Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2014

A normal acquisition process seeks to ensure something basic: a strategic rationale for a deal, supported by a thoughtful selection process, with known risks identified by a short, intense due diligence. What this requires is doing some integration due diligence as part of the M&A process.

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Due Diligence Company Stakeholder Analysis Retail 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Business needs to play a more powerful role in supporting responsible practices throughout every aspect of their operations. After all, those that find themselves embroiled in bribery scandals, for example, face a host of consequences, including business disruption, steep financial and legal costs, and harm to their brand and reputation.

Company 8

Company Compliance Ethics Globalization 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2023

When performed properly by a CRA committed to running FCRA-compliant reports, background checks can be a key part of your due diligence as an employer and help you avoid negligent hiring lawsuits. It can affect employee morale, customer relations, brand reputation and growth.

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Due Diligence Reputation Compliance Tools 123

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

The company quickly adjusted its operational definition of “loyalty” to explicitly embrace and reward its “digital evangelicals” — customers who had enough of a virtual presence to be influencers. For example, brand managers and advertising agencies alike increasingly make sentiment analysis part of how they assess public perceptions.

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Due Diligence KPI Loyalty Information Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

If you have assessed the risk of your strategic options in terms of brand risk, operational risk, market risk, and so on, do the same for the current strategy. It’s now common practice to manage risk with heightened awareness, disciplined processes, and due diligence.

Strategic Planning 8

Strategic Planning Due Diligence Proposal Rogers 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

And alongside the country’s bad debt (some estimates say it is $40 billion ), sanctions were commonly evaded through money laundering , which discouraged foreign banks from operating locally. Luxury hotel brand Melia is joining Accor and Rotana to open the country’s first international five-star hotel, the Gran Melia Ghoo.

Tourism 8

Tourism Banking Due Diligence Hotels 8

You're Not the Boss of Me

JULY 13, 2009

In other words we operate on the principle that equity means treating everyone in the same way. Others do due diligence to the review and have meaningful conversations around peformance, expectations, and the like. Announces Social Media, Branding & Diversity Strategies" by @ bizshrink.

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Performance Review Review PR Blanchard 40

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Sometimes that requires creating a separate operating structure. ” Instead, the labs are measured on factors like the potential of their ideas to change shopping behaviors in positive ways, and to burnish the Lowe’s brand. Get external validation. Reward decision-makers who back winners.

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Venture Capitalist Company Due Diligence Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

healthcare organizations like JHM tend to enter into types of partnerships that don’t require them to operate in a substantially new way such as with other large domestic healthcare institutions, or with local hospitals. They must: Seek out novel relationships and challenges. academic medical centers. Maintain unusual expertise.

Health Care 8

Health Care Agility Due Diligence Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In November 2003, after due diligence, we announced our agreement to purchase 3721 for $120 million. By mid-2004, however, the operation was mired in conflict over control and differences in management style. In the media and internet industries, it turns out to be very important when operating in China.

Chief Financial Officer 8

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

Things are never quite the way the due diligence report claimed. So, success doesn't always come to the brands with the best plans, but to the ones able to understand and respond to surprises. Many articles dissect the keys to successful operations and projecting future growth levers in China. Enter with humility.

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Due Diligence Brand Long-term Marketing 15

Strategy Driven

MARCH 28, 2016

It took years for Apple to gain traction despite offering what critics consider to be a superior operating system. It began as a small direct sales operation, with no plan for national distribution. Buyers have to do their due diligence, understand integration issues, get sign-off, have lawyers approve the deal, and so on.

Productivity 50

Productivity Products Marketing Strategy Budgeting 50

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

If the auguries of "strategic due diligence" suggest a favorable outcome and bankers are willing to lend lots to help finance the deal, the PE masters of the universe acquire the property and put in place a "performance improvement plan" to make their new asset more profitable. the management consultancy.

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Due Diligence Incentives Hedge Collins 12