SUMMARY In 2006‚ Merrill Lynch become the lead book runner for a $5 billion convertible bond issue for MoGen‚ Inc.‚ which was the single-largest convertible bond issuance in history. Merrill Lynch’s Equity Derivatives Group needed to convince MoGen’s management of the best coupon rate and conversion premium for MoGen and the potential investors in the issue. BACKGROUND MoGen‚ Inc was one of the leading company in the biotechnology industry. MoGen (Molecular Genetics) emerged with two of the
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Haixiang Yu ACC 308 Jan.17‚ 2013 “BioHemi‚ Inc.” I strongly disagree to continue to sell the old product and complete the fix-price contracts. I am sure that the unemulsified plasma product allows more people to be infected with AIDS and it had been proved by CDC in 1983. I am an accountant who is responsible to generate profits for the company‚ but it is reasonable for a professional accountant to considerate ethics first. Ethics is moral philosophy‚ which means that people have strong
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Spike Hoban Civics Period 3 Monsters‚ Inc. The movie Monsters‚ Inc. is based on an electric company in the monster world. The company‚ Monsters‚ Inc. produces electricity for their city through obtaining screams of children and refining the screams into clean energy to run the city. And like any company in any kind of world‚ monster or human‚ things need to run smoothly. Many things need to fall into place for a company or business to become successful and obtain profitability. Certain resources
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The Strategic Human Capital Case Study Ecolab‚ Inc. The Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School Case Study --- Ecolab‚ Inc. Question 1: How does Ecolab make money? What is Ecolab’s competitive advantage? There are several reasons that Ecolab makes money. Firstly‚ from 1985‚ Ecolab implemented a new strategy called “Circle the customer‚ circle the globe”. That was a strategy that providing to Ecolab’s principal customers total solutions – both products and services
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Chadwick Inc: The Balanced Scorecard a) Develop the balanced scorecard for the Norwalk Pharmaceutical Division of Chadwick‚ Inc. What parts of the business strategy that John Greenfield sketched out should be included? Are there any parts that should be excluded or cannot be made operational? What are the scorecard measures you should use to implement your scorecard in the Norwalk Pharmaceutical Division? What are the new measures that need to be developed‚ and how would you go about developing
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BUAD 490 3/14/13 Team Written Case Analysis (Concise) Biodel‚ Inc. BIODEL INC. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Biodel’s use of biotechnology expertise in the three prime areas of Cell Biology‚ Molecular Biology‚ and Immunodiagnostics has led their company into some great opportunities. Biodel created a synthetic serum to replace fetal calf serum and horse serum‚ and provide a more consistently available product for scientific researchers. Biodel’s Molecular Biology division used DNA technology to
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| TRENDSETTERS INC. Term sheet Negotiations | Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital | | | Introduction: Trendsetter Inc. was formed by Wendy Borg and Jason Kushdog‚ the CEO and the COO respectively‚ in March 2000‚ to deliver innovative warehouse and distribution management software program for clothing retailers. The “founders” started the firm after quitting their respective jobs and decided to pool in their savings in the firm. The software produced by the firm would contain a demand
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Income Statement - 1H03 A B 1 Chemalite‚ Inc. 2 Income Statement from January 1‚ 2003 to June 30‚ 2003 3 4 Sales $0 5 Cost of Sales $0 6 Gross Profit $0 7 Depreciation Expenses $0 8 Operating Expense ($7‚500) 9 Net Income ($7‚500) 10 Cash Flows - 1H03 A B 1 Chemalite‚ Inc. 2 Cash Flows Statement from January 1‚ 2003 to June 30‚ 2003 3 4 Cash flows from Operating Activities 5 Cash collections $0 6 Cash payments for purchases ($75‚000) 7 Cash payments for
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Beginning Again The Dr. Jerry Carter Jr. comes from Columbus Ohio. He is the fourteenth pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church in Morristown‚ New Jersey. On Tuesday‚ August 25th‚ Dr. Carter took his scripture from Jonah 3:1 (KJV)‚ that scripture read‚ “and the word of the Lord came unto Jonah the second time.” He entitled his sermon “Beginning Again”. He began by telling a story about a woman named Louise Fletcher Carpenter who was a nineteenth century poet. One of her most powerful
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Monsters Inc. Monsters Inc. might just be seen as a Pixar animated kid’s movie when you first see it‚ but when you look deeper into it‚ you can see many similarities to general economic concepts‚ as well as our economy today. There are two totally different worlds in the movie; there is the world of the monsters and then there is the world of the humans‚ however‚ the monsters have to rely on the humans to survive. The monsters have to steal the screams of human children to use as a source of
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