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Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco
Bryan Burrough , and John Helyar
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Barbarians at the Gate has been called one of the most influential business books of all time -- the definitive account of the largest takeover in Wall Street history. Bryan Burrough and John Helyar's gripping account of the frenzy that overtook Wall Street in October and November of 1988 is the story of deal makers and publicity flaks, of strategy meetings and society dinners, of boardrooms and bedrooms -- giving us not only a detailed look at how financial operations at the highest levels are conducted but also a richly textured social history of wealth at the twilight of the Reagan era.
Barbarians at the Gate -- a business narrative classic -- is must reading for everyone interested in the way today's world really works.
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With more than 500,000 copies sold, Barbarians at the Gate is the definitive account of the largest takeover in Wall Street history: the frenzy of strategy meetings and society dinners, of boardrooms and bedrooms -- giving us the view from the top of the financial ladder to the social history of wealth at the twilight of the Reagan era.
Over six months on the New York Times bestseller list, Barbarians at the Gate is the definitive account of the largest takeover in Wall Street history. Bryan Burrough and John Helyar's gripping record of the frenzy that overtook Wall Street in October and November of 1988 is the story of deal makers and pulicity flaks, of strategy meetings and society dinners, of boardrooms and bedrooms, giving us not only an unprecedentedly detailed look at how financial operations at the highest levels are conducted but also a richly textured social history of wealth at the twilight of the Reagan era. As compelling as a novel, Barbarians at the Gate is must reading for everyone interested in the way today's world really works.
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Leveraged craziness.......2007-05-03
This book provides a dramatic and well told lesson about the dangers of greed and how it infected the business world in the late 80's. As every big player in the financial world jumped at the chance to try to take over one of America's largest and most respected companies, RJR Nabisco, it seemed that everyone lost sight of the target and simply wanted to be part of the transaction even if that meant ignoring their morals and playing fast and loose with the financials of the deal. This book is very well written--it reads like a novel and is simple enough to be understood by someone with no LBO experiences--and insightful. I would highly recommend it to anyone interested in business or the historic aspects of the "greed is good" era.
Great history lesson, too much "truthiness".......2007-03-01
This is a great history lesson about what for nearly twenty years was been largest private equity transaction in terms of a nominal value(from an equity perspective). It describes many of the events & facts, background on key players & the industry, and let's a reader understand the motivating factors that allow such a transaction to take place.
That said, the WSJ writers do not do justice to their profession with this work and it became from a documentary of events to a story. Much of the information of the on-goings of the transaction was provided by Dick Beattie, a Sullivan & Cromwell attorney (which represented Lehman) who had a strong personal relationship with Kravis and Roberts. The writers took his word as fact and the book became an avenue for Kravis to publicly insult and humiliate his archnemesis Ted Forstmann, former mentor Jerome Kohlberg, Lehman rival Peter Cohen, among others.
Add to this the avoidance of facts, such as how KKR quietly removed covenants from its LP agreements limiting the percentage of fund capital that can be deployed for any single transactions and the near zero return on investment that RJR Nabisco provided over one the largest equity market increases and a reader must begin to question why there isn't an addendum quantifying this tremendous mistake on KKR's part.
This book would have been rated a five had the authors focused on the facts.
Great history lesson, too much "truthiness".......2007-03-01
This is a great history lesson about what for nearly twenty years was been largest private equity transaction in terms of a nominal value(from an equity perspective). It describes many of the events & facts, background on key players & the industry, and let's a reader understand the motivating factors that allow such a transaction to take place.
That said, the WSJ writers do not do justice to their profession with this work and it became from a documentary of events to a story. Much of the information of the on-goings of the transaction was provided by Dick Beattie, a Sullivan & Cromwell attorney (which represented Lehman) who had a strong personal relationship with Kravis and Roberts. The writers took his word as fact and the book became an avenue for Kravis to publicly insult and humiliate his archnemesis Ted Forstmann, former mentor Jerome Kohlberg, Lehman rival Peter Cohen, among others.
