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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...
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Surviving the Kraft acquisition of Cadbury
Very nice to see that the Financial Times has yesterday reiterated the advice from this blog and Surviving M&A book about how to survive an acquisition. The news is now that Cadbury WILL now be...
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(More than) Ten Ways to Survive a Merger
The decision by Cadbury to accept Kraft’s offer has certainly stimulated interest in what’s happening to the employees there. BNET (the on-line business service from CBS) has published an article two...
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‘Management Today’ Article on Surviving an Acquisition
In light of the takeover of Cadbury by Kraft, I was asked to write an article in Management Today entitled ‘MT Expert’s Ten Top Tips: Surviving M&A’. Please do see the article, which is based on...
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Can you trust an acquiring company’s promises?
Would anyone answer the above question ‘yes’ after yesterday’s news? Kraft, less than three weeks after agreeing to the purchase of British chocolate company Cadbury, reversed it’s promise to keep...
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How to tell if your company is being acquired?
Are you asking yourself the question ‘Is my company being acquired?’ Should you be? In earlier blogs here and also in the Surviving Mergers book, I have said that it is critical to take a number of...
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Will there be more redundancies from mergers in 2010?
In my other blog (IntelligentMergers), I have predicted that the M&A market will be flat in 2010 from 2009, which was 40% lower than the peak year of 2007 (see my post entitled: ‘M&A Forecast...
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Writing a CV / Resume to get a job in M&A
I get asked all the time — especially by my business school students — about what they can do to get a job in M&A, whether with one of the advisors (such as Credit Suisse or the other big...
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If your CEO changes, prepare yourself!
As also discussed in the IntelligentMergers blog in an entry entitled ‘What comes next? Change your CEO and (bang!) you’re acquiring another company’, when a company changes it’s CEO, there’s a very...
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Be your own boss
In my book Surviving M&A: Make the most of your company being acquired and in earlier posts on this blog (see, for example, ‘What happens if you ARE fired or made redundant after a merger?’), I...
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