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Goodyear Tire & Rubber: M&A Synergies
Mark SimonsonCase IVEY-W32285-EAccounting and Control, FinanceIn late 2020, The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company (Goodyear)’s chief executive officer, Richard Kramer, told Cooper Tire & Rubber Company (Cooper)’s chief executive officer, Bradley Hughes, that Goodyear would submit an acquisition proposal by the end of the year. Goodyear had spent the last two years enduring global weakness in the automotive industry and the onset of the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, which contributed to Goodyear’s stock falling ...Starting at €8.20
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Banorte M vil: Data-Driven Mobile Growth
Israeli, Ayelet; Larangeira, Carla; Cal, MarianaCase HBS-520068-EMarketingIn mid-2019, Carlos Hank, was deliberating over the results for Banorte M vil - the mobile application for Banorte, Mexico's most profitable and second-largest financial institution. Hank, who had been appointed as Banorte s Chairman of the Board in January 2015, had overseen Banorte's transformation (and multi-million-dollar investment) from a product and client volume-focused bank into a customer-centric, technology and data-driven organizati...Starting at €8.20
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A&M/Octone Records: All Rights or Nothing
Elberse, Anita; Ofek, Elie; Kelleher, CarenCase HBS-511031-EMarketingIn April 2008, after successfully transitioning Octone Records to Universal Music Group and relaunching the label as A&M/Octone Records, president and chief executive officer James Diener is facing a new challenge. Diener and his executive team have trouble convincing a new, promising act, Paper Tongues, to join A&M/Octone on a so-called all-rights deal, which specified that the label would receive a percentage of all of the artist's revenue stre...Starting at €8.20
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How Emerging Giants Are Rewriting the Rules of M&A (Spanish version)
Kumar, NirmalyaArticle HBS-R0905KStrategyThis article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. While Western companies struggle with mergers and acquisitions, emerging giants like Indian aluminum producer Hindalco are using M&A as their main globalization strategy. That's partly because developing economies grew at near double-digit rates in the past 15 year...Starting at €8.20
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John M. Case Co. (Spanish version)
Hayes, Samuel L.Case HBS-206S05FinanceThe owner of a small, privately held company decides to sell out, and a group of the company's top managers structures a leveraged buyout. A rewritten version of an earlier case.Starting at €8.20
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CJ E&M: Creating a K-Culture in the U.S.
Ofek, Elie; Kim, Sang-Hoon; Norris, MichaelCase HBS-515015-EMarketingBuoyed by the success of K-pop music and K-drama television shows in Asian countries, Jay Lee, Chairman of the South Korean conglomerate CJ Group, believed that the time was ripe for taking Korean cultural content to the West. One initiative, carried out by the Group's Entertainment & Media (E&M) division, was a daylong fan convention, called 'KCON' , that was held in Irvine CA in October 2012 and which featured various Korean cultural elements, ...Starting at €8.20
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Unity Bank: Realizing Value From an M&A Integration
Nicole R.D. Haggerty; John FongCase IVEY-9B08E009-EInformation TechnologiesA member of the integration leadership team must help plan and execute the integration of Delta's information technology (IT) operations into those of Unity. He has been given a time limit of three years and has been charged with removing $60 million of expenses during the process. Half of the savings will come from reducing the number of staff whose roles have been duplicated as a result of the merger. The remaining savings will be achieved thro...Starting at €8.20
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AJE GROUP: en busca del crecimiento perdido
Nueno, José Luis; Bazán, MiguelCase M-1350Innovation and Change, Marketing, StrategyActualización del caso "Aje: vendiendo refrescos a la base de la pirámide" (M-1254), con los hechos de 2016. Durante el ejercicio 2015, convergieron una serie de tendencias macroeconómicas adversas (un entorno económico global incierto y la apreciación del dólar frente a las demás monedas) que, junto un incremento de la competencia y una caída de las ventas en sus mercados claves, provocó que la empresa tuviera que adoptar una serie de medidas ne...Starting at €8.20
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Edyficar and Mibanco: The Emergence of M&A in Microfinance
Chu, MichaelCase HBS-315030-EMibanco, a microfinance icon, is for sale and Edyficar, owned by BCP, Peru's largest bank, is evaluating its acquisition. Until recently, such a transaction would have been fanciful given Mibanco's pre-eminent role in Peruvian microfinance which has made it the country's fifth largest bank. The case examines why Mibanco is on the block, while also relating the evolution of Edyficar and its own acquisition by BCP (Banco del Credito) several years ...Starting at €8.20
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AJE GROUP: Porsuing Lost Growth
Nueno, José Luis; Bazán, MiguelCase M-1350-EInnovation and Change, Marketing, StrategyThis case is an update of "Aje: Selling Drinks to the Base of the Pyramid" (M-1254-E), including the events of 2016. A series of adverse macroeconomic trends converged during financial year 2015 (an uncertain global economic climate and the appreciation of the dollar compared with other currencies), along with an increase in competition and a drop in sales in key markets. These factors forced the company to implement a series of measures to corre...Starting at €8.20