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...through recruiting and into business positions,” says Geraghty. He ticks off the names of recent alums and their jobs—Abhishek Gupta ’04 works with The Blackstone Group in their Mergers and Acquisition position; Brad Olson ’03 is with Bain Chicago. The list of prominent businesses unfurls like a red carpet, inviting and plush...
...Harvard’s academic hotshots sits in a spacious eleventh story office in William James Hall, where the south-facing windows offer a view of Cambridge and the Boston skyline that would make any Bain Capital exec green with envy...
...operations. The reality is that while small, incremental deals can be a key to success, very few megadeals ever deliver on their much hyped promise. On the contrary, 70% of these combinations fail to generate lasting shareholder value, according to Mastering the Merger, a new book by consulting firm Bain...
...Nokia, which missed the popularity of clamshell phones. Recognizing an impending technological shift is just part of the challenge; companies also have to guess right about when to embrace it. "It's like a pitch coming in--you have to decide if it's a fastball or curveball," says Bain director David Harding...
More than two-thirds of all mergers fail. Yet companies rarely grow without deals. How does a CEO confront this conundrum? David Harding and Sam Rovit, veteran management consultants at Bain & Co., walk readers through the daunting world of M&A inMastering the Merger: Four Critical Decisions That Make or Break the Deal (Harvard Business School Press). Through detailed case studies, the pair show that the more successful acquirers, like Clear Channel, tend to thrive through many small deals rather than the big one. The bottom line: no matter how far along you are in the process, always...