Mergers and Acquisitions: CEO Leadership and Board Dynamics

Mergers and Acquisitions: CEO Leadership and Board Dynamics, available at $39.99, has an average rating of 4.25, with 51 lectures, based on 11 reviews, and has 128 subscribers.

You will learn about Move beyond the superficial: Why conventional explanations of failed acquisitions do not go far enough Business Momentum: Understand the Institutional Imperative and why it makes bad deals inevitable Incentives: Why CEO remuneration makes the problem worse Performance Measurement: Why Yard Sticks of Success are inappropriate and don't work Behavioural Economics: The real reasons CEOs make bad decisions Investment Banking Advice: Why you have to Wake Up to Wall Street How to Make Successful Acquisitions: How the Berkshire Hathaway System Works How to correctly measure acquisition success: Better Measures of Success you should use As a Gift of Knowledge to you, I have made the first 8 lectures free to help you This course is ideal for individuals who are Business Owners and CEOs who are considering making an acquisitions or Investment Bankers and Advisers who guide their clients on Mergers and Acquisitions or Finance Professionals seeking to move into Investment Banking and Finance careers or Investors and Fund Managers who need to better understand the destructive impact of poor acquisition deals It is particularly useful for Business Owners and CEOs who are considering making an acquisitions or Investment Bankers and Advisers who guide their clients on Mergers and Acquisitions or Finance Professionals seeking to move into Investment Banking and Finance careers or Investors and Fund Managers who need to better understand the destructive impact of poor acquisition deals.

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Title: Mergers and Acquisitions: CEO Leadership and Board Dynamics

Price: $39.99

Average Rating: 4.25

Number of Lectures: 51

Number of Published Lectures: 51

Number of Curriculum Items: 51

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 51

Original Price: $89.99

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What You Will Learn

Move beyond the superficial: Why conventional explanations of failed acquisitions do not go far enough
Business Momentum: Understand the Institutional Imperative and why it makes bad deals inevitable
Incentives: Why CEO remuneration makes the problem worse
Performance Measurement: Why Yard Sticks of Success are inappropriate and don't work
Behavioural Economics: The real reasons CEOs make bad decisions
Investment Banking Advice: Why you have to Wake Up to Wall Street
How to Make Successful Acquisitions: How the Berkshire Hathaway System Works
How to correctly measure acquisition success: Better Measures of Success you should use
As a Gift of Knowledge to you, I have made the first 8 lectures free to help you

Who Should Attend

Business Owners and CEOs who are considering making an acquisitions
Investment Bankers and Advisers who guide their clients on Mergers and Acquisitions
Finance Professionals seeking to move into Investment Banking and Finance careers
Investors and Fund Managers who need to better understand the destructive impact of poor acquisition deals

Target Audiences

Business Owners and CEOs who are considering making an acquisitions
Investment Bankers and Advisers who guide their clients on Mergers and Acquisitions
Finance Professionals seeking to move into Investment Banking and Finance careers
Investors and Fund Managers who need to better understand the destructive impact of poor acquisition deals

Welcome to Why Acquisitions REALLY fail!

Are you ready to discover why so many corporations and CEOs get it so wrong!

Make sure that you watch the Free Preview Lectures (first 8 course lectures) of this course!

This course will provide you with an in depth framework which you can apply to any acquisition or M&A transaction – this goes well beyond the conventional excuses of overpayment or bad management

With over 30 years of M&A experience, I am sharing knowledge with you that you will not be taught in Business School!

This unwraps this problem layer by layer moving beyond superficial explanations.

We consider the impact of:

Business Momentum
Ill Judged Incentivisation
Inappropriate Performance Measurement
Behavioural Economics and Psychology
Skewed Investment Banking Advice

We also consider theRIGHT way to make acquisitions following theBerkshire Hathaway Model and we propose more appropriate measures of acquisition success and performance.

“The most important investment you can make is in yourself.”

In this course you will discover:

Move beyond the superficial: Why conventional explanations of failed acquisitions do not go far enough
Business Momentum: Understand the Institutional Imperative and why it makes bad deals inevitable
Incentives: Why CEO remuneration makes the problem worse
Performance Measurement: Why Yard Sticks of Success are inappropriate and don’t work
Behavioural Economics: The real reasons CEOs make bad decisions
Investment Banking Advice: Why you have to Wake Up to Wall Street
How to Make Successful Acquisitions: How the Berkshire Hathaway System Works
How to correctly measure acquisition success: Better Measures of Success you should use

“The best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more”

Charlie Munger, Billionaire and Vice Chairman Berkshire Hathaway

By the end of the course not only will you have a clear in depth understanding of this complex issue

You will also have a proven framework for making successful acquisitions

There are no pre-requisites or requirements to enroll but just come with an open mind and be ready to immerse yourself in a rewarding, easy to follow, instructive experience.