Add to this the avoidance of facts, such as how KKR quietly removed covenants from its LP agreements limiting the percentage of fund capital that can be deployed for any single transactions and the near zero return on investment that RJR Nabisco provided over one the largest equity market increases and a reader must begin to question why there isn't an addendum quantifying this tremendous mistake on KKR's part.
This book would have been rated a five had the authors focused on the facts.
"A few million dollars are lost in the sands of time.".......2007-02-15
...-F. Ross Johnson, President & Chief Executive, RJR Nabisco
That phrase dots Burrough and Helyar's work - mentioned several times throughout the course of the book- and encapsulates the kind of colorful nonfictional story-telling that's at it's best here. The authors do a masterful job of telling a story about what was the biggest business deal in history and the complexity of the big personalities, big egos, big fees and big everything that encompassed it. From Forstman Little's Crusade Against Junk Bonds (caps intended), to First Boston's out-of-nowhere bid that inevitably set up the KKR win, this book is filled with an abyss of unputdownable plots and subplots that leaves one edu-tained from start to finish.
One of the best things about this book is how effectually the authors try to get inside the heads of the players and mini-players in a manner that adds both color to the story telling and insight into the deal. Like this passage:
"Around eleven o'clock they were joined by Matthew Rosen, the team's thirty-six-year-old tax counsel. Rosen was a lawyer from the 'Thirtysome-thing' crowd: Italian suits, tassled loafers, an office crammed with modern-art [Kandisky likenesses I hear my mind wondering as a reader?], the kind of early 1970s rabble-rouser embarrassed to tell his Swarthmore class reunion he now made millions sniffing out tax loopholes for corporate takeovers".
Some educational takeaways include the role of junk bonds, the intricacies as well as benefits/costs of LBOs with the help of management (i.e. friendly) vs. hostile takeovers, moral hazard/conflicts of interest issues involving banks and financial advisors, the crucial role of good valuation work and thorough due diligence, managing public relations, deal confidentiality, managing Board of Directors relations, information security and bid strategy. Will one be ready to enact one's first billion dollar LBO after completing this book? Not yet. I would Rick Rikerten's Book "Buyout: The Insider's Guide to Buying Your Own Company" if you are looking to gain practical insight on more compact deals for that.
A book I came across entitled, "The New Financial Capitalists: Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and the Creation of Corporate Value" by George Baker and George Davis Smith would also complement the reading of Burrough's and Helyar's book quite well. The latter is a bit more academic than Barbarians At The Gate but it's often both fun and educational to look at some of the same topic matter from different angles.
As far as the history making story emboldened on every page of this book, as the authors say "You couldn't make this stuff up."
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Chronicle of a classic business story.......2007-01-05
If you love big business on Wall Street, you'll love this book! Barbarians at the Gate is a must-read story of the most spectacular private equity buyout in history. It details the rise of two great American companies: RJ Reynolds tobacco, and Nabisco. The story develops to encompass the rise of KKR, Wall Street's most powerful private equity firm, and how a clash of egos sent Wall Street's most cunning investment firms into a battle for ownership of RJR Nabisco.
While this book covers a nonfictional piece of Wall Street history, it by no means reads like a history textbook. Like a good novel, focus on the personalities of major players like Ross Johnson brings a human element to the story. What makes the book entertaining is how the authors have pieced together their interactions; humor and interesting dialog keep you reading. Also nicely written is how the parallel companies and characters clash together into the LBO climax.
To me the greatest accomplishment of this book is the level of detail that Bryan Burrough and John Helyar have recreated. No part of this book is fabricated or enhanced for enjoyment; every page is based on information obtained by personal interviews with the actual people involved in the deals. It's a journalistic masterpiece.
This is a great book for anyone interested in the investment banking field. In particular, business students will benefit the most. The conflicts of interest involved in this takeover provide good thoughts on ethics and business decisions. The impact of 1980s figures that shaped Wall Street today such as Shearson-Lehman or Michael Milken are evident. Barbarians at the Gate puts you in the boardroom with the executives behind the deals.
The big picture: Barbarians is superbly written from page 1 to the end of the epilogue. Read it because you will not only be well informed, but entertained.
