March 1998 (Revised May 1998)
Case
HBS Case Collection

Argentina's YPF Sociedad Anonima (Abridged)

By: Michael Y. Yoshino, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Cate Reavis

Format:Print
| Language:English
| Pages:20

Abstract

Describes the privatization of YPF Sociedad Anonima and the company's dilemma of whether to acquire a troubled U.S. oil company as a way of becoming a global oil company.

Keywords

Mergers and Acquisitions; Globalization; Privatization

Citation

Yoshino, Michael Y., Carin-Isabel Knoop, and Cate Reavis. "Argentina's YPF Sociedad Anonima (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 398-064, March 1998. (Revised May 1998.)