TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bruner,Robert F.
AU  - Levitt,Arthur
TI  - Deals from Hell: M&A Lessons That Rise Above the Ashes
SN  - 9780471737186
U1  - 658.162 BRU 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Hoboken
PB  - John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
KW  - Business
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Description based upon print version of record; EBL RENTAL; Deals from Hell: M&A Lessons that Rise Above the Ashes; Contents; Foreword by Arthur Levitt, Jr.; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Introduction; OVERVIEW OF THE BOOK; OVERVIEW OF THE FINDINGS; CONCLUSION: ANTICIPATING M&A FAILURE CAN ENHANCE SUCCESS; NOTES; Part I: The Foundations of M&A Failure; Chapter 2: Where M&A Pays and Where It Strays: A Survey of Research; Chapter 3: Profiling the Outlying M&A Deals; Chapter 4: Real Disasters and M&A Failure; Part II: Case Studies of M&A Failure; Chapter 5: February 1968: Merger of the Pennsylvania and New York Central Railroads; Chapter 6: December 1986: The Leveraged Buyout of Revco Drug StoresChapter 7: September 1989: The Acquisition of Columbia Pictures by Sony Corporation; Chapter 8: September 1991: The Acquisition of NCR Corporation by AT&T Corporation; Chapter 9: December 1993: Renault's Proposed Merger with Volvo; Chapter 10: December 1994: The Acquisition of Snapple by Quaker Oats; Chapter 11: May 1999: Mattel's Acquisition of The Learning Company; Chapter 12: January 2001: Merger of AOL and Time Warner; Chapter 13: December 2001: Dynegy's Proposed Merger with Enron; Chapter 14: January 2002: Acquisition Program of Tyco InternationalPart III: Avoiding the Deal from Hell; Chapter 15: Conclusions and Implications; Chapter 16: Memo to the CEO: A Coda on Growth; References; About the Author; Index
N2  - A detailed look at the worst M&A deals ever and the lessons learned from them. It's common knowledge that about half of all merger and acquisition (M&A) transactions destroy value for the buyer's shareholders, and about three-quarters fall short of the expectations prevailing at the time the deal is announced. In Deals from Hell, Robert Bruner, one of the foremost thinkers and educators in this field, uncovers the real reasons for these mishaps by taking a closer look at twelve specific instances of M&A failure. Through these real-world examples, he shows readers what went wrong and why, and c
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