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Mergers, Acquisitions, and Other Restructuring Activities (Academic Press Advanced Finance Series)
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Dr. Donald DePamphilis explains the real-world of mergers, acquisitions, and restructuring based on his academic knowledge and personal experiences with over 30 such deals himself. The 77 case studies span every industry and countries and regions worldwide show how deals are done rather than just the theory behind them, including cross-border transactions. The interactive CD is unique in enabling the user to download and customize content. It includes an Excel-based LBO model and an M&A Structuring and Valuation Model in which readers can insert their own data and modify the model to structure and value their own deals. New additions to the third edition: 17 new cases, with all 77 cases updated, Glossary, real options applications, projecting growth rates. Student Study Guide on CD contains practice problems/solutions, powerpoint slides outlining main points of each chapter, and selected case study solutions. An extensive on-line instructors manual contains powerpoint slides for lectures following each chapter, detailed syllabi for using the book for both undergraduate and graduate-level courses, and an exhaustive test bank with over 750 questions and answers (including true/false, multiple choice, essay questions, and computational problems).
*Practical, real-world approach with 77 case studies from around the globe
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*Student Study Guide on CD has practice problems/solutions, powerpoint slides, and selected case study solutions
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Clearly a Home Run!!!.......2006-03-18
This is one of those books that I wish I had written. As an experienced deal maker, I know what works and what doesn't. This book explains from a highly practical perspective the "art and science" of the deal. The author clearly has done his share of transactions in terms of his ability to capture the dynamic nature of the deal structuring and acquisition process. The author, as the chess master, goes through the development of alternative deal structures and strategies designed to consummate the deal. The process of offers and counter-offers is illustrated in a delightful and comprehensive case study at the end of the book.
The book is written with a fluid style that brings what for most are very difficult concepts to life in a readily understandable yet rigorous way. The author's nummerous insights are documented through references to recent academic and practitioner studies and illustrated by using recent case studies. I find the author's frequent use of brief studies of transactions to illustrate his current point very enlightening.
This book is far more than a reference or textbook; it is the reader's ticket to learning how to do deals and implement corporate restructuring activities. The book abounds with numerical and non-numerical examples to illustrate how to do things. The CD included with the text is easily worth the price of the book in that it provides numerous complex deal structuring and valuation M&A and LBO models. The CD also contains a wealth of other information including question lists for conducting due diligence and solutions to case study questions and problems contained in the text.
Yes, I wish I had written this book. But, then, those things are best left to those who can.
A Refreshing New Approach to Learning.......2006-01-01
Many business books take a pedantic, ponderous approach to what could easily be characterized as a challenging subject. However, I found the lively writing in this book to be very helpful to keeping my attention and to making difficult material more understandable. While the book is exhaustive, I found each chapter to be largely self contained. This text is clearly the most useful I have read on this subject. The CD included with the book contains models, presentations, chapter outlines, problem sets with answers, etc., all of which make this book the best available on the market.
Great Book and Great CD.......2005-12-22
This book is a one-stop shop for those interested in M&A. It covers all the relevant topics from how to develop a rigorous business plan appropriate to undertake an acquisition, to identifying and approaching target firms, to succesful negotiation, to planning and performing due dilgence, to planning and implementing successful integration, to financing the transaction. The book also addresses how to design effective takeover tactics and defenses. I was most impressed with the extent of the explanations about how to design and implement acquisition plans from a real world perspective. The author also addresses how to design effective takeover tactics and defenses. I also found the material on the M&A implications for governance very valuable.
The book is also very well documented. The extensive list of publications is very helpful for locating more articles and books on this exciting subject. I found the glossary of M&A terms among the most useful I've seen. It could be published as an M&A dictionary. The numerous case studies sprinkled throughtout the book are very helpful in demystifying the subject.
The CD included with the books contains a wealth of material often available on the internet for hundreds of dollars. The detailed M&A models and leveraged buyout models and due diligence question lists are available for customizing to meet your specific circumstances. I found the buyer due diligence question list in electronic form to be very valuable when it came time to making changes for my own needs The chapter outlines, study guides, and presentations also included on the CD are very helpful in internalizing the material. The CD also contains ansewrs to many case study questions and chapter questions.