What makes us qualified to teach you?

This is a Finance course taught by a 30+ year, Managing Director level, Investment Banker – from a practical perspective – I also have an MBA (with Distinction).

Over 101,000 students have enrolled in my Udemy courses, this is what one of them said about this course:

” I like the course and the approach of Sir John Colley. I believe I shall be able to achieve what I want through this course. I am looking forward to deeper and great understanding of the subject as this course will help me to make a career in Credit Analysis” R.R. Five Star

Our Promise

I have been teaching on Udemy since 2014 and am fully committed to it. If you have any questions about the content or anything related to any topic, you can reach out with your questions at any time and I always do my best to respond promptly

Don’t forget that this course (and all my courses) benefit from Udemy’s money back guarantee!

A Verifiable Certificate of Completion is presented to all students who undertake this finance course.

So enroll today!

We look forward to welcoming you to the course!

Best regards

John

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Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Why Do Acquisitions Fail Course Introduction

Lecture 2: "Dumb Acquisitions"

Lecture 3: Why Acquisitions Fail – The Fundamental Problem

Chapter 2: What is the Conventional Response to this question?

Lecture 1: Reasons for Failure – Cause or Effect?

Lecture 2: Reasons for Failure – Summary of Excuses

Lecture 3: What do we mean by Failure or Success?

Chapter 3: The Institutional Imperative

Lecture 1: It all starts with the CEO

Lecture 2: Understanding the Institutional Imperative

Lecture 3: The Part played by Boards of Directors

Lecture 4: Do CEO’s Love the Money Or The Business?

Lecture 5: What are the TWO key roles of a CEO?

Lecture 6: The CEO Purchasing Frenzy

Chapter 4: How are CEO's Remunerated?

Lecture 1: Who do CEO's Work For?

Lecture 2: The Importance of Incentives

Lecture 3: Charlie Munger on The Superpower of Incentives

Lecture 4: The Importance and Scandal of Share Options

Chapter 5: What is the Yard Stick of Success?

Lecture 1: Is EPS a good measure of financial success?

Lecture 2: Management and Market Prices

Lecture 3: How to Grow EPS while doing nothing?

Chapter 6: Why CEOs make Bad Decisions

Lecture 1: Charlie Munger's and the Psychology of Human Misjudgement

Lecture 2: Doubt Avoidance

Lecture 3: Inconsistency Avoidance

Lecture 4: Pain-Avoiding Psychological Denial

Lecture 5: Excessive Self Regard

Lecture 6: Deprival Super Reaction

Lecture 7: Social Proof

Lecture 8: Availability Misweighing

Lecture 9: Authority Misinflucence

Lecture 10: Lollapalooza Tendency

Chapter 7: Wake Up to Wall Street

Lecture 1: Wake Up To Wall Street

Lecture 2: Cui Bono?

Lecture 3: Short Term-ism

Lecture 4: Analyst Guidance

Lecture 5: The Role of Investment Banks

Lecture 6: Leveraged Buyouts

Lecture 7: The Consequences for Shareholder Wealth

Chapter 8: The Berkshire Hathaway System

Lecture 1: The Berkshire Hathaway System

Lecture 2: Berkshire Hathaway Acquisition Criteria

Lecture 3: Buyer of Choice

Lecture 4: Market, Book and Intrinsic Value

Lecture 5: Managers as Owners

Lecture 6: Compensation Arrangements

Lecture 7: Some Thoughts on Selling Your Business

Lecture 8: Warren Buffet Gets it Wrong – Dexter Shoes

Chapter 9: Better Measures of Acquisition Success

Lecture 1: Importance of Per Share Intrinsic Value

Lecture 2: The Importance of Return on Capital

Lecture 3: Book Value Per Share

Lecture 4: Understand the Limitations of Accounting

Chapter 10: Summary and Wrap UP

Lecture 1: A final word of Caution

Lecture 2: Summary and Wrap Up

Lecture 3: Bonus Lecture – Learn more from us

Instructors

John Colley
Investment Banking | Business| Entrepreneurship | Finance

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