Quote of the Month Comment on Microsoft’s $8.5 billion acquisition of Skype: “Certainly Microsoft will be buying a fast-growing, well-positioned global asset with an unbeatable brand. But that’s what eBay thought when it bought Skype in 2005 for $2.6...
Quote of the Month: “Integration is not just about cutting costs… I think the real integration is how do you energize the (newly combining) company and get the two companies to work together with one common goal, to put aside their ProLogis and AMB jerseys...
Quote of the Month: “Any dope with a checkbook can buy a company. It’s what you do afterward that matters.” Henry Silverman, CEO of Realogy Group, 2006 In the May Blog: In this edition we first look at several acquisitions that illustrate broad...
Will Your Proposed Acquisition Be Worth It? Trying to figure out if your proposed acquisition will be worth it? Clayton Christensen and his colleagues, Richard Alton, Curtis Rising and Andrew Waldeck, offer a framework for sorting out what they see is complete...
Towards a Dynamic Fusion Capabilities are often discussed in admiring terms, but rarely grappled with in a way that will make real differences in organizations. Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi of Booz & Company, have done exactly that in their new book, The...
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