MIT Sloan Management Review

August 17 | Table of Contents

The Secrets of Successful Acquisitions

By Koen H. Heimeriks, Stephen Gates and Maurizio Zollo

Managers who have been involved in mergers and acquisitions know the odds of a painless integration are low. Rarely, it seems, does combining two organizations go smoothly, at least in the short term.

All of which leads to an inevitable question: What do the successful acquirers do right?

Based on our study of the M&A activities of [...]

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