Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2018

Chewy, for its part, gained a bulwark against established brick-and-mortar competitors, including those operating in one of retail’s bright spots: pet care services. How realistic is leadership’s vision for the acquisition? With asset prices at record levels, careful due diligence is more critical than ever.

Due Diligence 8

Due Diligence Company Horizontal Integration Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

Doing digital M&A right means upending the way most companies approach financing, due diligence, and merger integration. Next, you need to understand how digital M&A turns traditional due diligence on its head. So, what do you need to know to get up the learning curve? Let’s start with financing the deal.

Due Diligence 8

Due Diligence Company Learning Curve Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Culturally, the face-to-face meeting is still an important symbol of productivity. Four things are required: Do deeper due diligence. Find out how they made it work and double down on the due diligence. Look at leadership capabilities. Want to finish something? Sit around a table together and get it done.

Due Diligence 8

Due Diligence Diversity Video Leadership Styles 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

If you are a member of a leadership team facing a critical strategic decision, you have an obligation to address these biases before inaction leaves your business irrelevant. 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.

Strategic Planning 8

Strategic Planning Due Diligence Proposal Rogers 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

When a private equity firm adds a new company to its portfolio, analysts rigorously size up its financial, operational, and competitive condition. What’s more, the demand for rapid growth often comes with a push from investors to enter new markets or ramp up product innovation. In fact, management consultancy Bain & Co.

CEO 8

CEO Company Due Diligence Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

The platform allows the exchange of digital information, services, and products across the power grid, allowing much greater efficiencies industrywide. Change the dialogue in the senior leadership team to focus on the end-to-end customer experience. Balancing the short-term and long-term is a dynamic leadership challenge.

Short-term 8

Short-term How To Venture Capitalist CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In each iteration, we spent a lot of time thinking about what might make the best use of our existing product. In hindsight, this thinking turned out to be far less important than what we learned about leadership, control, and trust, which ultimately were reflected in how each of the businesses was created, capitalized, and staffed.

Chief Financial Officer 9

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Common pitfalls are a lack of cultural understanding between the integrating parties, poor integration leadership, and a focus on the wrong activity set or the wrong targets. The acquiring company wished to retain its operating approach and replicate it within the newly acquired business.

Process 8

Process McKinsey Due Diligence Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2011

Global leadership is much more complicated than leading people like you," says Mansour Javidan, the Director of the Global Mindset Institute at Thunderbird School of Global Management and author of " Making It Overseas." Fortunately, more people are doing their due diligence these days.

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Globalization Engineering Due Diligence Project 15