Bidder beware

Directors of companies ambitious to expand or diversify through acquisitions could do a lot worse than read these books—the first by a veteran practitioner, the second by a young business-school academic

Jul 17th 1997|

THE SYNERGY MYTH: THE FORMER CHAIRMAN OF ITT DEBUNKS DOWNSIZING, RE-ENGINEERING, BUREAUCRACY AND CORPORATE CULTURE.

This article appeared in the Culture section of the print edition under the headline “Bidder beware”

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