Published January 3, 2025
interviewed Feng Gu about why so many mergers and acquisitions (M&A) fail. Together with Baruch Lev from New York ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½, they recently published “The M&A Failure Trap: Why So Many Mergers and Acquisitions Fail, and How the Few Succeed” (Wiley). They discussed their findings, and the lessons they drew for would be acquirers. “The human element is a frequently ignored aspect of M&A, and we put a lot of effort into uncovering some previously unknown, important patterns concerning the behavior of employees around the time of acquisition,” Gu said.
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