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Mergers & Acquisitions: The Importance of Creating a Shared Culture

Organizational Talent Consulting

UNDERSTANDING THE LOCAL CULTURAL CONTEXT Today many industries and organizations operate on a global scale. Usually, due diligence is conducted by lawyers and experts in finance or accounting rather than experts in understanding and diagnosing culture. Human Resource Management, 50(6), 859-877. Don’t walk away. & Mirvis, P.

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3 Ways M&A Is Different When You’re Acquiring a Digital Company

Harvard Business

Doing digital M&A right means upending the way most companies approach financing, due diligence, and merger integration. Let’s start with financing the deal. Meanwhile, because digital targets tend to be expensive, acquirers are limited in their ability to use stock to finance a deal. Sponsored by DXC Technology.

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How Companies, Governments, and Nonprofits Can Create Social Change Together

Harvard Business

In 2016, socially responsible investing made up more than one out of every four invested dollars under professional management. “To prosper over time,” he argued, “companies must benefit all of their stakeholders, including shareholders, employees, customers, and the communities in which they operate.”

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Writing Your Résumé When Your Job Title Doesn’t Reflect Your Responsibilities

Harvard Business

Oversee resource allocation and budgeting. She distilled the notes about her many accomplishments into an overview of the 10 years in her current role: Keep University’s School of Design (eight graduate programs) running flawlessly for Director, other staff, faculty, and students — during routine operations and emergencies.

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Why Some of the Most Groundbreaking Technologies Are a Bad Fit for the Silicon Valley Funding Model

Harvard Business

Stanford provost Frederick Terman, as well as existing companies such as Hewlett-Packard, also devoted resources to broadening and strengthening the entrepreneurial ecosystem. If you have an idea to apply mature technology to a well-understood problem, it’s relatively easy to get it financed.

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Rethinking How Medicaid Patients Receive Care

Harvard Business

Critics outside of CareMore issued an ugly forecast: Our resource-intensive approach to care would never survive on Medicaid’s meager reimbursement levels. Our primary care clinicians operate in multidisciplinary teams. To many at the time, we were fools. Great physicians would never choose to treat Medicaid patients.

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Chicago's Fiscal Freefall: Moody's Cuts Chicago Credit Rating to Two Steps Above Junk; Snake Oil and Swaps; It's All Junk Now

MishTalk

The city’s credit quality could weaken as unfunded pension liabilities grow and exert increased pressure on the city’s operating budget,” Moody’s analysts Matthew Butler and Rachel Cortez wrote. “ billion operating budget and is required by an Illinois law to boost the 2016 contribution to its police and fire pension funds by $550 million.

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