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Cooper Industries, Inc.

By: Thomas R. Piper
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Abstract

The executive president of a major industrial company must decide 1) whether to acquire a small hand tool company and, if so, 2) the value and form that the acquisition package should take.

Keywords

Decisions; Valuation; Acquisition; Management Teams; Consumer Products Industry

Citation

Piper, Thomas R. "Cooper Industries, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 274-116, December 1973. (Revised November 1993.)
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