WMX 4387 J. Sheppard email: sheppard@sfu.ca
Research
Exercise D: The Bayer Monsanto Merger
Headache
Why would anyone buy a company who, at
one time or another, made PCBs, the
insecticide DDT, Agent Orange, the herbicide glyphosate, recombinant bovine
growth hormone, and the never-introduced
terminator technology for seeds?
Group
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Focus
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Questions
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A or 1
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Accounting
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Where
is the accounting failure in Bayer’s purchase of Monsanto?
Where
did the accountants mess up?
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B or 2
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Finance
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Did
Bayer overpay on this deal? If so, by how much did they overpay?
What
would you have done differently (aside from not doing the deal)?
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C or 3
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Human
Resource Management
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Are
these two corporate cultures compatible?
How
would you get them to work together?
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D or 4
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International
Business
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Are
these two corporate cultures compatible?
Why
was Bayer blindsided by their legal exposure regarding glyphosates?
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E or 5
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Operations
Management
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What
Operations does Monsanto have that should have been a red flag to anyone
thinking of acquiring the company?
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F or 6
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Marketing
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How
does Bayer, a well-respected pharmaceutical maker, avoid
sullying its reputation because it bought Monsanto?
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G or 7
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Strategic
Analysis
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What
is the logic behind buying Monsanto?
What
businesses, at this point, would you recommend divesting and/or buying?
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