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...both the Mass. fund and the ITT Corporation, which are limited partners in the bid, have complained that Kohlberg, Kravis, the general partner in the arrangement, is following a hostile takeover strategy, since RJR Nabisco's board of directors has not consented to the plan...
...officials at Harvard and ITT said yesterday that it was not possible to refuse funding for a specific takeover in a limited partnership...
...they take effect, the Philip Morris and RJR Nabisco deals may prove to be textbook cases of smart corporate strategies. They could also turn out to be flops -- or so U.S. business history would suggest. In the 1960s some of America's most celebrated executives, including Harold Geneen at ITT and Charles Thornton at Litton Industries, acquired scores of companies and built huge conglomerates. Like many empires, they eventually declined. A similar fate may await some of today's dealmakers...
...role. For nearly four decades following World War II, the U.S. did the buying, savoring its role as the globe's foremost exporter of capital. U.S. investment power was so great that in 1968 French Economics Journalist Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber predicted that American multinational companies like IBM and ITT threatened to turn Western Europe into an economic province. Concern about foreign cash flowing into the U.S. arose briefly in the 1970s, when a weak U.S. dollar and the emerging clout of OPEC prompted fear of an Arab buying spree. By and large, however, the cautious oil sheiks steered their...
Americans are flocking back to Europe. -- Citicorp, Ford and ITT join the exodus from South Africa. -- The Toshiba scandal grows...