Big Deal

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Since the publication of Bruce Wasserstein's seminal Business Wfee/c bestseller BIG DEAL, an explosion of megamergers and acquisitions has rocked Wall Street. With advancing technology and stockpiles of cash fueling the frenzy, the corporate landscape is changing overnight. This new edition of BIG DEAL tells you where the trends are going and why deal-making In the new millennium Is creating the biggest and most profitable businesses.
DEAL
Chrysler-Daimler .Travelers-Salomon-Citicorp NYNEX-Bell Atlantic Ten years ago even the most visionary Wall Streeter could not have predicted the megamergers of the late 1990s. Analyzing the forces that made these mergers not only possible but inevitable, Wassersteln now presents a fascinating, colorful overview of the history of corporate mergers and buyouts from the roaring '20s to the current era.
A veteran of over one thousand corporate deals and a man who knows today's biggest players personally, from Barry Dlller to Sumner Redstone,... Tovább

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Since the publication of Bruce Wasserstein's seminal Business Wfee/c bestseller BIG DEAL, an explosion of megamergers and acquisitions has rocked Wall Street. With advancing technology and stockpiles of cash fueling the frenzy, the corporate landscape is changing overnight. This new edition of BIG DEAL tells you where the trends are going and why deal-making In the new millennium Is creating the biggest and most profitable businesses.
DEAL
Chrysler-Daimler .Travelers-Salomon-Citicorp NYNEX-Bell Atlantic Ten years ago even the most visionary Wall Streeter could not have predicted the megamergers of the late 1990s. Analyzing the forces that made these mergers not only possible but inevitable, Wassersteln now presents a fascinating, colorful overview of the history of corporate mergers and buyouts from the roaring '20s to the current era.
A veteran of over one thousand corporate deals and a man who knows today's biggest players personally, from Barry Dlller to Sumner Redstone, Wassersteln moves from the historical to the human dramas behind the headlines. He asks, and answers, the important questions that every financial watcher^— and Investor—needs to know. Are companies overpaying for their corporate acquisitions? What's the Impact of the rise in Internet stock prices and the boom In IPOs? And, In assessing the big picture, Wassersteln makes a persuasive argument that the explosion of corporate alliances will have an effect as dramatic as the industrial revolution.
BIG DEAL Is a masterful Journey through the fascinating world of big business. Entertaining and illuminating from beginning to end, it explains why today's mergers
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and acquisitions change not only the way we do business, but the way we live.
Bruce Wasserstein is the chairman and CEO of Wasserstein Perella Co. A graduate of the University of Michigan, he entered Harvard Law School at nineteen and graduated from both the Law School and Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar with high distinctions, and then from Cambridge University, where he was a Knox Fellow. He worked as a lawyer at Cravath, Swaine Moore, and was co-head of investment banking at First Boston before starting his own firm In 1988. He lives in New York City with his wife, Claude, an Emmy Award-winning film producer and journalist, and his four children. His sister Wendy is a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright. Vissza