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Importance of Culture for Mergers and Acquisitions

LSA Global

Smart acquisitions can provide immediate access to valuable new products, technologies, talent, intellectual property, clients, and geographies. Successful culture integration requires the same thoughtful due diligence that is applied to the legal, financial, technological, and operational aspects of the deal.

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You Don’t Need to Be a Silicon Valley Startup to Have a Network-Based Strategy

Harvard Business

Building a successful platform business is hard enough when you have an original idea, ample capital, no core business to cannibalize, and a team of top talent. Intellectual capital. For most companies intellectual property is something that sits on their balance sheet. So what’s a legacy company to do?

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Your Company Needs a More-Radical Board of Directors

Harvard Business

First, directors face a real challenge in making sure that protection and alignment of key governance and risk management issues doesn’t crowd out equally important dialogue around strategy and operations. I’m not against benchmarking and norming. Benchmarking and norming won’t always lead to the right decision.