Behavioral biases can lead to ideal acquisition choices-with the potential for mistakes exacerbated in combining businesses, where consolidators fight escalating takeover battles for platform businesses that may establish their future competitive position and design serial acquisition strategies.
To direct objective managerial judgment, and to anticipate the irrational behavior of financial markets or rival bidders, this article proposes a modified alternative-game toolkit for serial acquisition strategy. It brings together insights from both strategy and finance, which quantify acquisition strategies, thus allowing executives to make choices that are rational intuitive under uncertainty.
Playing at Serial Acquisitions case study solution
PUBLICATION DATE: November 01, 2010 PRODUCT #: CMR470-PDF-ENG
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