The Idea in Brief Many companies view acquisitions and alliances as interchangeable strategies for spurring growth. But each strategy has unique advantages and disadvantages. Firms that ignore those differences risk acquiring companies they should have collaborated with...
By Miriam Hill, The Philadelphia Inquirer Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 17--Walt Disney Co. is easy prey. The home of Snow White, Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck doesn't have many good defenses against acquirers, including Philadelphia's Comcast Corp.,...
Byline: Michael Hoare Companies with in-house mergers and acquisitions (M&A) experts have a 25% higher success rate from takeovers than companies without them, according to a new study from Wharton business school in the US.The report said staff dedicated to strategic alliances could...
Alliances are challenging, yet business-critical. Here are some tips for success. Alliances are more common today than in the past. They're also more central to the success of a business. Yet, over all firms and all industries, only 40 percent of alliances truly work. ...
Business Editors SAN MATEO, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--June 24, 2002 GreenPoint Mortgage was awarded the Wharton Infosys Business Transformation Award for best Initiative-led Transformation for North America on May 16, 2002, Dorado announced today. The University of Pennsylvania's Wharton Business School and Infosys Technologies jointly...
Business Editors/High Tech & Education Writers NEW YORK--BUSINESS WIRE--May 21, 2002 Capital One, Warner Home Video, GreenPoint Mortgage, NTT DoCoMo, National Stock Exchange of India and Schlumberger Among Winners Infosys (Nasdaq: INFY) and the Wharton School of the University...
The well-funded Asian carrier is seeking opportunities outside the island-state. Singapore Telecom SingTel is moving closer to its ambition of having a dominant pan-Asian presence, with a deal in the works for purchase of the 22.3% stake held by Dutch national operator KPN in Indonesia's...
Business/Technology Editors CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--BUSINESS WIRE--July 27, 2001 Summer issue 2001 of MIT Sloan Management Review (http://mitsloan.mit.edu/smr) reports on... Strategy: Innovation: Location Matters Michael E. Porter and Scott Stern Innovation has become the defining challenge for global competitiveness. To...
Business & Education Editors PHILADELPHIA--BUSINESS WIRE--June 18, 2001 The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania announced today the creation of the William and Phyllis Mack Center for Technological Innovation. As the umbrella organization for all of Wharton's technology management initiatives,...
Corporations have increasingly seen alliances as attractive vehicles through which they can grow and expand their scope, and the rate at which interfirm alliances have been formed in the last two decades has been unprecedented (Harrigan, 1986; Anderson, 1990). A notable characteristic of this growth has been...
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