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Mergers & Acquisitions: The Importance of Creating a Shared Culture

Organizational Talent Consulting

The leadership challenge is to figure out the best way to manage the formation of a blended new shared culture. A framework for the role of the human resource in managing culture in mergers and acquisitions. Human Resource Management, 50(6), 859-877. Human Resource Management, 50(6), 859-877. Don’t walk away.

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IMS Consulting Group (IMS Health) Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

1988 brought a major change when D&B acquired IMS Health for nearly $1.7B. In 2004 , IMS Health engaged in building consulting capabilities in both health economics and outcomes research. Tender strategies and management. Key account management strategies. Life-cycle management strategy.

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Value-Based Care Alone Won’t Reduce Health Spending and Improve Patient Outcomes

Harvard Business

The primary care clinics involved became certified patient-centered medical homes, and we expanded the typical physician-nurse team that managed asthma to include a social worker, a psychologist, and a case manager. Most health systems will need to manage a multitude of reimbursement methodologies.

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ZS Associates Firm Profile

Management Consulted

Founded in 1983 by Kellogg School of Management marketing professors Andris A. In 1982, Andy presented his and Prabha’s mathematical models for sales force sizing and territory alignment to the Pharmaceutical Management Science Association (PMSA), using an early Apple computer to display sales territories on-site. sales force teams.

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Research Shows That Smaller M&A Deals Work Out Better

Harvard Business

Our data shows that from 2004 to 2014, WPP made a staggering 271 acquisitions — which averages to more than one every two weeks — 60% more than the next busiest acquirer during that decade, Google (now Alphabet). In 2004 PCC was in a poor position. Corning spent a net $3.2

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The Reinvention of NASA

Harvard Business

The Commercial Space Launch Act of 1984 (and amendments in 1988 and 2004) called for government agencies such as NASA to support the development and growth of commercial space. The work was distributed: NASA ISS program managers led the effort at the operational level and worked with international counterparts to implement the program.