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- BNET's David Hamilton on Genentech-Roche
- BNET Industries editor, David Hamilton, blogs up the skinny on Roche's attempted acquisition of biotech giant, Genentech. Writes Hamilton: The deal also has a funny smell to it. Roche CEO Severin Schwan claims the merger would save $800 million a year in administrative costs from merging commercial and manufacturing...
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- A "Chewable" Poison Pill?
- Remember the scene in the movie "M*A*S*H*" when Painless the dentist decides to commit suicide by downing the poisonous "Black Capsule?" Following a Last Supper-style scene with his cronies and some tender nursing care, however, Painless comes back to life. Well, that's sort of what what Harvard...
- Blog posts 2008-06-25
- M&A Failure Often Follows M&A Success
- The Find: One successful merger or acquisition may actually make a CEO less likely to find success with M&A decisions in the future. The Source: An article in the "Management Insights" feature in the current issue of "Management Science." The Takeaway: If your CEO...
- Blog posts 2008-06-13
- Behind the Ouster of Wachovia's CEO
- First they stripped G. Kennedy Thompson of his role as Chairman of Wachovia Corp. Now, they're forcing the CEO of the nation's fourth largest bank to retire. Sounds like another tale of C-Suite woe for major banks. Indeed, financial institutions have been taking hit after hit in...
- Blog posts 2008-06-03
- How to Execute a Merger
- Planning and brokering an M&A deal is the easy part. It's after the ink is dry that the real work begins. Here's how to navigate this critical period in five key steps. Set Expectations GOAL: Ensure...
- Articles 2008-05-06
- Creating a Temporary News Web Site for Major Events
- My colleague Sean Silverthorne over at BNET's Harvard Business School blog tips me off to the temporary news web site created for the announcement of the proposed Delta-Northwest merger. His post is entitled "The Press Release of the Future" and indeed, this is a very creative, smart and modern way...
- Blog posts 2008-05-02
- The Press Release of the Future
- The proposed merger between Delta and Northwest Airlines has already produced one visionary byproduct: the press release of the future. That's the word from Harvard Online blogger Scott Berinato, who drools over the effectiveness of this joint announcement, which is not so much press release as communications...
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
- Investment Risk in Africa Now on Par with Asia
- The Find: More than half of M&A deal-makers expressed significant interest in China, India and Southeast Asia despite their belief that risks in the region nearly equal those in Africa. The Source: "M&A Beyond Borders: Opportunities and Risks," commissioned...
- Blog posts 2008-04-22
- XM and Sirius: Can Two Wrongs Make a Right?
- The Department of Justice finally approved the merger, but there are a few more hurdles yet. Are two of the most useless companies in the world finally ready to join forces?
- Videos 2008-04-18
- Duane Reade Taps Ex-Loblaw Chief as CEO
- John A. Lederer, who helmed the largest grocery chain in Canada for seven years, will take over this week as Chairman and CEO for Duane Reade, the largest pharmacy chain in New York City. Who is John Lederer? He spent 30 years at Loblaw Cos. Ltd., which...
- Blog posts 2008-04-03
- When Your Boss is Doogie Howser
- A friend of mine recently was part of a merger that left him reporting to a boss in his mid-30s. Since my friend is 53 -- about the age of his superior's own parents -- he found the relationship more than a little awkward. So I was...
- Blog posts 2008-04-02
- Deals Without Delusions
- The Idea in Brief Half of all acquiring companies pay more for target firms than they're worth. Often it's because of executives' mental biases: Their interest in a deal keeps them from being objective about its value....
- Articles 2008-04-01
- Steve Yoder Explains How to Be a Good Wall Street Journal Source
- I had the pleasure of serving on a PRSA Silicon Valley Media Training panel last Friday with Steve Yoder, San Francisco bureau chief of the The Wall Street Journal. Steve was very generous with his time and shared many tips and strategies for doing a better job working with the...
- Blog posts 2008-03-31
- Pink Slips at Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley
- No, that's not a ticker-tape parade over Wall Street. It's raining pink slips. Goldman Sachs, which said in January it would cut 5 percent of its jobs, has upped that figure to 15%, according to the New York Post. According to sources familiar with the matter,...
- Blog posts 2008-03-24
- BNP Paribas Rides Away from SoGen Rescue
- You know things are bad when even the calvary gets scared. BNP Paribas is backing out of its potential merger with Societe Generale, the troubled French financial giant walloped by an errant trader who racked up $7 billion in losses earlier this year. In an announcement, BNP said, "Given...
- Blog posts 2008-03-19
- Regulators May Have a Beef with JBS Deal
- Plans by JBS SA, a major global meatpacker based in Brazil, to spend about $1.2 billion in cash and stock to acquire two U.S. beef businesses are so audacious that they seem almost intent on drawing the close attention of federal regulators The deals are almost...
- Blog posts 2008-03-12
- BofA-Countrywide Deal in Jeopardy?
- Bank of America's proposed purchase of troubled lender Countrywide may have hit a snag: An influential California consumer-advocacy group is calling for state regulators to hold public hearings on the deal so that homeowners can have their say. This is far from a threat to derail the...
- Blog posts 2008-03-08
- Yahoo's Brain Drain Continues
- At Yahoo, it’s another day, another re-org. Tim Cadogan, Yahoo’s S.V.P. of Global Advertising Marketplaces, has resigned, the latest hemorrhage in the ongoing brain drain from the progenitor of search advertising. The smart, affable Brit had successfully spearheaded the company’s “Panama†effort, which wholly...
- Blog posts 2008-02-29
- Mad in Seattle: Microsoft's Proxy Fight Is All Wrong
- I know this marks me as oh-so-last century, but one American military officer fighting in Vietnam was quoted as saying, "We had to destroy the village to save it." In other words, to prevent the village from falling into the hands of the Commies, it had to be torched. ...
- Blog posts 2008-02-20
- Yahoo's Bottomless Bureaucratic Maw; or, a Story of Management Meltdown
- Yesterday my former boss’s boss at Yahoo was sacked. His sacking â€" the first in a series of lay-offs that will see at least 1,000 others fall to the axe â€" even appeared in a “so it begins†post on Valleywag. My first reaction as a recent former Yahoo was...
- Blog posts 2008-02-13
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