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Creating value through mergers, acquisitions and alliances
These tools will help you:
- Appreciate that most mergers, acquisitions and alliances (M&A) destroy value
- Understand how synergies drive value creation in M&A
- Walk away from the wrong deal
About these tools
Eat or be eaten.
This old adage may have pejorative undertones, but it does serve as a reminder of the dangers of corporate underperformance.
Mergers, acquisitions and alliances have been with us since the dawn of capitalism. They form an important, if on occasion controversial, component of the Anglo-Saxon business model.
M&A are frequently deemed to be successful when the merged entity survives, yet all too often they have, in reality, failed, as defined in the only truly ...
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