Eastern Airlines Facing Bankruptcy In 1986‚ Eastern Airlines was in desperate trouble. The fourth quarter of 1985 had shown a $67.4 million loss‚ and financially experts had told Frank Borman‚ president and chief executive officer‚ that the airline had three choices: 1) a 20 percent pay cut for all union and noncontract employees. 2) Filing for Chapter 11 (bankruptcy) or 3) Selling the airline. On February 23‚ 1986‚ Eastern’s board of directors met to decide the
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Merger & Acquisition for Development and Expansion of Business. Introduction Introduction The terms merger and amalgamation are synonyms and the term ‘amalgamation’‚ as per Concise Oxford Dictionary‚ Tenth Edition‚ means‚ ‘to combine or unite to form one organization or structure’. Merger or an Acquisition in a company sense can be defined as the combination of two or more companies into one new company or corporation. The main difference between a merger and an acquisition lies in
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shareholder rights. In some cases these shareholder actions have stopped deals from taking place where the funds exerted pressure on management as they felt they could achieve higher returns in other ways‚ such as the return of cash to shareholders in the form of a special dividend or where the intrinsic growth potential of the company was seen to be [pic] Figure – Sixth Merger Wave Success Factors Unlike previous merger waves‚ more companies have been successful with their acquisitions than not‚ although
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On the Importance of Managing Intangible Assets as Part of Corporate Strategy Abstract: Given that a high number of companies return value to investors via acquisition rather than a public offering the development of intangible assets is the bait that sets up the acquisition. This paper discusses how companies can fast track to high valuation by strategic growth of certain intangible assets such as customer tribes‚ brands‚ and intellectual property‚ comparing those strategies to larger companies
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Long‚ He‚ Stephanie Rivera ACCT 521: Case Analysis Chapter 12: Case 12-1 Lincoln Electric The Lincoln Electric Company‚ the largest manufacturer of arc welding products and a leading producer of industrial electric motors‚ employs about 2‚400 workers in the US and more worldwide. The firm is known for its incentive management plan. Despite the death of James Lincoln and the recession of 1982-1983‚ the management system prevailed with high profits and bonuses‚ high productivity‚ good employee morale
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Mergers and Acquisitions The impact of mergers and acquisitions on business can be minor in some cases and larger in others. Companies merge with or acquire other companies for the purpose of making money. Sometimes these deals have a sensible reason for being made and other times they are dubious in nature‚ done for the sole purpose of raising the stock price. The sensible reason for merging with or acquiring a company is that it makes economic sense. Either the company is not streamlined‚ under-performing
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systems No doubt taking a knowledge level perspective has greatly improved our understanding of what knowledge systems are and how we can build them. For example‚ it has provoked a profound shift in knowledge acquisition: rather than extracting knowledge from an expert the aim of knowledge acquisition is to build a consolidated model of an expert ’s problem solving behaviour in terms of knowledge. Nevertheless the knowledge level is not beyond critique and several authors have pointed out problems with
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If you have recently filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy‚ you may be wondering what’s going to happen to your car. It’s the most common concern after real estate ownership. If you’d like to keep your vehicle‚ you simply have to know the details regarding your car’s worth and how that applies to the rules of filing for a Chapter 7 bankruptcy. If you have equity in your vehicle‚ you are in the minority of bankruptcy filers. Most bankruptcy filers have an “underwater” vehicle loan; they owe more on the
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Acquisitions versus Greenfield Investments: International Strategy and Management of Entry Modes Author(s): Anne-Wil Harzing Reviewed work(s): Source: Strategic Management Journal‚ Vol. 23‚ No. 3 (Mar.‚ 2002)‚ pp. 211-227 Published by: John Wiley & Sons Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3094362 . Accessed: 31/01/2012 11:49 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use‚ available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp JSTOR is
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Part 3 The bankruptcy of Enron not only significantly impact the employment and pension of workers‚ but also the relevant major financial institutions‚ including investment Banks‚ commercial Banks‚ pension funds and mutual funds. On Feb. 14th‚ 2002‚ the international accounting standards foundation chairman and former Federal Reserve chairman Paul pointed out that the obvious problems in accounting and auditing profession has formed a kind of crisis after a long-term period of existence. A typical
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