Corporate Strategy IG

Acquisitions of Founder Led Firms- Risks and Sources of Value

by Shyam Kumar Nearly 11% of large public firms in the United States are led by CEOs who are also their original founders. Give the sizeable proportion, not surprisingly, firms…

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Upgrading Without Formal Integration in M&A: The Role of Social Integration

by Rui Torres de Oliveira  Emerging markets firms are increasingly looking for opportunities in developed economies that frequently result in acquisitions.  The common wisdom sees these foreign acquisitions in developed…

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The Corporate Parenting Advantage, Revisited

By Emilie R. Feldman GE, Alphabet, Siemens, Facebook, Honeywell, Amazon, LVMH, Apple, and 3M. What do these companies have in common? All of them are modern-day “corporate parents” that own…

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Strategic Responses to Crisis

A Virtual Special Issue edited by Matthias Wenzel, Sarah Stanske, and Marvin Lieberman Currently, the pandemic crisis is affecting the lives of people and organizations around the world. As the…

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Research Chatter 6: Experimental Capitalism

by Charlie Williams   In this episode we discuss Steven Klepper’s new book, Experimental Capitalism. The book synthesizes Klepper’s wide-ranging industry studies to examine the origins and impact of US…

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