Mergers & Acquisitions

Catalog description

This course is designed to take an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the problems of formulating and implementing successful acquisition strategies. Our major objectives are (1) to enable you to act as a senior advisor to your CEO regarding strategic M&A and shareholder value issues your division or company might confront and (2) to assist you in becoming an informed consumer of just about anything written on M&A success (including pitches by professional services providers). We will introduce a framework for thinking about acquisitions as a strategic investment where the bottom line is superior shareholder performance. The course will approach acquisitions as a multi-step strategic and organizational process drawing from the fields of strategy, negotiations, finance and organizational behavior.