Why do so many M&A transactions fail? And what drives the success of those deals that don’t? Robert Bruner explains that M&A can be understood as a response by managers to forces of turbulence in their environment. Despite the material failure rates in M&A, managers pulling the trigger on key strategic decisions can make them work if they spend great care and rigor in the development of their M&A deals. Applied Mergers and Acquisitions Workbook provides a useful self-training study guide for those who want to review the drivers of M&A success and failure. Useful review questions, problems and answers are provided for both professionals and students. Readers will further their knowledge, build practical intuition, and learn the art and science of M&A using this self-study workbook.
Book Details:
- Author: Robert F. Bruner
- ISBN: 9780471395850
- Year Published: 2004
- Pages: 384
- BISAC: BUS027000, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS/Finance
About the Book and Topic:
Why do so many M&A transactions fail? And what drives the success of those deals that don’t? Robert Bruner explains that M&A can be understood as a response by managers to forces of turbulence in their environment. Despite the material failure rates in M&A, managers pulling the trigger on key strategic decisions can make them work if they spend great care and rigor in the development of their M&A deals. Applied Mergers and Acquisitions Workbook provides a useful self-training study guide for those who want to review the drivers of M&A success and failure. Useful review questions, problems and answers are provided for both professionals and students. Readers will further their knowledge, build practical intuition, and learn the art and science of M&A using this self-study workbook.
This workbook is a singular self-study executive education course on M&A by one of the foremost thinkers and educators in the field. It is built around the core text, Applied Mergers and Acquisitions, and collectively will become part of the learning franchise in M&A.
The Applied Mergers and Acquisitions Workbookis designed to test how well readers have understood the actual text. * Presents real-world M&A problems with actual solutions. * Includes in-depth questions to test M&A knowledge. * Offers a self-study course to review M&A decision-making tradeoffs, while discussing all the drivers of M&A success.
About the Author
ROBERT F. BRUNER is the Distinguished Professor of Business Administration at the Darden School of the University of Virginia and Executive Director of the Batten Institute. He directs the Darden School’s executive education course on mergers and acquisitions, and teaches the popular MBA elective on that topic. He is the author of over 250 case studies and a casebook, Case Studies in Finance: Managing for Corporate Value Creation, which has been adopted for use at over 200 schools. Bruner’s articles have been published in the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Accounting and Economics, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, the Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, and Financial Management. He has served as a consultant to over twenty corporations as well as to the U.S. Government, and prior to his academic career, worked as a commercial banker and venture capitalist. Bruner holds a BA from Yale University, and an MBA and DBA from Harvard University.