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Improving The M&A Success Rate: Identity May Be The Key, Carol M. Sanchez, Mahendra Joshi, Paul Mudde
Improving The M&A Success Rate: Identity May Be The Key, Carol M. Sanchez, Mahendra Joshi, Paul Mudde
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Every year companies spend over $4 trillion on mergers and acquisitions (M&As) in spite of the fact that between 70% to 90% of these M&As fail. Both practitioners and scholars are puzzled by these intriguing statistic and have tried to identify the causes of M&A failures. Factors such as inaccurate assessment of financial and operational synergies, lack of clarity in the execution of the integration process, negotiation errors, lack of backup plans, and cultural issues are only a few of the long list of reasons that may lead to such high rate of failure. Evidently, some of these factors have …
An Interview With Ian Browde Director Of Strategy And Business Development, Enterprise Solutions Division, Nokia, Inc., Carol M. Sanchez
An Interview With Ian Browde Director Of Strategy And Business Development, Enterprise Solutions Division, Nokia, Inc., Carol M. Sanchez
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Interviewer, Carol Sánchez (CS), Associate Professor, Seidman College of Business, Grand Valley State University. Interviewee, Ian Browde (IB), Director of Strategy and Business Development, Enterprise Solutions Division, Nokia, Inc.
How To Handle The Threat Of Catastrophe, Carol M. Sanchez, Stephen R. Goldberg
How To Handle The Threat Of Catastrophe, Carol M. Sanchez, Stephen R. Goldberg
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One of the principal jobs of chief executives is to minimize risk and vulnerability to catastrophic events. Analyzing risk has become more complex since September 11, 2001. In addition to terrorism, other catastrophes can change the course of life as we know it including cyber crime, biological attacks, and the spread of diseases such as SARS. Companies must realign corporate priorities and put the security issue at the forefront, as many companies have done since the 9/11 attacks. Risk management has dealt traditionally with two types of events: known risk and unknown risk. Known risks are events you know exist, …