... more value for customers. After many studies of the last four decades of mergers, it’s well known that the results are wide ranging, with big winners and big losers. Shareholder value M&A Due diligence Synergies Culture and change High-level assumptions for revenue growth or margin...

... 35‐year addiction to “maximizing shareholder value” has been disastrous for shareholders, for employees, the personal lives of executives, for the economy and for society at large. Design/methodology/approach In the interview Martin outlines the forces at work that preserve...

... for organizational growth. Whether the goal is improving margins, increasing market share or raising shareholder value, growth is critical. Despite the fact that merger success rates are deplorably low, corporations have turned increasingly to mergers and acquisitions to fuel their future success. The chief...

... to have declined significantly in recent years, as the focus on the ultimate goal of increasing shareholder value has intensified. Trends have been quite different, however. M&A growth actually accelerated throughout the 1990s, both in the number of deals announced and the dollar value of M...

...David I. Goldenberg Shareholder‐value proponents claim a new, economically sound way to maximize profits, create wealth, measure performance, and reward executives. That invalid claim is dangerous. Stocks of shareholder‐value firms appreciated barely 15 percent as much as another, time‐tested...