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Mergers and Acquisitions Viewpoints

Viewpoints

QFINANCE viewpoints provide you with the distilled thoughts of finance leaders and experts, outlining their current thinking on the crucial issues and challenges facing finance managers, entrepreneurs and business executives. The contributions are drawn from an array of practitioners and thinkers from the world of finance and business.

  • Mergers Beyond the Numbers: How CFOs Can Shine
    by James E. Schrager
    James E. Schrager is clinical professor of entrepreneurship and strategy at the University of Chicago and has numerous awards for his teaching. He is an active strategy adviser to companies small and large. His articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal and the Chicago Tribune among others, and he is frequently quoted in the press. He is founding and current editor of the Journal of Private Equity, published by Institutional Investors. Dr...
  • Target Practice—Acquisitions
    by Sir John Stuttard
    This article was first published in Quantum magazine.Acquisitions, we know from experience, take years to bed down. When the bombshell hits, they take up significant executive time as the managers of the acquirer determine new management structures and managerial positions, as well as combining business practices and systems.For the managers of the acquired, there is an inevitable feeling that one is no longer in control—and certainly no longer...
  • The CFO and the Sustainable Corporation
    by Ravi Nedungadi
    Ravi Nedungadi, President and group CFO of United Breweries Group, has steered the India-based brewing and aviation group through a number of major acquisitions. He is proud to have resisted the hard-sell tactics from investment bankers to get into exotic derivatives before their valuations tumbled. He was the youngest student ever to qualify in the final of the chartered accountancy exam at the age of 20. Early positions at industrial companies...

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