Massimo Massa

Professor of Finance
This case, described as the last big merger in the global beer industry, involves a valuation of the merged company using a basic discounted cash flow (DCF) methodology. Students are asked to calculate and compare the value of the merged entity with the standalone valuations of the respective companies to see if there is indeed value in merging.

Published 11 Mar 2024

Reference 6704

Topic Economics & Finance

Industry Consumer Goods Food and Beverages Production

Region Global

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The case describes the lead-up to the offer to acquire Baxalta Inc by Shire PLC in the summer of 2015, weeks after Baxalta was spun out of Baxter’s BioScience business. The setting is the biopharmaceutical sector – the fastest-growing in the global pharmaceutical industry in 2014, when M&As reached a record $219.4 billion.

Published 17 Jan 2022

Reference 6690

Topic Strategy

Industry Pharmaceuticals

Region Global

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The case focuses on the financing of blockchain and its pros and cons. The use of security tokens, initial coin offerings (ICOs) and related issues in terms of financing costs, liquidity and governance are analysed.

Published 28 May 2021

Reference 6541

Topic Economics & Finance

Region Global

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The cases deals with the acquisition by Disney of the Murdoch group and the strategies employed by the firms in the media industry to manage disruption.

Published 28 Jun 2019

Reference 6480

Topic Economics & Finance

Industry Entertainment Media Production

Region North America

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This case describes the Tata Group’s governance and the role it played in overseeing 150 years of growth of the Tata empire of companies. The Tata Group is one of India’s premier and oldest industrial and services conglomerates in India. The Tata Trusts (charitable foundations) own two thirds of the Group; private investors own the rest of it.

Published 31 May 2019

Reference 6492

Topic Leadership & Organisations

Region Asia

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The case focuses on blockchain (and distributed ledger technology or DLT) – a ‘hot’ area of fintech – and on R3 as a fintech consortium that includes some of the world’s largest banks, financial institutions and regulators. R3 started out as a family office in 2014 and evolved into a fintech company focused on the application of distributed ledger technology (DLT).

Published 23 Jan 2019

Reference 6451

Topic Economics & Finance

Industry Computer Software Financial Services Banking

Region Asia

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