M&A
A unified Business Development and Partnering system, lessons learned from a Biopharma Leader
We recently finalized the deployment of our Business Development & Licensing product suite at one of the largest global pharmaceutical companies. This deployment represents a significant shift from a company that was plagued with the challenges and inefficiencies of a widely decentralized, geographically and culturally diverse community of business development teams to a highly agile, [...]
Tags: alliance management, business development, dealflow, due diligence, enterprise innovation, in licensing, M&A, merger and acquisition, Opportunity, Partnering
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Do Mergers and Acquistions Bring Lasting Value?
Over 300 billion dollars of value evaporated between the moment the AOL Time Warner merger was announced in January 2000 and December 2009, when AOL spun off and started to trade as its own public company again. While this transaction is certainly an extreme case when measured in terms of value destroyed, a significant number [...]
Tags: acquisition, acquisitions, AOL, business, business development, culture, development, eds-pick, guru, innovation, M&A, merger, merging, Time Warner, values
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