Mergers & Matrimony

TO: HELEN HANSON
FROM: RICHARD WARREN
RE: ALMOST THROUGH!

It’s been an exhausting battle, but we’re almost done with the merger between Hanson Media and the Japanese powerhouse TAKA Corporation. And we couldn’t have done it without your business savvy, Helen. Your late husband, George, would be proud of all you’ve done to salvage the business for his kids.

I hear that you and the fierce head negotiator, Morito Taka, are getting on famously. I’m surprised that he’d even talk to someone from the ...