As you review your notes on the upcoming merger, you are interrupted by a call from one of the most influential members of your Board of Directors, Gordon Breen. "I'll be straight with you; I'm getting rather anxious here," Gordon says, after some perfunctory small talk. "I've been informed that you have offers from only two companies—Binary Frontiers Entertainment and Kaijusoft—and BFE's offering more money. Yet you've been mulling over the choice for some time. Maybe you thought you'd hold out for another offer, but I don't put much stock in stalling tactics. I strongly suggest you stop dithering and take the better offer. "Now of course, I don't speak for the entire Board, but I'm sure I'm not the only one who's scratching my head over this. If you don't act in the best interests of the shareholders, what good are you as a leader of this company