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The Director of Product and Portfolio Management at a F200 biopharmaceutical company needed to replace a team of Big Three consultants who had begun working on the integration of a recent...

The head of M&A at a global pharma company was evaluating an acquisition target based in India. His team had already assessed the company’s core business, but it needed help understanding the...

A PE firm found itself in need of an interim C-level executive during a time of great change—the CEO of its recently integrated $600M travel and hospitality company had left abruptly right after...

When you’re looking to grow, a merger or acquisition deal can be an attractive proposition. But the unfortunate truth is that most mergers and acquisitions fail—anywhere between 70% and 90%,...

Disrupting long-stable industries can be invigorating, but for many of those industries’ incumbent organizations, it’s also a sudden wake-up call. Businesses that are bigger and better-established...

Statistically speaking, most merger integrations fail—between 70% and 90%, according to McKinsey and Harvard Business Review. What’s worse, those numbers are consistent in study after study… and...

Post-merger integration is risky even for the well-prepared. Today’s deals are more complex than ever, and their value is always threatened by turnover, missed targets, and misaligned priorities....

In the data-intensive field of early-stage M&A work, it can be daunting to decide which metrics to focus on. It’s also crucial to your ability to assess opportunities and create plans that truly...

Business Talent Group’s independent consultants can help at all stages of the M&A lifecycle, but one place where they excel is at the start of a deal—or before, as executives seek to validate...

Over the past few years, the life science industry has witnessed unprecedented pharma M&A activity. Both 2015 and 2016 saw a wave of consolidation—driven largely by specialty pharma companies,...

Culture is widely recognized as an integral component of organizational effectiveness. So why does it derail so many mergers and acquisitions?

An acquisition swelled this F500 hospitality giant’s headcount by 50%. The organization was committed to its unique culture, but its HR team was struggling to efficiently integrate the new...

A leading industrial company faced unchartered waters: for the first time, it was making a substantial “carve-out acquisition” from a competitor. The internal acquisition team had only handled...

The Integration team at an acquisitive networking company was looking to reduce its reliance on traditional consulting firms. Yet workflow was uneven, and the Corporate Strategy office did not...