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- 20 Aug 2001
- Research & Ideas
Making an Ally of Uncle Sam
antitrust, intellectual property, product approval processes, and technical standards. When governments review applications for mergers and acquisitions or hear legal cases concerning intellectual-property...
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- 08 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 8
is more than the sum of its parts. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-097.pdf Financial vs. Strategic Buyers Authors:Marc Martos-Vila, Matthew Rhodes-Kropf, and Jarrad Harford Abstract Within the great oscillations of overall View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
someone has brought a cake. Kim shows up with two huge salads, winning cheers from the vegetarians in the group. Dan Brillon, GoLite’s COO, wears shorts and a T-shirt. Previously, he was the director of mergers and View Details
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
conditions over the past few years, but not nearly to the extent that other financing vehicles such as venture capital or other financial transactions such as mergers and acquisitions have been affected....
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- August 2023 (Revised March 2024)
- Case
Arla Foods: Data-Driven Decarbonization (A)
By: Michael Parzen, Michael W. Toffel, Susan Pinckney and Amram Migdal
The case describes Arla’s history, in particular its climate change mitigation efforts, and how it implemented a price incentive system to motivate individual farms to implement scope 1 greenhouse gas emissions mitigation measures and receive a higher milk price. The...
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Dairy Industry;
Business Earnings;
Agribusiness;
Animal-Based Agribusiness;
Acquisition;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Decision Making;
Decisions;
Voting;
Environmental Management;
Climate Change;
Environmental Regulation;
Environmental Sustainability;
Green Technology;
Pollution;
Moral Sensibility;
Values and Beliefs;
Financial Strategy;
Price;
Profit;
Revenue;
Food;
Geopolitical Units;
Global Strategy;
Ownership Type;
Cooperative Ownership;
Performance Efficiency;
Performance Evaluation;
Problems and Challenges;
Natural Environment;
Science-Based Business;
Business Strategy;
Commercialization;
Cooperation;
Corporate Strategy;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
Europe;
United Kingdom;
European Union;
Germany;
Denmark;
Sweden;
Luxembourg;
Belgium
Parzen, Michael, Michael W. Toffel, Susan Pinckney, and Amram Migdal. "Arla Foods: Data-Driven Decarbonization (A)." Harvard Business School Case 624-003, August 2023. (Revised March 2024.)
- November 2008 (Revised January 2010)
- Case
Stone Finch, Inc.: Young Division, Old Division
By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Elizabeth Collins
CEO Jim Billings wants to attract energetic, entrepreneurial talent to Stone Finch, Inc., which comprises an older division that fabricates products like piping and tanks for water and wastewater processing plants, and a much newer division that develops biochemical...
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Organizational Behavior;
Human Resource Management;
Motivation;
Business Growth;
Motivation and Incentives;
Leadership;
Business Subsidiaries;
Innovation Strategy;
Resource Allocation;
Organizational Structure;
Organizational Culture;
Retention;
Operations;
Recruitment;
Integration;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Manufacturing Industry
Hamermesh, Richard G., and Elizabeth Collins. "Stone Finch, Inc.: Young Division, Old Division." Harvard Business School Brief Case 083-214, November 2008. (Revised January 2010.)
- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
integrated Chinese pharmaceutical conglomerate, was considering its strategic options in the context of a rapidly evolving industry, policy, and economic environment. The company-essentially a collection of subsidiaries operating under a unified management...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
Haber and Aldo Musacchio Abstract In 1997 Mexico allowed foreign banks unrestricted entry to the market. What impact did foreign mergers and acquisitions have on Mexico's banks? We find that all banks in...
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Martha Lagace
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
or is it still too early?" Dick Costolo wondered as he reflected on the latest acquisition offer. He had been building FeedBurner with his three co-founders for almost four years and was staring at the details of an View Details
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Martha Lagace
- November 2020 (Revised April 2021)
- Case
Roll-Ups and Surprise Billing: Collisions at the Intersection of Private Equity and Patient Care
By: Trevor Fetter and Kira Seiger
This case describes the increasing investment by private equity (PE) firms in patient care and other healthcare services. The case focuses on investments in physician staffing firms and roll-up strategy investments in physician practice management (PPM). Included in...
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Business Ventures;
Acquisition;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Business Model;
Change;
Disruption;
Fluctuation;
Trends;
Customers;
Customer Value and Value Chain;
Ethics;
Fairness;
Finance;
Equity;
Insurance;
Private Equity;
Geography;
Geographic Scope;
Health;
Health Care and Treatment;
Markets;
Demand and Consumers;
Supply and Industry;
Industry Structures;
Ownership;
Ownership Type;
Private Ownership;
Relationships;
Agency Theory;
Business and Community Relations;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Business and Stakeholder Relations;
Networks;
Strategy;
Competition;
Consolidation;
Expansion;
Integration;
Horizontal Integration;
Vertical Integration;
Value;
Value Creation;
Health Industry;
Insurance Industry;
United States
Fetter, Trevor, and Kira Seiger. "Roll-Ups and Surprise Billing: Collisions at the Intersection of Private Equity and Patient Care." Harvard Business School Case 321-049, November 2020. (Revised April 2021.)
- 15 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017
https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53092 April 2017 Stanford Law Review The New Look of Deal Protection By: Subramanian, Guhan, and Fernan Restrepo Abstract—Deal protection in mergers and View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
VP for North Asia, had been negotiating a possible acquisition with Jackie Jin, the chairman of a leading Chinese appliance manufacturer named Hefei Rongshida Sanyo Electric Company (Hefei Sanyo), for almost six months when suddenly Hefei...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Global Activities 2020-2021 - Global Activities 2021
and three previous recipients had their funding extended. Moni Alli (MBA 2021), founder of Front Edge, a lending platform in Lagos, Nigeria, that provides access to affordable working capital solutions. Nelly-Ange Kontchou (MD/MBA 2018), business development and View Details
- 10 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 10
Decker, Inc. William E. FruhanHarvard Business School Case 211-067 This case allows instructors to explore shareholder value creation and transfer opportunities in merger and acquisition transactions. It...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 2, 2007
successful NPD process. Each chapter outlines open questions and highlights needs for future research. Governance and Merger Accounting: Evidence from Stock Price Reactions to Purchase Versus Pooling Authors:Francisco de Asís...
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Martha Lagace
- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
egalitarianism to be based on exogenous factors including social fractionalization, religion, and war experience. Controlling for a large set of competing explanations, we find a robust influence of egalitarianism distance on cross-border investment flows of equity,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
misvaluation on merger and acquisition activity. Debt misvaluation helps explain the shifting dominance of financial acquirers (private equity firms) relative to strategic acquirers (operating companies)....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Getting Down to the Business of Creativity
success of this particular business is still untested, it's clear that company management is on a transformative course that does not center entirely on the imaging business. To implement Komori's strategy, Fuji established a centralized R&D lab, increased its...
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- 06 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success
the computer industry. Throughout the 1970s, Xerox completed several acquisitions in order to further its project for an "architecture of information." Unfortunately, in assembling these noncopier companies and opening PARC,...
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by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 04 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 4
The role of private equity in Japan is also explored and allows students to compare the Japanese merger and acquisition market to that of the U.S. and Europe. Purchase this case:...
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Sean Silverthorne