October 2006

Previously in Part 1 and Part 2, we discussed the possibility of Jack Welch acquiring The Boston Globe. We’ve discussed several things Jack might do, if the deal goes through. All of which, has to do with the Profit Tree model, which is below: We know that the Globe’s circulation recently dropped by as much [...]

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This is part 1 of a 3 part series. The other parts can be found here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3. Previously in Part 1, we discussed the Profit Tree for the newspaper print industry, which is shown below: From the very little data we have, we know that Sunday circulation has dropped by [...]

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This is part 1 of a 3 part series. The other parts can be found here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3. There’s a rumor that Jack Welch and his private equity partners might acquire The Boston Globe. When I heard this, I immediately thought of the following: if Welch bought it, how would he [...]

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I’m interested in the Deal Flow community of where ever I’ve lived.  I’ve followed Deal Flow in Chicago, where we lived for a few years while I was in graduate school and in Southern California, where we just moved from 10 months ago. I recently obtained access to a pretty accurate Deal Flow database for [...]

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