Less than a month after the completion of the merger between the Bank of New York and Mellon Financial, leaders of the two companies realized that the unification plan their maintenance of a business - and realizing $ 180 million in annual cost savings, which they promised to Wall Street - were fraught with risk. Senior executives need to assess the seriousness of the risks and to identify alternative ways of integrating the two companies, while maintaining the technology, process and clear a significant portion of the financial transactions in the world. [Continues with "B" and "C" cases.] "Hide
by Ryan D. Taliaferro, Clayton Rose, David Lane Source: Harvard Business School 26 pages. Publication Date: October 27, 2009. Prod. #: 210016-PDF-ENG