M&A
M&A is short for this.
What is Mergers and Acquisitions?
This is the term for the generic form of an already approved biologic medical product with the same standard of pharmaceutical quality, safety, and efficacy.
What is a biosimilar?
Thirty (30) of the previous 43 U.S. Presidents served in this branch of the military.
What is the U.S. Army?
These devices are made with silicon and are essential components of most electronic circuits.
What are semiconductors?
A method that relies on a collaborative team effort to improve performance by systematically removing waste and reducing variation.
What is Lean Six Sigma?
This percentage of M&A deals are ultimately successful in creating value (25%,50%,60%, or 75%).
What is 25%?
Beacon’s oldest healthcare client is based in this city, also the home of a Big10 university.
Where is New Brunswick, NJ?
This U.S. business employs the single largest number of employees of about 1.8 million people.
What is the Department of Defense?
A picture of sailboats from this competition hang on the wall behind Cliff’s desk.
What is the America’s Cup?
The contents of a jar that you may find on Jesse’s office desk.
What are pickles?
In 2000, AOL acquired this company in the largest M&A deal of all time - $165B.
What is Time Warner?
I got my new knee replacement outside of a hospital. This is the common acronym for the location of my surgery.
What is an ASC – Ambulatory Surgical Center?
This person is the first African American Secretary of Defense.
Who is Lloyd Austin?
This tech giant owns over 10,000 patents.
What is Microsoft?
The official mascot of the Arizona State university, also found on Jesse T-shirt.
What is a Pitchfork/Sun Devil?
Amazon acquired this company in 2018, giving them the ability to sell organic eggs from a storefront.
What is Whole Foods?
One of Beacon's VP's recently experienced this condition - associated with age-related far sightedness.
What is presbyopia?
This U.S. Federal Government building has no marble because it was built during WWII, and Italy, the source of the marble, was an enemy country.
What is the Pentagon?
Five employees from this tech giant have won the Nobel Peace Price.
What is IBM? - Leo Esaki (semiconductors); George Bednorz and Alex Bueller (superconductivity research); and Gerd Binning and Heinrich Rohrer (scanning tunneling microscope
The biggest (by revenue) renewable energy company in the world.
Who is Orsted A/S?
The approximate value of all M&A transactions globally in 2020.
What is $2.8 Trillion?
Three members of Beacon’s Health Care team have PhDs. These three areas were their focuses.
What is Type 2 Diabetes, Molecular Biology, and Economic Sociology?
This Lockheed Martin aircraft is the world’s longest continuously produced military aircraft. The plane first flew in 1954, only 51 years after the Wright Brothers first flight. Yet 67 years later, new airframes are still being manufactured.
What is the C-130?
This Fortune 100 tech giant was originally known as NM Electronics.
Who is Intel Corp? – founded Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore (NM)
The second coldest city in the US after Fairbanks, also where Ganesh went to school.
What is GrandForks, North Dakota?