Assignment:
Utah Symphony and Utah Opera: A Merger Proposal
Thomas J Delong, David L. Ager
Harvard Business School
9-404-116
August 8, 2005
1. Does it make sense to combine these two organizations?
2. What are the synergies that both organizations have? Similarly, what are the new problems that a combined organization will face?
3. What are the major obstacles Anne Ewers will have to overcome to integrate the two organizations?
4. If you were writing a headline in the year 2015 regarding this merger, what would you write?