Microsoft, Ballmer and Nokia.
On the 8th of July 2015, Satya Nadella undid what is considered one of the biggest mistakes in Microsoft’s history; the acquisition of Nokia. The story starts a couple of years earlier when Steve Ballmer was CEO of Microsoft. Under his leadership, he steered the company in 2011 to negotiate with Nokia on a takeover bid, which was finalized in September of 2013. The Microsoft board fought against the deal but Ballmer (sometimes verbally abusing) disregarded their opinions and ¨forced¨ the board along to complete the deal. We would argue that Ballmer was overconfident in his ability to turn Nokia around, and underestimated the risk of not succeeding. Also, as Ballmer had worked with Microsoft so many years, he believed …show more content…
Even though the report isn’t that damaging to Tesla, it is important to takeaway from this that investors reacted extremely negatively. Tesla's share price fell 11% in intraday trading, from $227 to $202. While the share price slightly rebounded by the end of the day, it edged lower on the next day and is currently trading at $230/share. To clarify the reaction to this report and understand the broader implications of other negative news for Tesla, instead of looking toward a rational basis for Tesla’s valuation, it’s more instructive to search explanations from behavioral …show more content…
However, they chose not to reconsider their investments in SMT, even though by this time IT specialists engaged in the project began to leave due to its complexity and ambiguousness. It seems that managers showed aversion to a sure loss hoping to succeed despite the existing risk. Such reluctance to terminate a losing project resulted in huge lesions and process disruptions. Given a great deal of effort into the SAP implementation escalation of commitment continuously affected manager’s thinking. Thus, the Head office stated that the system was working and they planned to get back to its improvements later [2]. Obviously managers were also exposed to excessive optimism ignoring the possibility of
On the 8th of July 2015, Satya Nadella undid what is considered one of the biggest mistakes in Microsoft’s history; the acquisition of Nokia. The story starts a couple of years earlier when Steve Ballmer was CEO of Microsoft. Under his leadership, he steered the company in 2011 to negotiate with Nokia on a takeover bid, which was finalized in September of 2013. The Microsoft board fought against the deal but Ballmer (sometimes verbally abusing) disregarded their opinions and ¨forced¨ the board along to complete the deal. We would argue that Ballmer was overconfident in his ability to turn Nokia around, and underestimated the risk of not succeeding. Also, as Ballmer had worked with Microsoft so many years, he believed …show more content…
Even though the report isn’t that damaging to Tesla, it is important to takeaway from this that investors reacted extremely negatively. Tesla's share price fell 11% in intraday trading, from $227 to $202. While the share price slightly rebounded by the end of the day, it edged lower on the next day and is currently trading at $230/share. To clarify the reaction to this report and understand the broader implications of other negative news for Tesla, instead of looking toward a rational basis for Tesla’s valuation, it’s more instructive to search explanations from behavioral …show more content…
However, they chose not to reconsider their investments in SMT, even though by this time IT specialists engaged in the project began to leave due to its complexity and ambiguousness. It seems that managers showed aversion to a sure loss hoping to succeed despite the existing risk. Such reluctance to terminate a losing project resulted in huge lesions and process disruptions. Given a great deal of effort into the SAP implementation escalation of commitment continuously affected manager’s thinking. Thus, the Head office stated that the system was working and they planned to get back to its improvements later [2]. Obviously managers were also exposed to excessive optimism ignoring the possibility of