February 2000 (Revised April 2004)
- Case
Butler Capital Partners and Autodistribution: Putting Private Equity to Work in France
Describes a proposed buyout transaction of Autodistribution, an entrepreneurial firm that is the leading car-parts distributor in France. The deal became feasible because of a failed takeover battle for Autodistribution's parent company. Private equity investor Butler...
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Private Equity;
Leveraged Buyouts;
Valuation;
Executive Compensation;
Entrepreneurship;
Distribution Industry;
Auto Industry;
France
Kuemmerle, Walter, and William J. Coughlin Jr. "Butler Capital Partners and Autodistribution: Putting Private Equity to Work in France." Harvard Business School Case 800-224, February 2000. (Revised April 2004.)
- 10 Apr 2019
- HBS Case
How Entrepreneurs Can Turn Lead Into Gold
the Academy of Management Annals. Their conclusion: Far too much focus is placed on raising money and signing formal contracts, but far too little attention on informal and non-financial resources that can make or break a new business. “Entrepreneurs are more...
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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
HBS Curricula Explore the Complexities of Innovation
and share value, as well as achieve growth. Driving Digital Strategy explores ways to leverage digital, social, and mobile marketing tools to drive innovation and spur growth. A related program is Marketing in the Digital Era—Virtual,...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 10 Apr 2019
- News
Rakuten’s Mikitani Bets $5.5 Billion To Shake Up Japan’s Telecom Industry
10 million customers in the next nine years. The plan, the article notes, relies on leveraging Rakuten’s 100 million existing e-commerce, banking, and credit card customers. “Using our ecosystem, we can acquire customers at a relatively...
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Vaughn L. Beals, Jr.
Beals and fellow AMF executives orchestrated a leveraged buyout of Harley-Davidson in 1981 when it was on the brink of collapse. Through the adoption of quality management approaches and prudent investments, Beals and his team are...
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Automotive & Aerospace
- 2009
- Article
Modeling Expert Opinions on Food Healthfulness: A Nutrition Metric
By: Jolie M. Martin, John Beshears, Katherine L. Milkman, Max H. Bazerman and Lisa Sutherland
Research over the last several decades indicates the failure of existing nutritional labels to substantially improve the healthiness of consumers' food and beverage choices. The difficulty for policy-makers is to encapsulate a wide body of scientific knowledge in a... View Details
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Judgments;
Food;
Nutrition;
Labels;
Knowledge Use and Leverage;
Demand and Consumers;
Measurement and Metrics;
Mathematical Methods
Martin, Jolie M., John Beshears, Katherine L. Milkman, Max H. Bazerman, and Lisa Sutherland. "Modeling Expert Opinions on Food Healthfulness: A Nutrition Metric." Journal of the American Dietetic Association 109, no. 6 (June 2009): 1088–1091.
- April 1991 (Revised July 1991)
- Supplement
RJR Nabisco Board: Guardians of the Gate? (B)
By: Jay W. Lorsch
The special committee of the RJR Nabisco board has extended the bidding deadline for the company by 10 days. The case explains the process by which Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and the management group bid against one another for ownership of RJR Nabisco. The board of...
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Leveraged Buyouts;
Situation or Environment;
Bids and Bidding;
Decision Making;
Managerial Roles;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Management Teams;
Consumer Products Industry;
Food and Beverage Industry
Lorsch, Jay W. "RJR Nabisco Board: Guardians of the Gate? (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 491-121, April 1991. (Revised July 1991.)
- September 2006
- Case
IR at BP: Investor Relations and Information Reconnaissance
By: Gregory S. Miller, Daniela Beyersdorfer and Anders Sjoman
BP's IR director has begun a program to use information regarding external views of BP and the industry as part of the firm's planning and operational activities. This information is generated as a portion of their award winning investor relations program, and had...
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Knowledge Use and Leverage;
Operations;
Information Management;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Planning
Miller, Gregory S., Daniela Beyersdorfer, and Anders Sjoman. "IR at BP: Investor Relations and Information Reconnaissance." Harvard Business School Case 107-026, September 2006.
- May 2008 (Revised June 2009)
- Case
Finansbank 2006
By: C. Fritz Foley and Linnea Meyer
How do financial policy requirements and benefits of ownership concentration affect the need for and process of corporate restructuring? This case provides students with an opportunity to analyze the restructuring of a Turkish multinational business group by way of a...
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Keywords:
Leveraged Buyouts;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Restructuring;
Capital Budgeting;
Agreements and Arrangements;
Valuation;
Turkey;
Greece
Foley, C. Fritz, and Linnea Meyer. "Finansbank 2006." Harvard Business School Case 208-108, May 2008. (Revised June 2009.)
- 03 Dec 2001
- What Do You Think?
What Happens When the Sumo Master Learns Judo?
examples of how, by practicing judo principles of movement (not inviting attack, defining the competitive space, and following through fast); balance (gripping your opponent, avoiding tit-for-tat, and pushing when pulled); and leverage...
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by James Heskett
- 21 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
Malcolm McClain (MBA/MPP 2023) Named First RISE Career Fellow
to become better employers. “Throughout my career, I have explored how private capital and public resources can be leveraged to ensure people living in historically marginalized communities have the opportunity for economic mobility,”...
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- Web
Faculty Focus Their Research on COVID-19 Issues - HBS Fund Investors Society 2020 Report
management and policy, leading through crisis, adapting your business, leveraging technology, and work life. Faculty members have shared their ideas and offered practical solutions through working papers, articles, op-eds, podcasts,...
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