ASSIGNMENT 1: Acquisition of Lodestone by Infosys Aayush Nangru | 11BM60023 In September 2012‚ Infosys announced the acquisition of Zurich-based Lodestone Holding AG‚ a leading management consultancy firm‚ for 330 million Swiss francs ($345 million or Rs.1‚925 crore). Lodestone advises international companies on strategy and process optimization‚ and provides business transformation solutions enabled by SAP ’s enterprise solutions. Lodestone clocked revenues of $210 million in 2011. Of this‚
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RESEARCH PROPOSAL TOPIC: AN INVESTIGATION ON THE IMPACT OF FULL ACQUISITION IN EUROPE‚ ASIA AND AFRICA IN THE LAST DACADE ON THE ACQUIRING AND TARGET COMPANIES INTRODUCTION While it is understood through several researches that targets companies’ shareholders realize stock market gains with acquisition announcement‚ a significant number of studies have found that corporate acquisition generates negative returns for the shareholders of the acquiring company. Baines‚ (1978)‚ Firth‚ (1980)
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Executive Summary In early 2002‚ Chris Wornald‚ as the director of strategic alliances for RIM‚ believed the tremendous synergy value offered from the acquisition of Slangsoft and its importance for RIM’s future Asian market. However‚ after his successful presentation on the deal to senior executives‚ one piece of archived news on Jerusalem Post got the attention from RIM’s director of legal affairs. The widespread panic and paranoia among Slangsoft employees‚ unrealized revenue from HP and multiple
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c Alice Munro’s narrative "Oranges and Apples" is based on the two main characters Victor Sawicky‚ the golden palomino and Barbara Zeigler‚ the looker. Barbara is a married woman who is having an affair with the best friend of her husband named Victor Sawicky. She is married to Murray Zeigler‚ the crown prince of Walley‚ who is also another main character in our story. However Victor refuses Barbara afterwards because she was his kind and he feels guilty for having such a relationship with her and
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What was the 1850 Compromise and Why did it Fail? In 1850‚ Henry Clay one of the most influential political leaders in American history introduced a set of resolutions‚ which aimed to please both North and South America. The five proposals were rolled into a single ‘omnibus’ bill‚ which offered a solution to the growing sectional conflict over slavery and westward expansion‚ which arose from the 1846 Mexican War. The 1850 Compromise‚ which Senator Douglas stripped down and effectively helped
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Why are there mergers and acquisitions? Mergers and acquisitions take place for a number of reasons‚ such as refinancing for a better price‚ amplifying expansion‚ and submerging risk through diversification. New entities may drag behind after a merger takes place due to the higher cost of matching different and unconnected economic activities. Diversification by business groups may also reduce technical effectiveness. When a merger takes place‚ a bigger business groups emerges from the two which
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Talent acquisition is the ongoing cycle of processes related to attracting‚ sourcing‚ recruiting‚ and hiring (or placing) employees within an organization. This includes elements of employment branding‚ outreach‚ networking‚ and relationship building with potential candidate communities to continually build and enhance the talent pool for an organization. “We need to understand what makes them mad‚ sad‚ and glad” Challenges of Talent Acquisition and Retention in an era of Brain
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American Lawyer 2d yr full time possible exam – 1-1.5 on last day ------------------------------------------------- Jan. 10‚ 2012 Why take this class? * Reason 1: Leveraged acquisitions (LAs) aren’t going away * Lots of decline in 2007‚ 08‚ 09 * 10‚ 11‚ 12 little better * M&A isn’t going anywhere * LA and PE isn’t going anywhere – may decrease‚ but doubtful * Over 1 tril. avail. * Big factor: big institutional investors (pension funds
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MERGER AND ACQUISITION (M&A) Mergers and acquisitions (abbreviated M&A) is an aspect of corporate strategy‚ corporate finance and management dealing with the buying‚ selling‚ dividing and combining of different companies and similar entities that can help an enterprise grow rapidly in its sector or location of origin‚ or a new field or new location‚ without creating a subsidiary‚ other child entity or using a joint venture. The distinction between a "merger" and an "acquisition" has become
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In recent years human resource (HR) managers have been encouraged to play a more strategic role in their organizations‚ especially in the case of extensive organizational change processes such as international mergers and acquisitions (IM&As). Today this requirement is even more acute since the past decade has been characterized by enormous growth in IM&As. In addition‚ it has been argued that the challenge in making M&As work is the management of people. In a case of IM&As the role of HR managers
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