Call it a sweet deal for a sweet ride.

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Yammer Chief Executive David Sacks said in a recent conference call that the company did the deal because it was a great fit with Microsoft.

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Call it osmosis, but I learned a great deal just by surrounding myself with civic-minded thought leaders like Mary Anne Petrillo, Senior Marketing Manager Corporate Responsibility at Cisco, who taught me about using story-telling to amplify social impact.

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The two were close and Mr. Jobs trusted Mr. Cue to negotiate partnerships, placing a phone call to a media chief only when it was required to seal the deal.

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It could be a cash injection, a sponsorship deal or they may call into question the team's training facilities and bonuses.

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Bristol-Myers Chief Executive James Cornelius said on a conference call with reporters that the deal made more sense now than it would have two years ago.

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"It's a one-shot deal, " Marrone said during a conference call with Bills season-ticket holders last week.

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Matt Snowling, an analyst at Friedman Billings Ramsey, said the announcement was not entirely unexpected, as the company said it was very close in tying up a deal during last week's earnings call, but removes a fairly significant overhang the company had worried about.

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To put it another way, what bankers call "the execution risk" in the deal looks less in a Co-op takeover than for an NBNK takeover.

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Bank of America could sweeten its bid, but some analysts who were already opposed to the deal think it should build its own branches there without a merger, what bankers call a "de novo" strategy.

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