Posted on November 24, 2009 at 5:06 PM
Filed under: Acquisitions | Corporate Strategy
Tagged: Elias Mendoza , IBM Corp.

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IBM Corp.'s (NYSE:IBM) massive strategic shift into IT services got underway more than a decade ago. Now an impressive list of technology heavyweights is driving harder for a share of that lucrative market. In the past two months, Xerox Corp. (NYSE:XRX), Dell Inc. (NASDAQ:DELL) and Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE:HPQ) have announced significant transactions that expand their IT services businesses. How have those deals affected the strategy of sector leader IBM? The company's vice president of corporate development Elias Mendoza says IBM is on track to meet its acquisition targets, but the increased competition for deals has it looking farther into the future as it maps its own strategic moves. See the video below or download it at iTunes. - Suzanne Stevens



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• Rochdale Securities Richard Bove on BofA CEO possibilities, Goldman Sachs $500 million donation, and bank failures and financial reform,
  
• Novartis' Marvelle Sullivan on cross-border dealmaking,
• PwC's Mark Ross on divestments,
• Centerview's Blair Effron on large deals,
• Morgan Stanley's Jim Rosenthal,
• IBM's Mendoza on using i-bankers,
• Huntsman Gay's Steve Young on QBs as PE investors,
  
• Deutsche Bank's John Eydenberg on PE IPOs,
• Morgan Stanley's Jim Rosenthal on the Smith Barney integration,
• Streambank's Gabriel Fried on IP valuations,
  
• Avaya's Mohamad Ali on digesting Nortel,
• GE's Duncan O'Brien on GE Capital lending and the company's M&A strategy,
  
• AlixPartners' Steve Deedy on retail bankruptcies,
  
• Weil Gotshal's Harvey Miller on resolution authority and on unwinding Lehman Brothers

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