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Breaking Down Case Interview Frameworks – M&A (Mergers and Acquisitions)

Management Consulted

If your client wants to integrate the target, is there potential for synergy, either by piggybacking one company’s strong areas onto the others to increase sales or by reducing operating costs? For example, how much of a risk is it to integrate two different sales departments, each of which with its own bonus structure?

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3 Common M&A Pitfalls, and How to Avoid Them

Harvard Business

But the M&A landscape is also littered with examples of failures, such as Microsoft’s attempt to buy its way into the mobile market by acquiring Nokia. billion on Skype , which it hoped would increase sales on its platform by giving buyers and sellers an instant communications channel. In 2005, eBay spent $2.6 Insight Center.

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Your Company Needs a More-Radical Board of Directors

Harvard Business

If your strategy relies heavily on aggressive M&A, for example, do you really want a CFO who doesn’t command a salary higher than the norm? But a relatively unknown, unbranded intellectual property company – with far less to lose – might be much more aggressive in minimizing taxes.

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Two Ways to Break into India’s Consumer Market

Harvard Business

However, recent developments have opened new doors for consumer product companies to expand their presence and sales in India, at much lower risks. New entrants tend to start by exporting finished goods from the nearest Asian factory with a desire to protect brand quality and/or intellectual property and/or to minimize capital investments.

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30 Best Consultant Websites & Why They Have Them (2022)

Tsavo Neal

“What are examples of some of the best consultant websites?” Best Consulting Website Examples If you are looking for some inspiration for your consulting website, the examples below will help. In fact, my website is my secret 24/7 sales agent. ” “Why does an independent consultant need a website?”

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The Global Tax Agreement – A Friend or Foe for the Big 4?

Tom Spencer

The first one seeks to implement a principle for taxation of corporate revenues based on location of sale rather than place of manufacturing. For example, when a shell company located in a low tax jurisdiction has no business operations other than being the formal owner of valuable intellectual property, and collecting royalty fees for it.

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The Darknet: A Quick Introduction for Business Leaders

Harvard Business

When companies are hacked and their data is stolen, that data often appears for sale on the so-called darknet. Earlier this year, for example, user data from both the mega-hack of Yahoo (500 million accounts) and the uTorrent breach (400,000 accounts) showed up on the darknet’s illicit marketplaces.