{"id":3778,"date":"2009-11-17T16:01:56","date_gmt":"2009-11-17T21:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=3778"},"modified":"2011-02-17T16:50:44","modified_gmt":"2011-02-17T21:50:44","slug":"time-warner-finally-dumping-aol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/11\/17\/time-warner-finally-dumping-aol\/","title":{"rendered":"Time Warner (finally) dumping AOL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3782\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2009\/11\/AOL-Time-Warner-logo3-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"AOL-Time Warner logo\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2009\/11\/AOL-Time-Warner-logo3-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2009\/11\/AOL-Time-Warner-logo3.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>By spinning off AOL on December 9th, Time Warner will <a title=\"end\" href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/Time-Warner-Declares-Spinoff-bw-392336753.html?x=0&amp;.v=1\" target=\"_blank\">end<\/a> what is regarded as one of the most disastrous corporate mergers in history.\u00a0 School of Management Professor <a title=\"N. Venkat Venkatraman\" href=\"http:\/\/smgnet.bu.edu\/mgmt_new\/profiles\/VenkatramanN.html\" target=\"_blank\">N. Venkat Venkatraman<\/a> says it should be a lesson for those who seek &#8220;synergy&#8221; but don&#8217;t consider how the combined entity can actually create value for customers and shareholders.<\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-us\"><em>\u201cThis corporate combination &#8212; conceived at the height of the dotcom boom &#8212; valued the company at $163 billion.\u00a0 Now the same assets are valued at $3.4 billion.\u00a0 What more data do managers need to know the downside risks of corporate combinations?\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-us\">Contact N. Venkat Venkatraman, 617-353-7117, <a href=\"mailto:venkat@bu.edu\">venkat@bu.edu<\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By spinning off AOL on December 9th, Time Warner will end what is regarded as one of the most disastrous corporate mergers in history.\u00a0 School of Management Professor N. Venkat Venkatraman says it should be a lesson for those who seek &#8220;synergy&#8221; but don&#8217;t consider how the combined entity can actually create value for customers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3778"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3778"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8288,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3778\/revisions\/8288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}