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- August 1991 (Revised December 1994)
- Supplement
Marks and Spencer Ltd. (C)
Describes post-acquisition activity in Brooks Brothers and Kings Supermarkets from 1988 to 1991.
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Montgomery, Cynthia A. "Marks and Spencer Ltd. (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 792-007, August 1991. (Revised December 1994.)
- June 1984
- Background Note
Techniques of Purchasing a Company
Keywords:
Mergers and Acquisitions
Stevenson, Howard H. "Techniques of Purchasing a Company." Harvard Business School Background Note 384-189, June 1984.
Henry E. Singleton
allowing Teledyne to have sales of $10.5 million in 1962, just two years after the firm’s creation. Singleton’s penchant for acquisitions led Teledyne to become a $3 billion conglomerate in 1981, with major interests in almost every field...
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Fabricated Goods
- 25 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
New Learning at American Home Products
products division for $260 million to reinforce its earlier acquisition of Sherwood. In 1987 came the company's purchase of Bristol-Myers's animal healthcare division for $62 million and the acquisition of...
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Ralph E. Ward
Ward was instrumental in transforming Chesebrough-Pond’s from a small cosmetics company into a major consumer products conglomerate. A formidable risk-taker, Ward was a master of acquiring mature, stagnant companies and putting them on an accelerated growth path. His...
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Personal Care & Home Products
Laurence F. Probst, III
production of videogames and has also branched into educational software through the acquisition of Broderbund. Probst also managed the international expansion of EA.
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Computers & Electronics
H. Wayne Huizenga
marketing and acquisition efforts enabled the business to become one of the fastest growing enterprises in the United States. In 1994, Huizenga arranged the sale of the company to Viacom, creating a natural distribution network for its...
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Retail
- June 2016
- Case
Suominen Wipes the Slate Clean
By: Boris Groysberg, Kalle Heikkinen and Michael Norris
In 2016, after successfully turning around Finnish nonwovens manufacturer Suominen, CEO Nina Kopola faces a decision on the company’s strategy moving forward.
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Nonwovens;
Female Protagonist;
Turnaround;
Strategy;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Pulp and Paper Industry;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
Manufacturing Industry;
Industrial Products Industry;
Consumer Products Industry;
Europe;
United States;
Finland
Groysberg, Boris, Kalle Heikkinen, and Michael Norris. "Suominen Wipes the Slate Clean." Harvard Business School Case 416-047, June 2016.
- November 2000
- Article
A Buy-Side Model of M&A Lockups: Theory and Evidence
By: Guhan Subramanian and John C. Coates
Subramanian, Guhan, and John C. Coates. "A Buy-Side Model of M&A Lockups: Theory and Evidence." Stanford Law Review 53, no. 2 (November 2000): 307–396. (Selected by academics as one of the 'top ten' articles in corporate/securities law for 2001, out of 300 articles published in that year.)
- 22 Jul 2005
- Keynote Speech
Mergers and Acquisitions: Constructive or Destructive Force of Change?
By: W. Carl Kester
- September 2000
- Case
MCI-WorldCom Combination, The (B)
By: Paul M. Healy and Jacob Cohen
Supplements the (A) case.
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Healy, Paul M., and Jacob Cohen. "MCI-WorldCom Combination, The (B)." Harvard Business School Case 101-028, September 2000.
- 13 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 13, 2007
MaterialsFurman Selz LLC (A): A Tale of Two Acquisitions Harvard Business School Case 905-066 Profiles a firm that was reacquired by two companies with different degrees of success. Highlights integration challenges present in View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 1994
- Chapter
Takeovers: Their Causes and Consequences
By: Michael C. Jensen
Keywords:
Acquisition
Jensen, Michael C. "Takeovers: Their Causes and Consequences." In Readings in Mergers and Acquisitions, edited by P. A. Gaughan. Cambridge, MA: Basil Blackwell, 1994. (Also published in Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 2, No. 1 (winter 1988); an abridged version forthcoming in Management Revolution: The Legacy of the Market for Corporate Control, (Harvard University Press))
- 1988
- Comment
Characteristics of Hostile and Friendly Takeover Targets
By: Michael Jensen
Keywords:
Acquisition
- August 1978 (Revised July 1979)
- Exercise
Buying a Firm
By: Howard Raiffa
Keywords:
Acquisition
Raiffa, Howard. "Buying a Firm." Harvard Business School Exercise 179-023, August 1978. (Revised July 1979.)
Sanford I. Weill
At Travelers, Weill focused on growing the company’s assets with a particular emphasis on global expansion, a mission that led to the creation of Citigroup Inc., following the acquisition of Salomon Brothers in 1997 and the famous...
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Finance
Robert D. Stuart, Jr.
that this and other acquisitions cost Quaker Oats a good deal of cash, the company benefited greatly from the expansion with sales growing from $500 million in 1968 to $2 billion in 1979.
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Food & Tobacco
Helen K. Copley
Copley pursued a series of strategic acquisitions to expand the scope of the organization. In addition to its flagship paper, The San Diego Union Tribune, Copley Press owned 11 other dailies and 32 weeklies by the late nineties.
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Publishing & Print Media
Juan T. Trippe
supporting the Allied Forces in the Pacific during World War II. Such dealings, in conjunction with Trippe’s acquisition of landing rights all over the world, helped PanAm become an industry leader in international air travel.
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Transportation
Nathan Cummings
By 1966, Cummings had grown Consolidated Foods into the nation’s fastest growing food processor, with sales of $830 million. Cummings’ most significant acquisition was Sara Lee, which he purchased in 1956 and grew into the nation’s...
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Food & Tobacco