December 2004

Posted on December 15, 2004 at 2:45 PM
Filed under: Acquisitions | Corporate Strategy | Cover Story | Nov.-Dec. 2004 | People | The Magazine
Tagged: acquisitions , Best Buy , Bradbury Anderson , corporate development , Darren Jackson , George Lopuch , Kal Patel , Richard Schulze , Ryan Robinson

The giant consumer electronics retailer is thriving, but it can't afford to stand pat--especially in the way it runs finance, strategy and corporate development.  Continue reading

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Posted on December 15, 2004 at 2:20 PM
Filed under: Integration | Nov.-Dec. 2004 | People | The Magazine
Tagged: ADP , Automatic Data Processing , corporate development , deals , Harry Durity , M&A , PMI

Like many corporate dealmakers, Harry Durity isn't directly responsible for what happens post-deal - but he sure has a big stake in making deals successful.  Continue reading

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Posted on December 15, 2004 at 2:00 PM
Filed under: Acquisitions | Information Technology | Nov.-Dec. 2004 | People | The Magazine
Tagged: CIO , HSBC , information technology , integration , Ken Harvey , merge , technology

Imagine the information technology issues that arise when two giant banks merge. Each has a huge IT infrastructure, created over many years to serve millions of customers and operate the institution's complex financial plumbing. Melding the two must be a major technical challenge, right? Actually, no. "It's not a...  Continue reading

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Posted on December 15, 2004 at 11:48 AM
Filed under: Job Description | Nov.-Dec. 2004 | People | The Magazine
Tagged: books , deals , job description , John Wiley & Sons , Timothy King

Quietly, steadily, Tim King has done the deals that have kept the 197-year-old publisher more than up to date.  Continue reading

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Posted on December 15, 2004 at 11:41 AM
Filed under: Acquisitions | Corporate Strategy | Nov.-Dec. 2004 | The Magazine
Tagged: M&A , strategic planning , strategy

For the past couple of months, thousands of major corporations have been engaged in the yearly rite of planning strategy. When done well, strategic planning provides a center of gravity and a common language that energizes employees. Unfortunately, most companies will spend an enormous amount of energy doing it...  Continue reading

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Posted on December 15, 2004 at 11:35 AM
Filed under: Acquisitions | Corporate Strategy | Integration | Nov.-Dec. 2004 | The Magazine
Tagged: acquire , culture , decision-making , human resources , M&A , performance management , Pritchett

I love you, you're perfect; now change. For as long as big companies have bought small ones, this approach to post-merger integration has been nearly as common as it is self-defeating. When a deal is coming together, commercial logic is emphasized and cultural differences are often overlooked. Later, when the...  Continue reading

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Posted on December 15, 2004 at 11:28 AM
Filed under: Nov.-Dec. 2004 | Outsourcing | The Magazine | Trends
Tagged: John Halvey , legal brief , Milbank , outsourcing , Tweed

Structuring outsourcing transactions in a changing regulatory environment will be a key topic over the next decade.  Continue reading

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Posted on December 15, 2004 at 10:59 AM
Filed under: Corporate Venture Capital | Nov.-Dec. 2004 | The Magazine
Tagged: ChevronTexaco , corporate venture capital , Greg Vesey , oil , technology

ChevronTexaco Technology Ventures ponders its investing scheme amidst other plans for efficiency in the oil business.  Continue reading

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Posted on December 15, 2004 at 10:49 AM
Filed under: Acquisitions | Corporate Strategy | Cover Story | Nov.-Dec. 2004 | The Magazine
Tagged: acquire , acquisition , Best Buy , Geek Squad , Ryaqn Robinson

Big companies like to buy small ones with good ideas and hook them up to their powerful distribution channels. The payoffs can be big, but when the target's a service provider, the challenges often are too. Yet as Best Buy Co. is proving with its purchase and buildup of...  Continue reading

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Posted on December 15, 2004 at 10:30 AM
Filed under: CD Community | Corporate Strategy | Intellectual property | Nov.-Dec. 2004 | Research and development | The Magazine
Tagged: Caltech , Columbia , intellectual property , R&D , schools , Stanford

At a growing number of companies, the search for innovation now leads beyond their own R&D departments and past the labs over at the competition, or in startup companies. Instead, they're looking to an old source that's gotten newly aggressive in pitching its intellectual property: academia. It would seem...  Continue reading

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