Mergers and Acquisitions: CEO Leadership and Board Dynamics

Mergers and Acquisitions: Discover why Mergers and Acquisitions Deals Fail and how Warren Buffett makes them work!

Created by: John Colley
Investment Banking | Business| Entrepreneurship | Finance

What Will I Learn?

• Move beyond the superficial: Why conventional explanations of failed acquisitions do not go far enough
• Business Momentum: Understand the Institutional Imperative and why it makes bad deals inevitable
• Incentives: Why CEO remuneration makes the problem worse
• Performance Measurement: Why Yard Sticks of Success are inappropriate and don't work
• Behavioural Economics: The real reasons CEOs make bad decisions
• Investment Banking Advice: Why you have to Wake Up to Wall Street
• How to Make Successful Acquisitions: How the Berkshire Hathaway System Works
• How to correctly measure acquisition success: Better Measures of Success you should use
• As a Gift of Knowledge to you, I have made the first 8 lectures free to help you

Requirements

• There are no pre-requisites or experience levels required for this course

Target audience

• Business Owners and CEOs who are considering making an acquisitions
• Investment Bankers and Advisers who guide their clients on Mergers and Acquisitions
• Finance Professionals seeking to move into Investment Banking and Finance careers
• Investors and Fund Managers who need to better understand the destructive impact of poor acquisition deals