Quaker Oats Acquires Snapple

(1) What were the terms of the deal?

(2) How did it finally work out? What were the losses?

(3) What went wrong?

(4) What eventually happened to Quaker?

Mattel Acquires The Learning Co.

(1) What were the terms of the deal?

(2) How did the shareholders react?

(3) What went wrong?

(4) How was this an example of momentum thinking or growth illusion?

AOL and Time Warner

(1) What were the terms of the deal?

(2) How did the shareholders of each firm react?

(3) What went wrong?

(4) Why was AOL CEO Steve Case anxious to complete a stock-financed acquisition?

(5) Whose shareholders bore most of the loss from this merger?