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...became entangled in a leveraged buyout of RJR Nabisco, prompting controversy over whether Harvard should be involved in hostile takeovers...
...Lauren, and the consumer side of business, like "Gridlock" and "Bad Service," and he edited one on "The Simple Life." As Business editor toward the end of the '80s, he had many encounters with the darker side, including a cover story called "A Game of Greed," in which RJR-Nabisco chief Ross Johnson's callous quotes about his proposed leveraged buyout of the company helped seal his deal's failure...
Already, unsolicited bids--the preferred '80s raider weapon--are on the rise. The value of these bids more than doubled last year, to $5 billion, reports Thomson Financial. Meanwhile, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, which became a household name with its $25 billion takeover of RJR Nabisco in 1989, is in the process of raising $6 billion, its largest pool ever for deals...
Icahn, though, has clearly stepped up his pace, pushing Nabisco Holdings into the arms of Philip Morris and briefly rattling mighty GM's cage with a large stock purchase last year. Now he's thrusting himself into the middle of American Airlines' plans to buy TWA--long after he sold his controlling interest in the latter...
Tobacco giants Philip Morris and R. J. Reynolds unveiled a deal Sunday that would make any street-corner sleight-of-hand practitioner proud. Philip Morris will supplement its already prodigious Kraft Foods properties by buying Nabisco Holdings, producer of national treasures like Oreos and Ritz crackers, for $14.9 billion. Once that transaction is completed, Nabisco Group Holdings (the parent company of Nabisco Holdings), will be acquired by the R. J. Reynolds tobacco company - the same company Nabisco Group divested itself of just one year ago - for $9.8 billion...