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And now for something completely different (from Corporate Dealmaker)

A change in jobs, and more so in industries, tends to provoke a questionfor those in corporate development: Are my skills transferable?

Posted on December 15, 2007 2:04 PM

A shout-out to PE, condolence-lite (from Corporate Dealmaker)

It's hard to blame the buyout crowd for using all that cheap debt. It's also easy to be glad they'll have to stop for a while.

Posted on October 15, 2007 9:23 AM

Always be closing (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Time is the enemy of deals -- for hard-luck cold callers and big-league corp dev executives alike.

Posted on August 15, 2007 7:14 PM

Shhh! (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Dealmakers tend to be clever people who like to talk. But the really smart ones also know how to listen.

Posted on June 15, 2007 4:17 PM

Prisoners of process (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Much as it pains me to admit it, every company needs some bureaucratic processes to function effectively. I'm happy my paycheck arrives, error-free, in my account every other Friday, and it's good that we don't need fists and clubs to sort out conference room scheduling. I could even accept...

Posted on April 15, 2007 8:34 AM

Calendar tyranny (from Corporate Dealmaker)

It takes a long time to know whether a deal was a good idea - but try explaining that during an annual review.

Posted on February 15, 2007 1:52 AM

The devil's deep water (from Corporate Dealmaker)

If you've ever made the 90-mile drive from Santa Barbara to Los Angeles, you'll know the route requires two very different soundtracks: The first, shorter stretch, heading south on the Ventura Highway, hard against the Pacific, demands surf music -- sharp, bouncy and 100% thought-free. Turning east and heading...

Posted on December 15, 2006 10:49 PM

Mapping the deal community (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Michael Frankel may be only 35, but he's seen dealmaking from just about every vantage: as a lawyer at Skadden Arps, as an i-banker at Merrill Lynch and as a corporate development vice president and then general manager at VeriSign Inc. Those experiences - combined with a knack for...

Posted on February 15, 2004 4:49 PM