Alan MacCharles spent 27 years at Deloitte. He focuses on pre-deal advisory issues, and in particular joint venture formation. Working with senior executives and boards, he has helped his Fortune 500 clients complete many large, international joint ventures. Prior to concentrating on joint ventures, Alan worked in pre-deal M&A advisory where he built a team of 100 from scratch in China. The combination of working internationally, understanding the M&A environment and focusing on joint ventures has created unique perspectives on the challenges of joint venturing – which is shared in the book along with a range of tools, techniques (and stories!).
Alan has been published or quoted in major news publications including the Financial Times, the South China Morning Post, Fortune, Nature, China Daily, etc. He is an active speaker on the topics of strategy, joint ventures, and globalization. He has taught courses and classes at a number of universities including Aberdeen (UK), Cranfield (UK), Duke (US), Webster (US) and Western (Canada).
Alan is continuing to work with Fortune 500 consulting clients and is developing Duke-Kunshan University’s executive education program. He received his Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA) from Cranfield University School of Management, his MBA from London Business School and his BA from the University of Waterloo. He lives ...
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month, and much more.
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.
Julian F.
Head of Cybersecurity
I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.
Addison B.
Field Engineer
I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.
Amir M.
Data Platform Tech Lead
I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.
