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Title: Harvard Business Review on Mergers & Acquisitions by Robert J. Aiello, Michael D. Watkins, Robert G. Eccles, Alfred Rappaport, Dennis C. Carey ISBN: 1-57851-555-6 Publisher: Harvard Business School Press Pub. Date: May, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Next best thing . . .
Comment: . . . to hanging around with a bunch of practicioners swapping war stories and advise/wisedom/opinion. As the other reviewer said, the advise is at times contradictory, which is exactly what you get from talking to the professionals who do this all the time. There are some thing which everyone agrees on, and much of the rest is personal style.
Rating: 3
Summary: Good insights - lacks continuity - falls short
Comment: This book has a a few very informative articles/chapters. It virtually covers the entire M&A continuum from deal strategy through post merger integration. It has a fatal flaw however due to its format and that is a lack of consistency from one section to the next. By jumping from one author to another, the reader is subjected to guidance that is often contradicted or not considered a few chapters later by another author. That is why I prefer books offering guidance on the subject from a thoughtleader or practitioner who can walk me through the entire process from beginning to end. I am comforted knowing I am not being plied with theory that will be refuted 30 pages later. The book does include some very learned insights from previous authors of HBR articles, which most of us have read before but fails to include others such as Drs. Mark Feldman, Pat Gaughin, David Greenspan, Mark Clemente and Jac Fitz-Enz who are some of the finest minds and true heavyweights in the fields of culture, process, organizational development, and integration. I know because- as a Harvard alumna and corporate strategist for 20 years - I have worked as an employee alongside some of these M&A pioneers at such firms as AT&T, Lucent, IBM, and Citibank watching them give birth to the M&A scriptures. Each has penned their guidance in other less lofty titles which take the reader the whole way through the M&A experience while sharing successes, failures, theory, and case studies. This book is impressive to put on one's shelf and it does indeed have some very practical applications for today's corporate combinations. Yet the comprehensive guidance offered by these other authors eclipses the magazine-like compilation contained herein. It sorely misses their contributions.
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Title: The Complete Guide to Mergers and Acquisitions : Process Tools to Support M&A Integration at Every Level by Timothy J. Galpin, Mark Herndon ISBN: 0787947865 Publisher: Jossey-Bass Pub. Date: 25 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $46.00 |
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Title: The Art of M&A: A Merger Acquisition Buyout Guide by Stanley Foster Reed, Alexandra Reed Lajoux ISBN: 0070526605 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Trade Pub. Date: 31 December, 1998 List Price(USD): $125.00 |
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Title: The Art of M&A Due Diligence by Alexandra Reed Lajoux, Charles M. Elson ISBN: 0786311509 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Trade Pub. Date: 10 July, 2000 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: Winning at Mergers and Acquisitions : The Guide to Market Focused Planning and Integration by Mark N. Clemente, David S. Greenspan ISBN: 047119056X Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 09 March, 1998 List Price(USD): $69.95 |
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Title: Mergers, Acquisitions, and Corporate Restructurings, 3rd Edition by Patrick A. Gaughan ISBN: 0471121967 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 14 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $75.00 |
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