Finding a Partner

If mergers, acquisitions, and alliances are the means to renewed profitability in the European petrochemical industry, how should companies go about choosing partners A clear understanding of the value-creating potential of alternative deal options should underlie any decision - and narrow the strategic options. We estimate that, in many European chemical subsectors, no more than 20 percent of all the remaining possible deals are truly attractive. 

Petrochemical companies with a number of businesses should first evaluate deal options for each of them. Most costs are incurred at the business unit level, so that is where to look for value-creating synergies. Big mergers can be found at the corporate level but are less likely to create value. In one recent petrochemical industry merger, for example, synergies were found on the oil side but virtually none on the chemical side, because the partners businesses did not overlap. 

Deals at the business unit level have another advantage, too they reduce the potential for conflict over corporate control, a point especially relevant for small or medium-sized companies that fear losing decision-making power by merging with larger conglomerates. A deal with a rival closer to their own size may reduce this concern. 

Companies can assess the potential value of any deal by considering how much scope they have to capitalize on five important value drivers, which are described below. 

In other cases, joining forces may permit the partners to replace a number of sub-scale units with a single new world-scale one running at much lower cost. 

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Radicals are formed at random and migrate until they find a partner. 

What moves me most is when I hear yet another story of a child who has developed MCS and must deal with such huge limitations, problems and incomprehension at such a young age. A child is j ust starting his life, has to go to school, make a career, find a partner, start a family and so on. These normal life events are in some cases very difficult or even impossible for young MCS patients, which breaks my heart. When I learn of a new case of MCS my reaction is usually very emotional. I cry for these young canaries and how early they lost their freedom. 

Interestingly, in these reactions a stoichiometric amount of the olefin can trap the intermediate A2 as effectively as an excess amount. For instance, irradiation of a benzene solution of 34 with a 20-fold excess of vi-nyltrimethylsilane affords 35 (R = Me3Si) in 37% yield. Under identical conditions 34 reacts with a one molar equivalent of vinyltrimethylsilane to give 35 (R = Me3Si) in 41% yield. This indicates that the intermediate A has a lifetime long enough to allow it to find a partner in a dilute solution. 

With a sigh, Emma turned her attention back to the present. The bus came to a stop, and Emma climbed off with the rest of her Earth Studies classmates. Welcome to the Leinweber Nature Center, her teacher, Mrs. Bowes, announced. In a few minutes, a guide will give us a presentation about the area s native animals and habitat. After the presentation, you ll have a worksheet to complete while you explore the rest of the center. Now, I want everyone to find a partner. ... 

The stabilization of dioxygenated Co(il)- and Fe(n)-Blm on DNA suggests that the complex is not able to undergo the rapid cycles of dissociation and rebinding necessary to find a partner to carry out Reactions 4 or 14. Nor is a rapid sliding process available to facilitate these reactions. 

The dialogue needed to produce this result requires a classification scheme, or taxonomy, for defining partnership types. We propose one in Chapter 19. The taxonomy provides a beginning for translating strategic need into partner selection. It says, in effect, that the hole is round. Now find a partner that fits stay away from square partner candidates. ... 

In order to find a partner for a given potential, one has to calculate the superpotential, W r), then use the relation... 

SUSY offers us a new way of finding new analytically solvable potentials, either by finding a partner potential to one that already has an analytical solution, or finding under which condition a certain Hamiltonian can be factorized. As an example of the latter case, we will show that when the parameters satisfy certain relations, the Hooke s law model for a two-electron atom can be solved analytically. 

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