All things considered, this book is a must have for anyone serious about learning the subject.
Highly Student Friendly.......2005-11-25
I am currently using this book in an M&A class and have found it to be an excellent business book. The book is exceptionally well organized, intuitive, and well-written. The book's use of bold type, self-explanatory headings facilitates the overall organization of the material, finding subject matter, and understanding key points the author is trying to make. The book is rich in examples, something that is often lacking in many books. The case studies for the most part of current, instructive, and insightful. The book is full of helpful insights and practical advice.
The CD -rom included with the book contains a lot of very useful stuff including powerpoint slides for each chapter, study guides for each chapter including chapter outlines and sample test questions and anwers, as well as anwers to many of the case study questions and problems in the book. The merger, acquisition, leveraged buyout and real option software illustrates how the pros analyze and value businesses. There are no secrets as you are able to access the underlying excel instructions to see how the models tick and to change them to suit your needs.
Overall, I would give this book an A+ for insightfulness, openess, practicality, readability,and organization.
Superb!!!.......2005-11-16
As you can see, I am very impressed with this book. It is by far the best book I have read on the subject in terms of thoughtfulness, organization, documentation, and practicality. It is full of well explained examples that make would could be a daunting subject understandable. The book comes with a CD that is full of M&A and LBO valuation software and excel spreadsheets, as well as a lot of other good stuff including powerpoint presentations highlighting lecture notes, student study guides, and answers to practice problems. All things considered, I would give this book a resounding thumbs up for those wanting to use in in their personal libraries, professions, or in the class room.
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Creating Value Through Corporate Restructuring: Case Studies in Bankruptcies, Buyouts, and Breakups
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A collection of case studies illustrates real-world techniques, implementation, and strategies on corporate restructuring
Over the period 1981-1998, public companies with combined assets of over half a trillion dollars filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Over the same period, over 400 public companies underwent corporate spin-offs, divesting businesses valued at more than $250 billion. Each of these companies, and all of these dollars, were in some way or another involved in corporate restructuring. Gilson's cases studies have been used extensively in executive programs and are perfect tools to refer to when faced with real-world corporate restructuring issues.
Stuart C. Gilson (Boston, MA) is an Associate Professor at Harvard University and a widely acknowledged expert on corporate restructuring. He has studied and published on the intricacies of both domestic and international corporate restructuring.
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Finance with Negative Signs.......2004-01-23
Someone (perhaps it was I) has said that bankruptcy is corporate finance with negative signs. This has always been true but it is amazing how far mainstream finance has gone to try to resist the comparison. The resistance must be, must have been more cultural than economic, because it is axiomatic that anything is a bargain at the right price, and that there is no more or less money to be made in "distress investing" than in any other. Two generations ago, there seems to have been only one person in American that really understood this point - the late Max Heine, who made his grubstake by investing in out-of-favor railroad bonds in the Great Depression, and then riding the wave of prosperity that emerged in World War II. In the same vein, 40 years ago just about any bankruptcy judge would have looked on an "assigned claim" as some kind of monster.
Times have changed. Now everybody's an arbitrageur. The "vulture investors" have their conferences, their social clubs, and for all I know, their own softball team.
Stuart C. Gilson"s "Corporate Restructuring" symbolizes the sea change from the old attitude to the new. It adds the imprimatur of the Harvard Business School to the notion that vulture investing is just another way of making money. As others have noted, this isn't a work of high theory - indeed it has a kind of slapdash, direct-off-the-photocopier feel that is remarkably common in business publications. For fancy theory, you look elsewhere - in law to the likes of Douglas Baird or Lucian Arye Bebchuk; in finance to the developing lore of "real options." But the case studies are an excellent device for getting a sense of the texture and possibilities of vulture investing. It can be read with profit alongside Hilary Rosenberg's "The Vulture Investors." Ambitious students who want the full theoretical framework will match it with David G. Luenberger's "Investment Science." But Gilson's work has merit on its own as one kind of introduction to this revolution in investment thinking.
