In 2018, Did Business Get Too Big?
By Ben Gomes-Casseres | In THE NEW YORK TIMES | December 21, 2018 The number of mega mergers announced this year raises…
By Ben Gomes-Casseres | In THE NEW YORK TIMES | December 21, 2018 The number of mega mergers announced this year raises…
By Bob Saada and Ben Gomes-Casseres | In STRATEGY+BUSINESS | December 3, 2018 More than a quarter-century of global data on alliances…
By Ben Gomes-Casseres This blog was cited in The New York Times’s DealBook (January 30, 2018): The effort focuses on…
By Ben Gomes-Casseres | Originally in PBS MAKING SEN$E | Editor’s note: Even if the volume of mergers and acquisitions fell short…
By Ben Gomes-Casseres | Originally in PBS MAKING SEN$E | Portions of this article are from the author’s article in Harvard Business Review,…
By Ben Gomes-Casseres | Originally in MARKETWATCH | In this banner year for corporate deals, some have been impressive and others less…
By Ben Gomes-Casseres | Originally in HUFFINGTON POST | Another day, another merger. Telephone companies, drug companies, drugstores, airlines, hospitals, retail stores,…
(Review of a blog based on Remix Strategy.) Forging alliances and making strategic partnerships is an important decision, But basing a…
By Ben Gomes-Casseres | Originally in PBS MAKING SEN$E | Editor’s Note: According to preliminary data from Thomson Reuters, $3.19 trillion in deals were…
(Strategic Alliance Magazine) In Biopharma and many other industries, “Not Invented Here” is SO Last Century. Joint value is the…
(CIO Magazine) The term “outsourcing” is an unfortunate one. With every outsourced task comes a new responsibility to govern that…
The Providence Journal Op-Ed (2005) Google’s billion-dollar engagement ring to AOL will not buy love, but it will buy bragging…
(Milestone Group Newsletter) How should investors react when they catch high-tech CEOs singing love songs to each other? First, with…
(Unpublished Op-Ed) Enron “partnerships” give bad name to cooperative ventures. But Enron experience also shows investors must consider the alliances…
(Bridge Forum Op-Ed) Firestone’s breakup with Ford is the most public corporate divorce in recent memory. But it is far…
(Providence Journal Op-Ed) U.S. Justice Department blocks AA-BA deal. It does not believe that AA and BA could cooperate in…
(Associated Press – excerpted) Restructuring of Fuji Xerox provides opportunity to draw lessons from its past success. Available here.
(Financial Times) Alliances formed at high levels, often blessed with the designation “strategic”, have often failed to deliver. The problem:…
(Unpublished Op-Ed) Judge Penfield Jackson’s verdict in the Microsoft anti-trust case last week should be required reading for any corporate…
Videos: The Social Contract Between Business and Society
By Ben Gomes-Casseres I am honored to occupy the Peter A. Petri Chair in Business and Society at Brandeis University,…