Shortly after the death of the legendary founder of the company, the person then serving as chairman and as president - Lewis A. Sanders and Roger Hertog, respectively - talked about the future of his company. Sanford C. Bernstein & Co, a private investment company, has grown rapidly clients, assets under management and staff during the previous decade. Its institutional research department, who served as equity research for the distribution of key financial executives around the world, is considered one of the best of these sources in the industry. His own business, money management to manage $ 87.4 billion in 1999. However, the conditions, the market has become more challenging for value-based management in the late 1990s, the most important portfolios were underperforming their company guidelines. In addition, although the investment management industry has grown, it has also consolidated. The company faces a number of questions: How is it will depend on the death of its founder? What was its competitive advantage? Does the base system of the company should change in the new competitive environment? There were rumors about Bernstein going public in the future, merging or acquired. If the firm to even consider any of these options? How many were firmly? "Hide
by Boris Groysberg, Anahita Hashemi Source: Harvard Business School 27 pages. Publication Date: November 21, 2003. Prod. #: 404001-PDF-ENG
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