Traditional forms of expertise are increasingly challenged in different domains, not least because of the possibilities offered by the spread of the Internet. We aim to understand how a claim to alternative expertise in the investment domain emerged, developed, and propagated, taking advantage...

This paper is a short summary of my DBA thesis proposal which was submitted to Henley Business School in 2009. The content covered in this paper stems from my experience as an M&A professional at one of the global transaction advisory firms. As a contribution in the new book of European Business...

No company, just like no nation, is an island in cyberspace; the actions of actors from hacktivists to nation states have the potential to impact the bottom line, along with the human rights of consumers and the public writ large. To help meet the multi-faceted challenges replete in a rapidly...

This paper is focused on cultural due diligence as a tool to handle the changes related to a merger and acquisition process. The main goal is to provide a framework to handle the whole merger process in a proactive perspective to managing changing. For a due diligence to be strategic in the...

Effective portfolio managers recognize that not all returns are created equally. Investment strategies can deliver returns that are the result of systematic (market or beta) exposures, nonsystematic (skill or alpha) exposures, and random variation. The relative proportions of alpha, beta, and...

Both authors have bought and sold several businesses, and here they explain the process in simple, easy-to-follow steps that cover all the basics such as market, products, insurance facilities, assets and short and long term liabilities