Boardroom Sieges

Boardroom Sieges

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Boardroom Sieges episodes

  • Mentor, Rival, Merger: The Price Club–Costco Contest
    Mentor, Rival, Merger: The Price Club–Costco Contest
    Welcome to Boardroom Sieges. Today’s conflict is not a hostile takeover. It is a mentor’s company facing the chain built by his former pupil, then joining forces in 1993. We examine the merger, the purchasing power it created, and the discipline required not to squander it.
    15 min
  • The $6.9 Billion Move to Control the AI Network
    The $6.9 Billion Move to Control the AI Network
    Welcome to Boardroom Sieges. No proxy fight defines this story. The decisive corporate move was Nvidia’s purchase of Mellanox, bringing vital networking technology closer to its accelerators. Today, we examine why controlling the connections between machines can matter as much as winning the chip.
    19 min
  • The Birkin, the Family, and the Luxury Empire at the Gates
    The Birkin, the Family, and the Luxury Empire at the Gates
    Welcome to Boardroom Sieges. Today, LVMH’s stake in Hermès brings a question of control into sharp focus. When your most famous product gains value from restraint, who gets to decide how fast the company grows? This is a defense of more than family ownership.
    16 min
  • The Cleveland Massacre and the Long Siege of Standard Oil
    The Cleveland Massacre and the Long Siege of Standard Oil
    Welcome to Boardroom Sieges. Today, Cleveland refinery owners confront purchase offers and an alarming question about tomorrow’s freight rates. Standard Oil buys 22 competitors in less than three months. Decades later, federal lawyers challenge the command structure those purchases helped create.
    18 min

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Inside the high-pressure hotel suites and closed-door votes of legendary corporate raids, activist investor campaigns, and bitter boardroom coups.