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…
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Why Your Next Deal May Be a Partnership
By Bob Saada and Ben Gomes-Casseres | In STRATEGY+BUSINESS | December 3, 2018 More than a quarter-century of global data on alliances…
The Amazon-Morgan-Berkshire Partnership Balloon
By Ben Gomes-Casseres This blog was cited in The New York Times’s DealBook (January 30, 2018): The effort focuses on…
The 10 most remarkable deals — and busts — of 2016
By Ben Gomes-Casseres | Originally in PBS MAKING SEN$E | Editor’s note: Even if the volume of mergers and acquisitions fell short…
The “Curse of Bigness” Today
By Ben Gomes-Casseres | Originally in PBS MAKING SEN$E | Portions of this article are from the author’s article in Harvard Business Review,…
10 Most Remarkable Deals of 2015
By Ben Gomes-Casseres | Originally in MARKETWATCH | In this banner year for corporate deals, some have been impressive and others less…
The Great Remix: Why Mergers are Booming
By Ben Gomes-Casseres | Originally in HUFFINGTON POST | Another day, another merger. Telephone companies, drug companies, drugstores, airlines, hospitals, retail stores,…
5 Tips for the Right Way to Do Business With Friends
(Review of a blog based on Remix Strategy.) Forging alliances and making strategic partnerships is an important decision, But basing a…
Column: Why mergers are booming
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…
Creating Joint Value
(Strategic Alliance Magazine) In Biopharma and many other industries, “Not Invented Here” is SO Last Century. Joint value is the…
Outsource, Don’t Abdicate
(CIO Magazine) The term “outsourcing” is an unfortunate one. With every outsourced task comes a new responsibility to govern that…
Can AOL and Google Marriage Work?
The Providence Journal Op-Ed (2005) Google’s billion-dollar engagement ring to AOL will not buy love, but it will buy bragging…
Alliance Sweet Talk: Tough Questions Worth Asking
(Milestone Group Newsletter) How should investors react when they catch high-tech CEOs singing love songs to each other? First, with…
Another Enron Casualty: Trust in Partnerships
(Unpublished Op-Ed) Enron “partnerships” give bad name to cooperative ventures. But Enron experience also shows investors must consider the alliances…
Relationship Lessons from the Ford-Firestone Breakup
(Bridge Forum Op-Ed) Firestone’s breakup with Ford is the most public corporate divorce in recent memory. But it is far…
American Airlines and British Airways
(Providence Journal Op-Ed) U.S. Justice Department blocks AA-BA deal. It does not believe that AA and BA could cooperate in…
Xerox and Fuji Xerox
(Associated Press – excerpted) Restructuring of Fuji Xerox provides opportunity to draw lessons from its past success. Available here.
Strategy Must Lie at the Heart of Alliances
(Financial Times) Alliances formed at high levels, often blessed with the designation “strategic”, have often failed to deliver. The problem:…
Microsoft Verdict Reveals Dark Side of Strategic Alliances
(Unpublished Op-Ed) Judge Penfield Jackson’s verdict in the Microsoft anti-trust case last week should be required reading for any corporate…
Alliance and Risk: Securing a Place in the Victory Parade
(Financial Times) Alliances can help companies hedge between competing technology standards and reduce the costs of major strategic change by…
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,…