This book will provide the answers to the questions that senior level executives have about what are M&As and the steps involved. It provides basic guidelines and lessons for going through an M&A for the first time. It explains what the key events, processes, and issues that a buyer or seller must consider during a merger or acquisition. By using this book, executives can avoid costs and sometimes fatal mistakes and maximize the financial and operational value of the deal to their companies. Chapters include: (1) Terms and Phrases: Language of the Deal, (2) Explanation of Legal Structures and Terms, (3) Strategic Transactions: Before the Deal Starts, (4) Mergers and Acquisitions: Doing the Deal, (5) Equity Investments: Doing the Deal, (6) Sellers, (7) Buyers, (8) Appendix: Checklists and Forms, Reports and Presentations, Generic Valuation Exercise 

This book is my journey on the road to understanding how the successful strategists learned to think strategically. In this book, I offer a synthesis of findings from several years of qualitative research in pursuit of a single question: How do successful executives learn to think strategically? As part of an interpretive case study, I conducted in-depth interviews with nine successful executives in Japan, Poland, China, Germany, the United States, and Hong Kong to pursue this inquiry. I visited the executives in their work environments to see what their worlds were like, to ask questions, to listen, and to observe.

Справочник юного манагера или начинающего бизнесмена - первое что приходит в голову, когда пролистываешь эту, волей случая оказавшуюся в моих руках, книжку, ибо носит она исключительно практический характер и, следовательно, подойдет тем, кто уже обладает знаниями английского языка, начиная примерно с уровня pre-intermediate и выше.