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Genzyme and Relational Investors: Scienc...

Eades, Kenneth M.,...

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Genzyme and Relational Investors: Science and Business Collide?

Eades, Kenneth M.; Matos, Pedro; Green, Rick

F-1660 | Published February 12, 2011 | 25 pages Case

Collection: Darden School of Business

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The chairman and CEO of the Genzyme Corporation, one of the country's top five biotechnology firms, has received a phone call requesting a meeting with the cofounder and principal of a large activist investment fund that now has a 2.6% stake in his company. Before meeting with him, the CEO is aware that he needs a strategy for dealing with this "activist" investor with a track record of forcing out CEOs.

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