Only usefull for students.......2003-03-04
What a waiste of money.... The writer has not included any anlyses or real solutions to the cases that a provided. Unless you are a student in a class that use this book, this book gives you absolute nothing.
Good book but needs a companion text.......2003-02-18
This is a very good case book, complete with intricate case studies illustrating numerous aspects of challenges often faced in restructuring in bankruptcy. However, the book assumes a level of knowledge about M&A concepts that many readers may not have. Consequently, I would recommend using this book in conjunction with another excellent text by DePamphilis entitled Mergers and Acquisitions: Integrated Approach. There are two editions. The second edition is more complete and up to date. It also tackles some of the problems illustrated in this book.
Just a collection of old cases.......2003-01-30
This book is a complete waste of time. It is just a collection of case studies bundled together and resold. There is no analysis done. The cases are merely reprinted word for word from the original HBS cases. There are three short intros to the different sections, but once again nothing useful. Great marketing ploy, lousy book.
Corporate Restructuring: It's Not Just for Lawyers Anymore.......2002-12-05
You'd be surprised by how few business schools offer courses on bankruptcy and restructuring. I know that I was. I came to Wharton this year to teach "Advanced Corporate Finance" in the MBA program. In preliminary "due diligence," I discovered there were no finance electives on bankruptcy and restructuring. To bridge the gap, I decided to conclude my course with two modules, one on Corporate Restructuring and the other on Bankruptcy.
Material for both modules came straight from Gilson's book. Students relished the case studies. They fueled many of the most lively and engaging discussions we enjoyed all term. Students are worried about the economy. For the first time, many also sense career opportunities in the area of distressed debt. When I planned the course, I counted on both to spur interest in the modules.
What I didn't count on was how well Gilson's cases would frame virtually all other material that I covered. Key lessons resurfaced from all modules: Financial Analysis and Forecasting, Capital Structure Policy, Capital Budgeting, and Mergers and Acquisitions. In each case, revisiting the ideas in the context of bankruptcy and restructuring threw them into high relief. So much so that I was able to substitute restructuring cases for those I had intended as "comprehensive" case discussions.
As important for educators, Gilson's cases provide all necessary background information about how key legal and procedural aspects of the Bankruptcy Code influence managers' decisions. In Gilson's cases, the decisions featured are crucial to determining how to maximize value in distressed situations, as well as how to distribute it when all is said and done.
In the final analysis, aren't these *exactly* the issues that MBA courses in corporate finance should address? My students at Wharton this term sure thought so. In the spring, my two sections are also already full. I've been told the "buzz" is mostly due to Gilson's restructuring material. Hopefully, some value was created in the delivery. Nonetheless, I couldn't recommend any material more highly for anyone planning to teach a spring term corporate finance course.
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The Organization in Crisis: Downsizing, Restructuring, and Privatization (Manchester Business and Management Series)
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The Organization in Crisis brings together a team of leading international researchers and practitioners to study the implementation and impact of organizational changes such as downsizing, restructuring and privatization.
The text provides a unique combination of research, theory and practice, and not only examines key issues associated with organizational change, but also suggests how such changes can be better managed in the future. Specific topics considered include the new employment relationship and its implications for careers, how organizational changes are affecting manager's views of their working lives, ethical issues in downsizing, and best practices for organizational renewal and revitalization. A range of case studies provides world-wide examples of initiatives being undertaken by leading-edge firms.
Together, the contributors capture the global nature of the difficulties confronting organizational leaders and highlight the need for creative solutions.
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This second edition is written readers who crave real world learning. Professor DePamphilis has filled this book with updated cases and grounded models which reflect the theoretical underpinnings of the field. Expanded usage of "key idea" section headings enable the student to understand more easily the key point in each section of each chapter. Chapter 5 provides a detailed listing of questions commonly used to evaluate target firms doing due diligence. A primer on using financial ratios in Chapter 8 has been extended to include a convenient summary of commonly used financial ratios and suggestions as to how they may be used to evaluate target firms. The accompanying CD includes a set of Excel spreadsheets that supplements Chapter 8.
