Mastering the Merger: Four Critical Decisions That Make or Break the Deal

Today's corporate deal makers face a conundrum: Though 70% of major acquisitions fail, it's nearly impossible to build a world-class company without doing deals. In Mastering the Merger , David Harding and Sam Rovit argue that a laserlike focus on just four key imperatives—before executives finalize the deal—can dramatically improve the odds of M&A success. Based on more than 30 years of in-the-trenches work on thousands of deals across a range of industries—and supplemented by ext…