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- 27 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on 2010’s Biggest Business Developments
were paralyzed by fear of a Chinese takeover of the world. Google didn't exactly leave China or prevail in the face-off over government-banned content. The BP oil spill debacle in the U.S. Gulf region didn't destroy the company, didn't...
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by Staff
- 25 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017
profitability, 4) relocation process, and 5) takeover by new management. At each stage, students must confront tensions in balancing profit, growth, and control. Difficulties encountered in the business are due to management's attempts to...
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Carmen Nobel
- 08 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 8
management friendly provisions, we identify the economic determinants of the resulting trade-offs for shareholder value. Consistent with the theory, our empirical analysis shows that provisions that allow managers to delay takeovers have...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: January 5
that is publicly traded in Spain and controlled by the Entrecanales family. In 2006, the company joined the highly politicized cross-border takeover battle for Spain's largest electric utility, Endesa, by acquiring a 10% stake that it...
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?
American business ought to be run, including changes to fiduciary duties, legal liability, takeover rules, and business education, among many other areas." Lorsch and Khurana will air their views in more detail to an academic...
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by Roger Thompson
- 04 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 4, 2007
accretion or dilution to expect based on the terms of a deal. Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208059 Evaluating M&A Deals—How Poison Pills Work Harvard Business School Note 208-061 The poison pill defense against...
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Martha Lagace
- 09 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 9, 2016
challenges as it seeks to continue its growth. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/816013-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 316-010 The Allergan Board Under Fire (A) In 2014, the Allergan Inc. board of directors received a surprise View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
prominent feature of the corporate landscape, escaping some of their earlier approbation as corporate raiders or, even worse, "greenmailers." Activism covered a range of approaches—from proxy votes and demands for Board seats, to full blown View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
PeopleSoft: A Case Study Authors:D. Millstone and Guhan Subramanian Periodical:Harvard Negotiation Law Review (winter 2007) Abstract This case describes Oracle's hostile takeover bid to acquire PeopleSoft, which began with an unsolicited...
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Martha Lagace
- 09 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 9, 2010
Era for Raiders Author:Guhan Subramanian Publication:Harvard Business Review 88, no. 11 (November 2010) Abstract The article presents information on corporate methods of preventing hostile takeovers by corporate raiders, such as the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
portrayed by the takeover artists and shareholder activists of the 1970s and 1980s, as well as by business school professors influenced by the work of scholars such as Oliver Williamson and Michael Jensen, as incompetent at best, and...
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- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
Provident Association). Any profits are reinvested in the business. So, because there are no shareholders to protest, the deteriorating finances did not bring corresponding external pressures to improve results. There was no "burning platform" from the threat of View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 11 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11
enter the market for financial products using its exchange model. Purchase this case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/717517-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 717-518 Betfair (C) Prompted by a takeover bid from CVC, Betfair...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
the ultimate result being a $40 million deficit. The district had already been placed on financial watch, with the very real possibility of a state takeover looming. Cognetti had been reading about the school district’s woes in the local...
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- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
company, was the target of a takeover battle between a financial sponsor and a strategic buyer. Thoma Bravo, the U.S.-based private equity firm, had to decide on its acquisition strategy in the face of competition from Schneider Electric,...
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Martha Lagace
- 23 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2008
culminates in a violent takeover of the mine in May 2005, whereupon BHP Billiton staff are forced to shut down operations, abandon the mine site, and devise a new strategy for winning back local support. Purchase this case:...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
our friends in Columbus Hot Chicken Takeover and start extending that logic. One other thing I’m very encouraged by: real discussion now about what’s generally described as a second chance initiative, where we are looking at people with...
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- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
property and casualty reinsurance company, announced it had agreed to sell itself to Alleghany Corporation, ending "the most frenzied takeover battle" of 2011, which involved competitors, Warren Buffett's National Indemnity, and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 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 rights or takeover disputes,...
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- 13 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 13, 2010
valuation, corporate governance, shareholder activism, takeover deal tactics, and the Japanese market for corporate control. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/209065-PDF-ENG Purchase this...
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Sean Silverthorne