An Instructor's manual, available on the web, contains suggested learning objectives, chapter presentations for creating lectures or providing students with study guides, more than 750 test questions and answers (including true/false, multiple choice, essay questions, and practice problems), and solutions to all chapter business case studies in the book. The manual also contains detailed course syllabi that have been used extensively for both undergraduate and graduate classes and suggested ways for teaching the materials.
Includes 18 new case studies; all 70 cases have been updated
Instructor's Manual available on the web; includes practice problems and solutions
Accompanying CD includes a set of Excel spreadsheets that will supplement Chapter 8
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Comprehensive and Useful M&A Text.......2005-08-04
This is an excellent book. The author thoroughly describes the process and analysis of mergers and acquisitions. He also outlines LBO's, shared growth, and alternative exit and restructuring strategies.
Includes great M&A modeling software.......2003-06-14
This book takes the mystery out of M&A financial modeling and structuring deals. Many books on the subject seem to take a "black box" approach to how to do deal structuring and valuation. The author discusses in plain language how to do valuation, simulation, and deal structuring using financial models and how to use such models to select the best offer price for a target firm. The book includes detailed discussions of tax, accounting, and alternative deal structures.
The CD accompanying the book contains an Excel spread sheet model that can be modified to fit the unique circumstances of any transaction. This alone justifies buying the book, in my opinion.
The book also provides keen insights into how M&A can be used to implement business plans, how to identify potential target firms, strategies for contacting potential targets, and how to draw up initial documents such as confidentiality agreements and letters of intent. The book is highly comprehensive covering virtually all topics necessary to understanding the M&A process.
For the money, it is the best book on the subject, up-to-date, complete, and highly readable. If you have a serious interest in the subject, this is an important book to add to your library.
Outstanding treatment of technical/non-tech.aspects of M&A.......2003-04-07
Unlike many other treatments of this subject, this text discusses M&A in the context of a process or framework. The author takes great pains to show how all M&A related activities interact. The text discusses both technical (e.g., valuation, accounting, and tax issues) and non-technical (e.g., strategy development, identifying potential targets, initial contact, negotiation, and integration) issues. The book does an excellent job of talking about alternatives to M&A for executing strategies, including alliances, joint ventures, partnerships, etc.
Numerous recent case studies illustrate various concepts and situations. The coverage of laws affecting different types of business combinations, of accounting standards applicable to M&A, and of relevant tax considerations is both current and excellent. The book also contains useful checklists to facilitate implementing transactions. The book is also chock full of helpful insights and hints of what to look for and how to avoid the traps that often accompany different types of transactions.
The book also contains an excellent discussion of other ways to enhance shareholder value. These include spin-offs, divestitures, carve-outs, bust-ups, and bankruptcy.
The book is highly practical and well-documented and could be viewed as a handbook on how to use M&A (or alternatives to M&A) to execute business stratgies. I think the book is an indispensable reference for accountants, lawyers, investment bankers, CFOs, and others involved in making transactions happen.
Thoughtful, Stimulating, and Enjoyable.......2003-03-22
This book is very well written...packed full of helpful information on M&A. The author's use of short cases to illustrate key points was most helpful. I found the down to earth discussion of how to put deals together very clear. I particularly enjoyed the fact that the scope of the book included an extensive discussion of alternative strategies such as JVs to mergers and acquisitions. The author also managed to include an exceedingly large number of case studies in the book, many of which were international transactions. Good book, good read. I highly recommend it.
Great M&A, Valuation, and Modeling Book.......2003-03-16
While this book covers all aspects of how to do a deal, the chapters on valuation, deal structuring, and financial modeling are by far the most lucid I have seen. The Excell spread sheet model on the CDROM accompanying the book provides incredibly helpful insight into how purchase price strategies are developed. The reader can review all of the underlying formulas enabling them to modify the model or to develop their own. Moreover, the model provides the reader with unusal insight in how all valuation, tax, accounting, and synergy considerations converge and interact to affect price. Overall, the book is very well written, clear, and supported.
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- Very good book clear and well reasoned.
