Category: Private Equity & M&A
What Facebook Must Do To Transfer Acquired Karma’s Karma
The hard side of Facebook's acquisition of Karma, the data transfer, is relatively easy. The soft side is harder and where Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg et al need to focus…
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Merging Cultures Post-Acquisition at Fujitsu America
Doye was helped by the team’s general consensus that one of the new hires was not fitting culturally. Moving on that new hire was step one. From there, Doye changed out…
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Answer Three Key Onboarding Due Diligence Questions
Three Questions Leading to the Right Table The ability and willingness to assess and deal with risk is often a critical differentiator between success and failure. Once you’ve been offered…
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Three Priorities in Ensuring a Smooth M&A Deal
AMN Healthcare Services CEO Susan Salka says its most recent acquisition of Medfinders is going “exceptionally well.” She believes the acquisition has strengthened its position as the country’s largest health…
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How Kenexa CEO Rudy Karsan is Making the Salary.com Acquisition Work
Former Ernst & Young Partner and Coca Cola CEO Doug Ivester once told me that 30% of acquisitions fail because the acquiring company overpays and saddles itself with unrealistic pro…
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Cusack Capital CEO’s Second Act Disaster (Onboarding Done Wrong)
Cusack’s first mistake was his failure to move from “seller” to “buyer” after the job offer. He conducted virtually no due diligence before accepting. James Googled Cy Leeser, read trade…
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Will Robert Gibbs Find a Friend in Facebook?
I’m not sure how Gibbs and Zuckerberg and his tribe will fit together. What’s scary is neither are they and neither are most people looking to onboard into new organizations.…
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