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I've spent the past two days in airports and on airplanes. I was hoping to write my MBA Mondays post for today on the flight yesterday. But there was no wifi or power. I punted and watched VCU beat Kansas [...]  Read more

Yet another post in the M&A Issues series. This one is about timing, ie how long it should take from the first serious conversation about a sale transaction until the closing. I've seen acquisitions done in a week. I've seen [...]  Read more

We continue our discussion of M&A Issues this week on MBA Mondays. Today we are going to talk about the "stay package." When a company acquires your business, they are buying the people as much as anything. Experience has shown [...]  Read more

This is a followup post from yesterday's one on RSS. Two things I want to add. There is now an RSS feed just for MBA Mondays. It is available in the AVC RSS page. But for all of you who [...]  Read more

It is Monday so it is time for another MBA Mondays post. We are a few weeks into a series on mergers and acquisitions. The first week we covered the basics of mergers and acquisitions. Last week we talked about [...]  Read more

I've gotten a number of suggestions about turning MBA Mondays (including the amazing comments from all of you) into a textbook. That's not going to happen. I don't want to publish these MBA posts in yesterday's technology. I want to [...]  Read more

MBA Mondays are back after a week hiatus. We are several posts into a series on Merger and Acquisitions. In our last post, we talked about the key characteristics of mergers and acquisitions. And we touched on the two kinds [...]  Read more

We had a bunch of questions about vesting in the comments to last week’s MBA Mondays post. So this post is going to be about vesting. Vesting is the technique used to allow employees to earn their equity over time. [...]  Read more