Word: merger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Zeckhauser said the merger represented "the natural evolution for these two organizations...
...biggest skeptic was Lotus chairman Jim Manzi, 43, who had spurned an IBM merger offer in January and learned of the takeover attempt in a phone call from Gerstner at 8:25 a.m. last Monday, five minutes before IBM went public. Manzi swiftly hired investment banker Lazard Freres to plot defense tactics and search for a white knight, such as AT&T or Hewlett-Packard, that would rescue Lotus. No savior had appeared by week's end, however, and Manzi seemed resigned to coming to terms with IBM if it would sweeten its offer. Wall Street watchers expected...
...hostile bid during six months of previous negotiations. "When we found out that Lotus did not want to be acquired, our initial reaction was, well that's that." In the end Gerstner decided that the hostile offer was "in effect the only way we could get it [a merger] started." Such are the challenges of romance when the square falls for someone cool...
...addition, it was Jewett who managed the merger of the admissions processes for Radcliffe and Harvard, according...
These debates also delayed--or staved off,depending on the point of view--the merger ofHarvard and Radcliffe...