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Week 8 DiscussionCOLLAPSE
Choose ONE of the following discussion question options to respond to:
Six Deadly Sins of M&A
–OR-
Strategic Alliances
Post your initial response by Wednesday, midnight of your time zone, and reply to at least 2 of your classmates’ initial posts by Sunday, midnight of your time zone.
!st person to respond to is Christina
Hi Class,
“Eddie Lampert, chairman of Kmart, purchased Sears for $11 billion in 2004, changing the name of the company to Sears Holdings” (Delventhal, 1). Kmart and Sears were both very similar companies and both companies were not well off at the time. Part of Jack’s Six Deadly Sins of Mergers and Acquisitions, is to beware the “merger of equals”. It doesn’t add value by merging very similar companies and they end up fighting about which one should be in charge. “Sears Holdings filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Oct. 15, 2018, at which time it had 700 stores across the U.S., $6.9 billion in assets and $11.3 billion in liabilities” (1). Since the merger their revenue continues to go down, while their competitors keep going up. Instead of experiencing with new management techniques and being distant, Lampert should have put a solid management plan in place and make sure to oversee it. Had he been more hands on and more involved Sears Holdings might have been in a much better position today.
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2nd peraon to respond Erica’
Hey Dr. G and Class!
I have selected Six Deadly Sins of M&A for this week’s DQ.
This week, in Welch’s article, we have learned that no company should shy away from M & M&A, just from its six most common pitfalls (1). The six most common pitfalls are:
Locate and post a link to an article published in the last five years in The Wall Street Journal, or another reputable source, about a merger or acquisition that did not go as planned.
The article I found published within the last five years was about the Amazon, and Whole Foods failed merger “One Reason Mergers Fail: The Two Cultures Are Not Compatible.”One Reason Mergers Fail: The Two Cultures Are not Compatible (hbr.org)
Which of these “sins” were committed, what issues arose as a result, and what behaviors could the organization have employed to prevent these errors?
Out of the six sins Welch covered, the one that arose with this acquisition was sin two “2. Recognize that the cultural fit of two companies is as important as strategic fit (1). The deal would allow Amazon to spread into a different sector and grow customer data analysis and allow Whole Foods to be more competitive by lowering pricing. The two companies failed to investigate their cultural compatibility before merging, and now they stand on a fault line researchers call tightness versus looseness (2). The companies could have researched each other culture before the acquisition to identify areas of opportunities to compromise. They also could have outlined the changes and made sure everyone in both organizations understood the changes to help team members embrace the upcoming changes.
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