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  • August 2021
  • Teaching Note

Air Products' Pursuit of Airgas
By: Charles C.Y. Wang and Paul M. Healy
Teaching Note for HBS Case Nos. 116-024, 116-025, 118-080, and 118-081.  View Details
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  • August 2021
  • Supplement

Airgas Valuation Instructor
By: Charles C.Y. Wang
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  • August 2021
  • Supplement

Airgas Valuation Student
By: Charles CY Wang
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  • February 2018
  • Supplement

Air Products' Pursuit of Airgas (C)
By: Charles C.Y. Wang, Paul M. Healy and Kyle Thomas
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  • February 2018
  • Supplement

Air Products' Pursuit of Airgas (D)
By: Charles C.Y. Wang, Paul M. Healy and Kyle Thomas
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  • September 2017
  • Article

Reexamining Staggered Boards and Shareholder Value
By: Charles C.Y. Wang and Alma Cohen
Cohen and Wang (2013) (CW2013) provide evidence consistent with market participants perceiving staggered boards to be value reducing. Amihud and Stoyanov (2016) (AS2016) contests these findings, reporting some specifications under which the results are not...  View Details
Keywords: Staggered Boards; Takeover Defense; Antitakeover Provision; Firm Value; Delaware; Airgas; Governing and Advisory Boards; Corporate Governance; Value
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  • 2015
  • Working Paper

Staggered Boards and Shareholder Value: A Reply to Amihud and Stoyanov
By: Alma Cohen and Charles C.Y. Wang
In a paper published in the Journal of Financial Economics in 2013, we provided evidence that market participants perceive staggered boards to be on average value-reducing. In a recent response paper, Amihud and Stoyanov (2015) “contest” our results. They...  View Details
Keywords: Staggered Boards; Takeover Defense; Antitakeover Provision; Firm Value; Agency Costs; Delaware; Chancery Court; Airgas; Governing and Advisory Boards; Acquisition; Corporate Governance; Business and Shareholder Relations; Delaware
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  • November 2015 (Revised March 2018)
  • Supplement

Air Products' Pursuit of Airgas (B)
By: Charles C.Y. Wang, Paul M. Healy and Kyle Thomas
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  • November 2015 (Revised March 2018)
  • Case

Air Products' Pursuit of Airgas (A)
By: Charles C.Y. Wang, Paul M. Healy, Penelope Rossano and Kyle Thomas
This case centers around the Air Products' hostile takeover attempt of Airgas in 2010. Air Products argued that its offer of a 38% premium is generous given Airgas' poor performance, which Air Products attributed to underperforming and entrenched managers at Airgas. On...  View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Business and Shareholder Relations; Industrial Products Industry; Energy Industry; Chemical Industry
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  • June 2014
  • Case

Airgas, Inc.
By: Eric Van den Steen and Jason Karl
In 2013, Airgas was the market leader in packaged industrial gas distribution. Recent acquisitions had made it into a larger player in upstream gas production as well, where it competed with Praxair and Air Products. Should Airgas continue building a position in gas...  View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Competitive Strategy; Competency and Skills; Value Creation
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  • December 2013
  • Article

How Do Staggered Boards Affect Shareholder Value? Evidence from a Natural Experiment
By: Alma Cohen and Charles C.Y. Wang
The well-established negative correlation between staggered boards (SBs) and firm value could be due to SBs leading to lower value or a reflection of low-value firms' greater propensity to maintain SBs. We analyze the causal question using a natural experiment...  View Details
Keywords: Staggered Board; Takeover Defense; Antitakeover Provision; Proxy Fight; Tobin's; Firm Value; Agency Cost; Delaware; Chancery Court; Airgas; Governing and Advisory Boards; Corporate Governance
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