Word: mergers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...both strategies--to engulf and to disgorge--actually be reconciled in today's business world? Richard D'Aveni, a professor of corporate strategy at Dartmouth's Amos Tuck School of Business, sees plenty of room for deals along the lines of both the Time Warner merger and the AT&T breakup. (Businessman Donald Perkins and former U.S. Trade Representative Carla Hills sit on both boards, which voted for conflicting goals.) D'Aveni discerns an intrinsic cycle: poorly conceived mergers turning into spin-offs. The aim is to dominate a market, as Microsoft rules software, Delta dominates the Atlanta airport...
...have been four probusiness cycles in the U.S. since 1850: the post-Civil War "Gilded Age" ending in the 1880s; the Roaring Twenties; the post-World War II expansion from 1950 to the mid-'60s; and the current cycle, which began in the late '70s and has seen the merger mania of the '80s extend into the present. All previous cycles lasted about 12 to 20 years and ended in periods of heavy regulation. There are now signs, says the Report, that "strategic overreaching is already provoking a new countertide." Among the symptoms: public opinion worried about the ruling party...
...spread, so did a lot of other people. When the acquisition is complete, Time Warner will regain its rank as the world's largest media company, ahead of the newly combined Walt Disney and Capital Cities/ABC. "This is far and away the dream deal," boasts Levin, who called the merger with Turner "a sublime combination." The deal brings together a vast collection of brand names in Time Warner's movie, music and publishing divisions (including TIME magazine) and Turner's cable and TV news operations...
...first immediate product of the merger was the spectacle of the irrepressible Turner at play on a larger, more conservative stage. Standing in the glare of TV lights, he conceded that the price of Time Warner stock had been languishing. "Just because you're flat for a while doesn't mean that you can't take off," he retorted. "I mean, look at the shuttle program. Every now and then one blows up. But they keep on going, Bubba. We might have a bad year or two. But overall it's going to be up and away, like Superman...
...know about this in detail. I have not read the book and I really don't have any comment on it at all said Scott, who has since left Harvard and is now a financial officer at Partners Healthcare Inc., the new corporate identity of the merger of two Harvard teaching hospitals--Mass. General and Brigham and Women...