- Excellent Book for Ambitious Entrepreneurs
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Strategic Partnerships: An Entrepreneur's Guide to Joint Ventures and Alliances
Robert Wallace
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Build long-term success though mutually beneficial relationships with larger business entities.
An estimated 20,000 corporate alliances have been formed worldwide over the past two years. Such strategic alliances can provide business owners with long-term security, new revenue channels, and, often, the anchor needed to maintain stability in otherwise turbulent waters.
A successful joint venture can open the door to a world of future partnership opportunities, says renowned entrepreneur Robert Wallace. In Strategic Partnerships: An Entrepreneur's Guide to Joint Ventures andAlliances, he outlines a framework business owners can use to conceive, develop, and execute such relationships between themselves and larger organizations. Based on the author's 20 years of field research, readers will learn how to:
* Evaluate the suitability of a potential joint venture partner.
* Establish relationship boundaries to define how partnering companies can work together through processes and complications.
* Keep relationships fun, exciting, and profitable.
* Properly and legally bring joint venture arrangements to a close.
Most chapters conclude with a case study of a business illustrating the chapter topic, along with an interview with an executive from a major corporation. The stories and interviews give readers real-life takeaways that they can relate and apply to their own situations, providing them with a specific tool to move forward in their development.
Robert Wallace is a longtime entrepreneur sought after for his expertise in engineering, telecommunications, systems development, business development, intrapreneurship, and entrepreneurship. He is the founder and chairman of a minority-owned IT consulting firm, and of a Web portal fostering the development of minority and women entrepreneurs. In 2000, Wallace was selected as the only small business member of the GE Center for Financial Learning Advisory Board.
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Very good book clear and well reasoned. .......2007-03-31
From the first I found the book to be filled with good information. Most business books put me to sleep, but this one kept me turning pages, a nice change. Why the change? because it offered great insight and ideas that get my creative mind flowing and showed me what great ventures are easily with in my reach.
Don't get me wrong, I've done my share of host beneficiaries and joint venture deals in the past, but I have never thought them though as the author suggests and outlines. The anthers JV outline is really a great way to work your way though the process from deciding on a partner to the final ending of the deal. All in all a great resource.
My suggestion is that if you have been thinking about getting a few deals going but are waiting to learn more, then wait no more. This book will put you on a solid footing to really go for it. And if you have done deals in the past and are wondering how to get better at the art then again this book is a great resource even for those with some kills under their belt.
On a bottom line note, for me business book boils down to this: Did the book help me to make money? So far it has not but I have only had it a few days. But the points are so clear and understandable that I'm going to look up past Host Ben partners and JV partners just to see if we can get the ball rolling again but this time even better and with even more profit. So yes I can easily predict that this book will help me make more money and profit in my business.
With that stated this book is all in all one of the best real world business books I've read in a while. It is a business builder and asset.
One last comment. The book is written with minorities in mind. Don't let that fool you even if you are Joe Average Every Man. The information will work for any business and any person.
Excellent Book for Ambitious Entrepreneurs.......2005-02-26
This is the best, most relevant book on building strategic alliances for ambitious woman- and minority-owned entrepreneurial companies that I have seen. It is an outstanding resource, being both very specific and highly useful. I have a small, young woman-owned business. Using the books' guidelines, I am currently in the process of developing a relationship with a very large national company and we are both excited about the opportunities to build success together.
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A Management Guide to Leveraged Buyouts
Edward K. Crawford
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This book is for managers, particularly those at small companies or divisions of larger companies, who aspire to be owners. Using real-life case studies, the author shows how buyouts proceed from beginning to end, shedding light on the roles played by investment bankers, lawyers, accountants, lenders, and investors. With information on tax and regulatory issues, the book shows how buyout techniques can be adapted to meet changing conditions. Both public companies and small privately held companies are included in the case studies. Owners and managers alike will gain a clearer understanding of the advantages and disadvantages of buyouts from this stimulating text.
