What the Biggest Business Deals of 2019 Tell Us About the Next Decade
By Ben Gomes-Casseres | Originally in HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW | Unlike the earth’s climate,…
Harvard Business Review Articles
The CVS-Aetna Merger Hinges on One Question: What Do Consumers Get Out of It?
By Ben Gomes-Casseres | Originally in HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW | November 7, 2017 The proposed…
Acquiring Value: Strategies for M&A — HBR Webinar
By Ben Gomes-Casseres | Webinar presented by HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW | Alliances, partnerships, acquisitions,…
Who Killed The GE Model?
By Ben Gomes-Casseres | Originally in HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW | This blog has gotten…
How Mergers and Partnerships Change The Way You Compete
By Ben Gomes-Casseres | Originally in HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW | M&A and partnership deals…
What the Big Mergers of 2017 Tell Us About 2018
By Ben Gomes-Casseres | Originally in HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW | The great business remix of…
What Does Whole Foods Get from Amazon? Alexa, for Starters
By Ben Gomes-Casseres | Originally in HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW | All the talk about…
Why Your Partnership Contract Is Too Important to Be Left to the Lawyers
By Ben Gomes-Casseres | Originally in HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW | Behind every partnership lurks…
Mergers vs Regulators — Lessons from Halliburton, Pfizer, and Staples
By Ben Gomes-Casseres | Originally in HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW | Regulatory authorities in the…
Three Types of Acquisitions — Lessons from Microsoft and LinkedIn
By Ben Gomes-Casseres | Originally in HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW | Microsoft’s acquisition of LinkedIn…
How Divestments Create Value — The Case of Yahoo!
By Ben Gomes-Casseres | Originally in HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW | Just as the M&A…
Sources of Joint Value — Questions About Pfizer-Allergan
By Ben Gomes-Casseres | Originally in HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW | Pfizer and Allergan…
Personal Chemistry in Partnerships — Handle With Care
By Ben Gomes-Casseres | Originally in HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW | When I hear…
The Strategy Behind the Deal — Questions About Dell-EMC
By Ben Gomes-Casseres | Originally in HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW | The news that Dell…
The Three Laws of Business Combinations — Excerpt of Remix Strategy
By Ben Gomes-Casseres | Originally in HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW | When you look…
BOOK: Remix Strategy — The Three Laws of Business Combinations
HBR Press Release What Is “Remix Strategy?” In contemporary music and art,…
From Rivals to Partners — IBM and Apple
By Ben Gomes-Casseres | Originally in HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW | The lynchpin of…
Merger Are Partnerships Too — Trending Now
By Ben Gomes-Casseres | Originally in HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW | Corporate marriage brokers are…
The Business Remix — Trending Now
By Ben Gomes-Casseres | Originally in HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW | Investment bankers…
Exit and Loyalty — Yahoo and Tumbler
By Ben Gomes-Casseres | Originally in HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW | As Yahoo goes through…
The False Security of Contracts — HP vs Oracle
By Ben Gomes-Casseres | Originally in HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW | Hewlett Packard and Oracle…
How to Manage Multiple Partnerships
By Ben Gomes-Casseres | Originally in HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW | If you think politicians…
Managing High-Stakes Partners
By Ben Gomes-Casseres | Originally in HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW | When I started…
A Partnership Is Not a Purchase Order
By Ben Gomes-Casseres | Originally in HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW | Scott McNealy, ex-CEO of…
Competing for Partners — Japan Airlines, Delta, and AA
By Ben Gomes-Casseres | Originally in HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW | Japan Airlines has…
Learning by Joint Venture — NUMMI
By Ben Gomes-Casseres | Originally in HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW | Last week, Toyota…
Outsourcing: Where Will You Draw the Line?
By Ben Gomes-Casseres | Originally in HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW | The Defense…
Microsoft and Yahoo: Too Little, Too Late, Too Hyped
By Ben Gomes-Casseres | Originally in HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW | It took over a…
Group versus Group: How Alliance Networks Compete
By Ben Gomes-Casseres | Originally in HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW | Collaboration in business is…
Other Online Articles
In 2018, Did Business Get Too Big?
By Ben Gomes-Casseres | In THE NEW YORK TIMES | December 21, 2018 The…
Why Your Next Deal May Be a Partnership
By Bob Saada and Ben Gomes-Casseres | In STRATEGY+BUSINESS | December 3, 2018 More…
The Amazon-Morgan-Berkshire Partnership Balloon
By Ben Gomes-Casseres This blog was cited in The New York Times’s…
The 10 most remarkable deals — and busts — of 2016
By Ben Gomes-Casseres | Originally in PBS MAKING SEN$E | Editor’s note: Even if…
The “Curse of Bigness” Today
By Ben Gomes-Casseres | Originally in PBS MAKING SEN$E | Portions of this article are…
10 Most Remarkable Deals of 2015
By Ben Gomes-Casseres | Originally in MARKETWATCH | In this banner year for corporate…
The Great Remix: Why Mergers are Booming
By Ben Gomes-Casseres | Originally in HUFFINGTON POST | Another day, another merger. Telephone…
5 Tips for the Right Way to Do Business With Friends
(Review of a blog based on Remix Strategy.) Forging alliances and making strategic…
Column: Why mergers are booming
By Ben Gomes-Casseres | Originally in PBS MAKING SEN$E | Editor’s Note: According to preliminary…
Creating Joint Value
(Strategic Alliance Magazine) In Biopharma and many other industries, “Not Invented Here”…
Outsource, Don’t Abdicate
(CIO Magazine) The term “outsourcing” is an unfortunate one. With every outsourced…
Can AOL and Google Marriage Work?
The Providence Journal Op-Ed (2005) Google’s billion-dollar engagement ring to AOL will…
Alliance Sweet Talk: Tough Questions Worth Asking
(Milestone Group Newsletter) How should investors react when they catch high-tech CEOs…
Another Enron Casualty: Trust in Partnerships
(Unpublished Op-Ed) Enron “partnerships” give bad name to cooperative ventures. But Enron…
Relationship Lessons from the Ford-Firestone Breakup
(Bridge Forum Op-Ed) Firestone’s breakup with Ford is the most public corporate…
American Airlines and British Airways
(Providence Journal Op-Ed) U.S. Justice Department blocks AA-BA deal. It does not…
Xerox and Fuji Xerox
(Associated Press – excerpted) Restructuring of Fuji Xerox provides opportunity to draw…
Strategy Must Lie at the Heart of Alliances
(Financial Times) Alliances formed at high levels, often blessed with the designation…
Microsoft Verdict Reveals Dark Side of Strategic Alliances
(Unpublished Op-Ed) Judge Penfield Jackson’s verdict in the Microsoft anti-trust case last…
Alliance and Risk: Securing a Place in the Victory Parade
(Financial Times) Alliances can help companies hedge between competing technology standards and…
Videos: The Social Contract Between Business and Society
By Ben Gomes-Casseres I am honored to occupy the Peter A. Petri…