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Scott C. Whitaker on completing successful cross-border mergers and acquisitions: An interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Industry experience includes healthcare, financial services, telecommunications, gaming, hospitality, chemicals, oil & gas, industrial manufacturing, retail and consumer durables. Scott Whitaker is a Partner with Global PMI Partners and has been involved in dozens of mergers and acquisitions totaling nearly $100 billion in value.

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What They Didn’t Teach You at Business School about Negotiation

Great Leadership By Dan

He dabbled with partners in electric cars, batteries, cement, chemicals, and office machines. The creative teams he developed laid the foundations for today’s music, movie, and telecommunications industries. Fifty were in countries ranging from Argentina to Canada, from Japan, China, and India to Italy, Germany, and France.

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When Leadership Is Just Sucking It Up And Doing The Right Thing

Terry Starbucker

In order to strengthen our competitive abilities and ensure our future viability as a strong and growing telecommunications company leading the way in all the communities we proudly serve, we have determined the need to centralize all in-bound sales and service calls into two call centers.”.

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New Research: Where the Talent Wars Are Hottest

Harvard Business Review

The most active sectors in hiring will be materials and IT & telecommunications, with more companies planning to bring on employees and to add a greater percentage to their workforces. aerospace & defense, construction & engineering, industrial conglomerates, professional services, textiles); IT & Telecommunications (e.g.,

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Innovation Should Be a Top Priority for Boards. So Why Isn’t It?

Harvard Business Review

aerospace & defense, industrial conglomerates, textiles); IT & Telecommunications (e.g., internet software & services, semiconductors, wireless telecommunication services); and Materials (e.g., chemicals, metals & mining, paper & forest products).

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Why B2B Companies Struggle with Collaborative Innovation

Harvard Business Review

A telecommunications company recently launched an initiative with a business customer. This was the experience of the chemical company BASF and Daimler Buses. Here’s an example. The goal was to jointly reinvent the customer’s data management system. The two had teamed up to design the bus of the future.

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Why Boards Aren’t Dealing with Cyberthreats

Harvard Business Review

aerospace & defense, industrial conglomerates, textiles); IT & Telecommunications (e.g., internet software & services, semiconductors, wireless telecommunication services); and Materials (e.g., chemicals, metals & mining, paper & forest products). Inadequate processes.