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...became entangled in a leveraged buyout of RJR Nabisco, prompting controversy over whether Harvard should be involved in hostile takeovers...
...Ralph 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...
Kreme's rise is evidence that not every sector is taking a beating. Companies like Alcoa and RJR Tobacco, which make or sell basic stuff, such as oil, aluminum, electricity--and, yes, cigarettes--are whipping the tech sector. Oh, did we mention that they earn a profit? How old-fashioned...
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...
...Sunday's RJR-Philip Morris machinations are only the latest round in the companies' ongoing attempts to isolate risky tobacco holdings. Faced with an increasingly unfriendly American marketplace, the corporations are scrambling to protect the stock market performance of non-controversial products (such as like Kraft mayonnaise and macaroni and cheese) from from the legal and legislative vagaries affecting the domestic tobacco market...