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Leading Corporate Transformation: A Blueprint for Business Renewal (Jossey-Bass Business & Management Series)
Robert H. Miles
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The definitive guide to successful corporate transformation
?The framework Bob Miles illustrates in his new book has been the key tool Symantec has used to start the shift from being a technology-driven to a customer-driven company. Business leaders facing a variety of corporate transformation challenges will benefit from this important executive briefing.? -- Gordon E. Eubanks, Jr., chief executive officer, Symantec Corporation
The distillation of a stellar twenty-year career, Leading Corporate Transformation is consultant Robert Miles's reply to executives who want to be able to rise to the most pervasive challenge facing them today: how to achieve fundamental transformation without exposing the organization to unacceptable risk. Here, in the form of an executive briefing, are the expert guidance and tools you need to meet a variety of corporate transformation challenges, whether you are trying to reposition a successful company, revitalize a failing one, merge different businesses and cultures, or manage a leadership succession process. These insights are relevant not only for senior executives, but also for managers at all levels of an organization undergoing fundamental transformation. If you are a leader who must effect organizational change, you will want to keep this book close at hand.
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"The Corporate Transformation Framework.".......2000-05-18
"Corporate transformation challenges come in many forms and confront executive leaders with an array of vexing questions: How can I help my company, which is at the top of its competitive game, sidestep complacency and energize people to redirect their efforts and reposition their organization? How can I lead my company, which has lost its way and greatly depleted its resources, to revitalize itself for competitive excellence? How can our recently merged companies or functions overcome business and cultural differences? Or, more simply, now that I am in a position to do so, how can I effectively take charge of my organization and help people develop a new agenda to lead us through the next phase of its development? These questions, and more, have found successful resolution through the framework for leading corporate transformation described in this book (R. H. Miles)."
In this context, in the first part of this book, Robert H. Miles offers a framework for leading corporate transformation. This framework, as stated by Miles, identifies the major/required tasks that a leader-indeed, that leaders at all leves in the organization-must perform to achieve successful transformation without exposing the corporation to unacceptable risk :
I. Generate Energy for Transformation
* Confront reality
* Create and reallocate resources
* Raise the bar
* Model desired behaviors
II. Develop a Vision and Business Success Model
* Develop a strategic vision
* Model business success
* Analyze the total system: current vs. vision states
* Identify the gaps
* Focus on a few transformation initiatives
III. Align the Organization
* Restructure
* Implement infrastructure
* Reshape the culture
* Build core competencies
IV. Create a Transformation Process Architecture
* Educate and involve
* Create coordination and feedback mechanisms
* Communicate progress
* Fill transformation skill gaps
According to R. H. Miles these elements of the framework provide not only a platform for launching a corporate transformation, but also for managing transitions from one phase of transformation to the next en route to the vision state.
I highly recommend.
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This volume offers a timely examination of technology's impact on media companies and the results of convergence among media industries, considering the effects on journalistic, business, and economic practices. Media Organizations and Convergence: Case Studies of Media Convergence Pioneers considers the many definitions of convergence and explores the changes in communication technologies. Author Gracie L. Lawson-Borders provides a brief history of media segments and their evolutions as they adapt to emerging technologies, media conglomeration, and the competitive and global changes that have occurred in the industry. She also examines the theoretical implications of technology and convergence in the operations and practices of media organizations. The case studies included here profile three media convergence pioneers—Tribune Company in Chicago, Media General in Richmond, and Belo Corporation in Dallas—that have incorporated convergence into their journalistic practices. Lawson-Borders considers the social, cultural, and political implications of convergence, and presents issues and concerns for the future of convergence in the media industry. As a snapshot of media convergence at the current stage in its evolution, this book offers important insights into the business of media at a time of dramatic change. It will be a valuable resource for scholars and students in media management, mass communication, mass media, and related areas of the media industry.
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Mergers and acquisitions is the predominant form of internationalization, expansion, and growth. In the past, research on M&As focused on legal, financial, and economic aspects to determine the best "strategic fit" with optimal synergy effects.
Yet a failure rate of roughly fifty-percent gave rise to an increasing awareness of organizational and cultural aspects of integration strategies, the importance of cultural factors for globalization: the "cultural fit". The reader, based on case studies of transnational companies, provides an overview of the different theoretical and methodological approaches and debates crucial issues of high significance for management students and managers alike.
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