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The Auction for Travelport (A)
Hagiu, Andrei; Sanwal, Misha R.Case HBS-710474-EStrategyA senior Blackstone director is deciding how aggressively to bid for Travelport, a travel distribution business containing several key services and platforms. Travelport's most important properties were Galileo, one of the top 3 global distribution systems (GDSs), CheapTickets and Orbitz, two online travel agencies. Blackstone was competing in an auction against several other large private equity firms with multi billion dollar investment funds...Starting at €8.20
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Inside Procter & Gamble's New Model for Innovation (Spanish version)
Huston, Larry; Sakkab, NabilArticle HBS-R0603CStrategyThis 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. For generations, Procter & Gamble generated most of its phenomenal growth by innovating from within--building global research facilities and hiring the best talent in the world. Back when companies were smaller and the world was less competitive, that model worked ...Starting at €8.20
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Connect and Develop: Inside Procter & Gamble's New Model for Innovation
Huston, Larry; Sakkab, NabilArticle HBS-R0603C-EStrategyThis 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. For generations, Procter & Gamble generated most of its phenomenal growth by innovating from within--building global research facilities and hiring the best talent in the world. Back when companies were smaller and the world was less competitive, that model worked ...Starting at €8.20
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The Auction for Travelport (B)
Hagiu, Andrei; Sanwal, Misha R.Case HBS-710475-EStrategyThis short case presents the epilogue of The Auction for Travelport (A). Blackstone decided to bid on its own, acquired Travelport for $4.3 billion and subsequently went on to acquire another GDS, Travelspan, for $1.4 billion. It then merged the two GDSs and partially spun off in an IPO its online travel businesses, re-named Orbitz Worldwide; it retained the GDS and wholesale travel businesses. By the end of that year (2006), Blackstone had gener...Starting at €5.74