on Pfizer’s strategy and 3rd quarter results

Link: http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/pfizer-net-plunges-38-pct-misses-street-3q-43215372

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via AP, to many outlets, including:

abc News
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/pfizer-net-plunges-38-pct-misses-street-3q-43215372

US News & World Report
http://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2016-11-01/pfizer-net-plunges-38-pct-misses-street-3q-forecasts

the UK’s Daily Mail
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-3893322/Pfizer-misses-Street-3Q-forecasts.html

Industry journal, Modern Healthcare
http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20161101/NEWS/161109998

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

more on AT&T – Time Warner, in The Financial Times

Link: https://www.ft.com/content/a797b616-9b34-11e6-8f9b-70e3cabccfae

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It is the biggest merger so far this year, and it could be the beginning of
systematic restructuring of two industries, but at some point we are going
to have said all that can be said three or four times.

Meanwhile:

https://www.ft.com/content/a797b616-9b34-11e6-8f9b-70e3cabccfae

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

on why Goldman Sachs is not getting a share of the fees from the biggest deal of the year (so far)

Link: http://fortune.com/2016/10/25/goldman-sachs-years-biggest-deal-time-warner-att/

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Goldman rarely is absent from a large transaction, but it’s not in the AT&T
– Time Warner deal. A Reuter’s story that is running in several places
(pick your favorite) explains why.

at Fortune magazine:
http://fortune.com/2016/10/25/goldman-sachs-years-biggest-deal-time-warner-att/

CNBC:
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/10/25/reuters-america-goldman-closer-to-murdoch-than-bugs-bunny-misses-years-biggest-deal.html

in the UK — The Daily Mail:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-3869526/Goldman-closer-Murdoch-Bugs-Bunny-misses-years-biggest-deal.html

Business Insider:
http://www.businessinsider.com/r-goldman-closer-to-murdoch-than-bugs-bunny-misses-years-biggest-deal-2016-10

Yahoo Finance:
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/goldman-closer-murdoch-bugs-bunny-050001408.html

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

on the lack of boardroom diversity, in Crain’s Detroit

Link: http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20161023/NEWS/161029933/activist-investor-urges-shakeup-of-taubman-board

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The total lack of diversity at the company in the story is incredible.+

http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20161023/NEWS/161029933/activist-investor-urges-shakeup-of-taubman-board

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