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• Case | HBS Case Collection | August 2019

  Legrand's Acquisition of Milestone

  C. Fritz Foley and F. Katelynn Boland

  In June 2017, Legrand, a global specialist in electrical and digital building infrastructure which was a serial acquirer, announced it had signed an agreement to buy Milestone AV Technologies, a leading designer and manufacturer of branded audio-video products. This case describes Legrand's approach to screening, pursuing, and integrating targets as well as the criteria used to evaluate if a deal is successful.

  Keywords: Mergers ＆ Acquisitions; acquisition strategy; Mergers and Acquisitions; Management; Strategy; Corporate Finance; Electronics Industry; Europe; United States;

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  Foley, C. Fritz, and F. Katelynn Boland. "Legrand's Acquisition of Milestone." Harvard Business School Case 220-028, August 2019.  View Details

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• Case | HBS Case Collection | November 2017 (Revised July 2019)

  Project Moab at Hulu

  C. Fritz Foley and James Weber

  In 2015, Elaine Paul, CFO of Hulu, and the rest of the senior leadership team, must decide if they should offer a new, advertisement-free subscription service. At the time Hulu distributed a wide variety of content including in season current programing and earned significant revenues from advertising. This choice had strategic implications and required formulating a view on how the video-on-demand industry would evolve. It also had value implications that can be analyzed in a subscriber-valuation model. The owners of Hulu, which included Disney and Fox, would ultimately need to approve whatever decision was made.

  Keywords: video on demand; subscriber models; Media; Business Model; Decision Choices and Conditions; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; United States;

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  Foley, C. Fritz, and James Weber. "Project Moab at Hulu." Harvard Business School Case 218-050, November 2017. (Revised July 2019.)  View Details

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• Case | HBS Case Collection | November 2018 (Revised January 2019)

  Investor Relations Practices at Edwards Lifesciences

  C. Fritz Foley and F. Katelynn Boland

  In January 2017, the senior leadership team at Edwards Lifesciences were preparing for the quarterly earnings call that would cover the fourth quarter of 2016. They faced questions about what types of information they should disclose on the call, as well as during other key investor relation events that take place throughout the year.

  Keywords: investor relations; medical devices; Corporate Disclosure; Decisions; Business and Shareholder Relations; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; United States;

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  Foley, C. Fritz, and F. Katelynn Boland. "Investor Relations Practices at Edwards Lifesciences." Harvard Business School Case 219-058, November 2018. (Revised January 2019.)  View Details

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