on Bloomberg Radio, about the Pfizer – Medivation deal

Link: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/2016-08-22/the-bloomberg-advantage-gordon-on-pfizer-deal-for-medivation

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Pfizer pays $14 billion to acquire an entrepreneurial company with a
successful cancer product that the company took all the way to market.

I am congested thanks to allergies.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/2016-08-22/the-bloomberg-advantage-gordon-on-pfizer-deal-for-medivation

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Erik Gordon
Ross School of Business
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan

Valeant – the price-raising pharma co

Link: http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/solid-outlook-valeant-promised-fire-shares-41230242

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Via AP, at several places, including:

abc News:

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/solid-outlook-valeant-promised-fire-shares-41230242

In the UK at The Daily Mail:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-3731899/Valeants-rosy-forecast-promised-changes-fire-shares.html

Erik Gordon
Ross School of Business
University of Michigan

Wal-Mart Acquires Startup Jet.Com For $3.3 Billion To Challenge Amazon : NPR

Link: http://www.npr.org/2016/08/08/489218036/wal-mart-acquires-jet-com-for-3-3-billion-to-challenge-amazon

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A quick couple of comments on NPR’s “All Things Considered” about why Wal-Mart paid $3.3bn for e-commerce startup, Jet.com (nice exit for the early-stage investors).

http://www.npr.org/2016/08/08/489218036/wal-mart-acquires-jet-com-for-3-3-billion-to-challenge-amazon

What didn’t make it through the editing: Jet.com has good algorithms and software for real-time price management, and a comment about a startup having something the industry’s biggest company hadn’t been able to produce internally.

Erik Gordon
Ross School of Business
University of Michigan

in The New York Times and elsewhere, on politicians

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2016/08/05/business/05reuters-usa-election-trump-economy.html?src=busln

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On the tradition of politicians lambasting an industry but taking money
from industry leaders. Reuters contacted me, and I have no idea why.
Politics is not one of my research areas.

The original quote was “It is a hallowed bipartisan campaign tradition.”
The word “bipartisan” disappeared somewhere. Bipartisanship seems to have
disappeared from everything.

The New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2016/08/05/business/05reuters-usa-election-trump-economy.html?src=busln

Reuters:

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-trump-economy-idUSKCN10G2IO

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Erik Gordon
Ross School of Business
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan

On the BBC talking about the Tesla – Solar City deal

Link: http://ic.457154d0.02c468.aod-pod-ww-live.bbcfmt.vo.llnwi.net/mpg_mp3_vlow/2c97899356375d77015648cfb18a2da6–audio–BM-PD-2-AUG-16_mpg_mp3_vlow.mp3?s=1470079570&e=1470122770&h=c1b928b1c9e2b8a19f5b4a18ca685e58

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Here is a link to the download. Unfortunately, it is a one-hour show. I appear at about 17:30 into it.

http://ic.457154d0.02c468.aod-pod-ww-live.bbcfmt.vo.llnwi.net/mpg_mp3_vlow/2c97899356375d77015648cfb18a2da6–audio–BM-PD-2-AUG-16_mpg_mp3_vlow.mp3?s=1470079570&e=1470122770&h=c1b928b1c9e2b8a19f5b4a18ca685e58

Erik Gordon
Ross School of Business
University of Michigan