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Hostile deals on rise, Conference Board warns (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Of course, the people at the Conference Board aren't the only ones saying so. But they do have their own particular angle.The blue-chip corporate best-practices club takes up the topic of unsolicited takeover offers in the fifth installment in a series of reports on "The role of the board in...

Posted on June 25, 2009 11:45 AM

Corp dev take note: Big deals on the horizon? (from Corporate Dealmaker)

I spent an interesting Thursday morning at the Conference Board's annual post-merger integration meeting in New York, speaking on a panel and hearing a couple of good presentations by Clayton Deutsch, who led the conference for sponsor McKinsey & Co., and Moni Miyashita, who leads the M&A integration operation at...

Posted on May 29, 2009 2:44 PM

Talking integration at Conference Board confab (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Post-merger integration has been one of our favorite topics since we started Corporate Dealmaker because, well, how could it not be? We've written about integration best practices at companies ranging from Cisco Systems Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO) to IBM Corp. (NYSE:IBM) to Cemex SAB de CV to Reuters plc, now part of...

Posted on May 27, 2009 2:08 PM

Takeaways from Conference Board corp dev meeting (from Corporate Dealmaker)

It was an informative Wednesday at the Conference Board corporate development conference in New York, which runs through noon Thursday. Below are some bullet points on how the world looks to panelists on the first of several sessions, nearly all of them corp dev execs from large companies. On the...

Posted on April 23, 2009 9:35 AM

Good corp dev conference in NY this week (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Among other things, helping companies succeed in the deal economy (to quote our tagline, above) means keeping corporate dealmakers informed about chances to meet and learn from their peers.One of the best opportunities of the year to do both is coming up in New York this week. It's the Conference...

Posted on April 20, 2009 3:11 PM

Ditched deal by Eads shows tenor of times in boardroom (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Louis Gallois, CEO of European Aeronautic Defence and Space Co. NV -- the parent of Airbus -- says the group recently pulled out of a significant U.S. defense acquisition in order to preserve cash. We're looking into who the target might have been and may have more later on Pipeline....

Posted on January 13, 2009 11:21 AM

The price of gum and other valuation vicissitudes (from Corporate Dealmaker)

At a purchase price of $23 billion, Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co., we learned Monday, is worth 32 times expected 2008 earnings to Mars Inc., and somewhat less to Warren Buffett. His Berkshire Hathaway Inc. gets to buy a 10%-plus equity stake in Wrigley at a discount (surprise, surprise), though we...

Posted on April 29, 2008 12:28 PM

Emerging markets insight from Conference Board panel (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Now that the BRIC countries are well established as dealmaking destinations, which countries are next? That was one of the polling questions put to an audience of 100 or so dealmakers from multinational companies at the Conference Board Business Development Conference in New York Friday morning. The winner was Vietnam,...

Posted on April 25, 2008 1:53 PM

Conference Board biz dev conference in NY Thursday (from Corporate Dealmaker)

The Conference Board convenes its 2008 Business Development Conference in New York Thursday and Friday. If you haven't arranged to attend, well, maybe you should have.It's sponsored by Ernst & Young, which knows the business development world well, and features some timely topics as well as some hardy perennials. In...

Posted on April 23, 2008 10:39 AM

Webcast: China's economic outlook (from Corporate Dealmaker)

The Conference Board is hosting a paid Webcast on Tuesday on China's economic outlook. Among the speakers is Pieter Bottelier, professor of China studies, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.Topics include the effect of rapid growth and economic imbalances on the competitive environment facing...

Posted on February 25, 2008 4:24 PM