Across the globe, mergers and acquisitions are reshaping the corporate and competitive landscape. To help companies gain a strategic advantage and expand market share, this M&A program takes you inside the process—from strategy and valuation to execution and post-merger management. Whether your company is private or public, or looking to buy or to sell, you will emerge with new ability to broker powerful deals and create shareholder value.
Across the globe, mergers and acquisitions are reshaping the corporate and competitive landscape. To help companies gain a strategic advantage and expand market share, this M&A program takes you inside the process—from strategy and valuation to execution and post-merger management. Whether your company is private or public, or looking to buy or to sell, you will emerge with new ability to broker powerful deals and create shareholder value.
When you participate in an Executive Education program on the HBS campus, you enter an immersive experience where every aspect of the learning model has been carefully designed to facilitate your growth. Your learning will take place on your own, in your living group, and in the larger classroom, driven by the renowned HBS case method.
When you participate in an Executive Education program on the HBS campus, you enter an immersive experience where every aspect of the learning model has been carefully designed to facilitate your growth. Your learning will take place on your own, in your living group, and in the larger classroom, driven by the renowned HBS case method.
This mergers and acquisitions program provides a holistic view of the M&A process—from front-end target selection and search processes to approach strategies and execution to post-merger integration and management. Your rich learning experience will include faculty presentations, global case studies, valuation exercises, negotiation simulations, small group projects, and dynamic discussions.
In the process, you will delve into the challenges and opportunities presented by hedge fund activism, hostile takeovers, cross-border deals, corporate inversions, earn-outs, spin-offs, restructurings, and corporate governance. You also will examine different strategic approaches suited to private versus public companies in developed, emerging, and distressed economies.
This mergers and acquisitions program provides a holistic view of the M&A process—from front-end target selection and search processes to approach strategies and execution to post-merger integration and management. Your rich learning experience will include faculty presentations, global case studies, valuation exercises, negotiation simulations, small group projects, and dynamic discussions.
In the process, you will delve into the challenges and opportunities presented by hedge fund activism, hostile takeovers, cross-border deals, corporate inversions, earn-outs, spin-offs, restructurings, and corporate governance. You also will examine different strategic approaches suited to private versus public companies in developed, emerging, and distressed economies.
Our Executive Education programs are developed and taught by HBS faculty who are widely recognized as skilled educators, groundbreaking researchers, and award-winning authors. Through their board memberships, consulting, and field-based research, they address the complex challenges facing business leaders across the globe.
Guhan Subramanian
H. Douglas Weaver Professor of Business Law, Harvard Business School, and Joseph Flom Professor of Law and Business, Harvard Law School. Member of the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit; and Faculty Chair of "Mergers and Aquisitions."
How mastering negotiation skills can set you apart as a business leader.
David G. Fubini
Senior Lecturer of Business Administration. Member of the Organizational Behavior Unit; and faculty cochair of "Leading Professional Service Firms."
Stuart C. Gilson
Steven R. Fenster Professor of Business Administration. Member of the Finance Unit.
Kevin P. Mohan
Senior Lecturer of Business Administration. Member of the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit.
Meg Rithmire
F. Warren McFarlan Associate Professor of Business Administration. Member of the Business, Government, and International Economy Unit.
Our Executive Education programs are developed and taught by HBS faculty who are widely recognized as skilled educators, groundbreaking researchers, and award-winning authors. Through their board memberships, consulting, and field-based research, they address the complex challenges facing business leaders across the globe.
Guhan Subramanian
H. Douglas Weaver Professor of Business Law, Harvard Business School, and Joseph Flom Professor of Law and Business, Harvard Law School. Member of the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit; and Faculty Chair of "Mergers and Aquisitions."
How mastering negotiation skills can set you apart as a business leader.
David G. Fubini
Senior Lecturer of Business Administration. Member of the Organizational Behavior Unit; and faculty cochair of "Leading Professional Service Firms."
Stuart C. Gilson
Steven R. Fenster Professor of Business Administration. Member of the Finance Unit.
Kevin P. Mohan
Senior Lecturer of Business Administration. Member of the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit.
Meg Rithmire
F. Warren McFarlan Associate Professor of Business Administration. Member of the Business, Government, and International Economy Unit.