Deals from Hell

Foreword by Arhur Levitt, Jr.

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction.

Part 1 - The foundation of M&A failure

2. Where M&A pays and where it strays: a survey of research
3. Profiling the outlying M&A deals
4. Real disasters and M&A failure

Part 2 - Case studies of M&A failure

5. February 1968: Merger of the Pennsylvania and New York Central Railroads
6. December 1986: The leveraged buyout of Revco Drug Stores
7. September 1989: The acquisition of Columbia pictures by Sony Corporation
8. September 1991: The Acquisition of NCR Corporation by AT&T Corporation
9. December 1993: Renault's proposed Merger with Volvo
10. December 1994: The acquisition of Snapple by Quaker Oats
11. May 1999: Mattel's acquisition of The Learning Company
12. January 2001: Merger of AOL and Time Warner
13. December 2001: Dynegy's Proposed merger with Enron
14. January 2002: Acquisition program of Tyco International

Part 3 - Avoiding the deal from hell

15. Conclusions and implications
16. Memo to th eCEO: a coda on growth

References
About the author
Index