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2010 in review: Surviving Mergers Blog
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and they provided me with this high level summary of its overall blog health (this is their data and words, not mine, but I thought it might be interesting to the regular readers of this blog): The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )YouTube Video on Surviving an Acquisition
Cass Business School, where I teach a course on Mergers and Acquisitions, has recorded a video interview on the Surviving M&A: Make the most of your company being acquired book and also the recent research on this topic. The YouTube video also includes some suggestions for reducing the chance of being made redundant if your [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Book Review: ‘Surviving Mergers’ from The Times, 2 September 2009
There was an excellent summary and review by Emily Ford of the Surviving Mergers: Make the most of your company being acquired book in the 2 September 2009 issue of The Times and also available on-line here. She entitled her review ‘In a merger, survival can depend on you’, which is certainly true, yet often [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )‘When it comes to mergers, just look after No 1′ (Times)
An article in the Times this morning (19 August 2009) noted from the Surviving Mergers book the importance of making sure that you don’t depend too much on your boss to take care of you when your company is acquired or even if your firm is the larger one taking over another company. Dominic Walsh [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Welcome to ‘Surviving M&A’
This blog is a companion to a forthcoming book to be published by John Wiley & Sons in July 2009: ‘Surviving M&A: Make the most of your company being acquired’. You can see it on the Wiley website here. It’s already available for pre-order on Amazon.co.uk in the UK and can be seen on Amazon.com in [...]
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