resulted in HP writing of $8.8 Billion dollars of Autonomy’s value. HP’s relationships with its employees, shareholders, and partners have been damaged. The acquisition, therefore, has proven an example of poor execution. If the purpose of a merger or acquisition is to increase the economic value of the resulting consolidated corporate enterprise, the 2011 acquisition of British software company Autonomy Corporation by Hewlett Packard failed on several levels. HP’s corporate culture was such
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Project Portfolio Management at XYZ Pharma Early morning, Monday 29th August 2005. John Smith, head of portfolio management and strategic planning, was paging through the slides he had prepared for the Portfolio Management Board (PMB) meeting which would start at 9 am, and which was scheduled to last until Friday. “We have been preparing this meeting for weeks”, he thought, “and it seems the PMB has some tough decisions to make”. The PMB of XYZ Pharma, the pharmaceutical division of XYZ, one of
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Horizontal Merger When a merger between companies in the same industry occurs it is called a horizontal merger. Horizontal mergers usually happen in industries with fewer companies, because competition tends to be higher and potential gains in these kinds of mergers often deliver better results. (MBDA, n.d.). Example A merger between Nike and the Rebook shoe companies, for example, would be an example of a horizontal merger. The purpose of a horizontal merger is to create a larger organization
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The wine industry is one that is very unique and different from the standard food/beverage industry. Specifically, the wine industry relies heavily on the weather and the various businesses utilize the weather data in order to forecast and calculate their production quantity as well as the quality of their crops. The grapes life cycle is extremely sensitive to changes in temperature and is therefore, very cyclical. For example, “grapes grown on east-facing slopes exposed to gentle morning sunlight
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Comcast and Time Warner Merger One of the largest and most controversial proposed mergers in recent history is the acquisition of Time Warner Cable by Comcast. This proposed acquisition was structured through a friendly agreement between Time Warner Cable and Comcast. Comcast, the initiator of this merger, is set to acquire Time Warner Cable’s eleven million managed service subscribers, Time Warner’s other equity holdings in areas such as Sterling Enterprises and DukeNet Communications, along
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product as they deliver their products to schools a week before the start of the school year. Scrubs produces uniforms for hospital staff. Both companies have consulted with their financial department and received a report stating the benefits of the merger. However, there is some concern with respect to the differences in managerial accounting procedures. The main differences are stated below. Orders CoolSchool: CoolSchool delivers to a fixed number of schools each year. The schools provide CoolSchool
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MGMT E 2720 Mergers and Acquisitions Supplemental Case Questions 1. The New York Times a. Why is there so much family control in the newspaper business? b. How did the Sulzberger family manage to retain control on the NYT after it went public? c. How does the NYT dual class structure differ from the one used by Dow Jones, prior to its takeover by Rupert Murdoch? d. What explains the behavior of the NYT institutional shareholders – not just Morgan Stanley but also
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reflects the norms of just one culture and inherits the cultural conflict. In such cases, structural change becomes necessary to make the system more sensitive to cultural norms of other people ESLSCA GROUP 43E PAGE 2 CASE STUDY MERGERS DON'T ALWAYS LEAD TO CULTURE CLASHES Conclusion & Recommendations People can prevent culture clashes by learning about cultures that they come in contact with. This knowledge can be obtained through training programs, general reading, talking
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I: Introduction I. A: Rationale/Motivation Over the past two decades, cross-border or international mergers and acquisitions (IM&As) have become the favored method of foreign direct investment (FDI). The form shows that IM&As go both ways: toward developing countries and from them, reshaping the world’s economic boundaries. Trends notwithstanding, researchers suggest that, overall, the expected financial benefits of M&As are often not recognized. The highest rate of failures has been linked
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