Customer Review: I don't think this is a bad collection of articles. However, its contents are no longer relevant today. The book opens with the announced merger of AOL and Time Warner, hailing it as a great development. We now know how spectacularly that deal collapsed. The article then continues with a discussion... more info
Customer Review: The merger and aqcuisitions book I've obtained via Amazone proved everything the review said. It's a comprehensive and very practical guideline and collection of checklists. i can recommend it to anyone entering or working in the M&A arena, Rene Manders
Customer Review: Overall, this is a good book where the M&A process is nicely laid out and with critical decisions clearly explained. The part on why you should go away from a deal is valuable as it is always forgotten in other M&A books. There are several weak areas nonetheless in this book. The link with... more info
Customer Review: Although extremely comprehensive, this book makes other casebooks read like NY Times bestsellers. I found the way material was broken down into sections bizarre in that instead of using traditional "umbrella-type" sections, they were so specific that it made it difficult to coherently synthesize the... more info
Customer Review: I found the explanations and attention to detail to be an important part of this work. Perhaps a lot of messes in the real world could be avoided if people paid attention to detail. I think the detailed information was quite valid
Customer Review: "The Great Merger Movement in American Business" is a fabulous monograph. It combines business history, legal history and oligopoly models to explain the sudden rise of industrial concentration in the 1890s. The basic idea is that firms with high fixed costs responded to the depression of 1893 by... more info
Customer Review: This book has loads of good information. A great overview of and explanation of the good and the bad. Havent read other books on buying but cant see many being any better. Not the complicated style of other books. Great resource to have and keep.
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