Big deal
Subtitle: mergers and acquisitions in the digital age
By: Bruce Wasserstein
Edition: [Updated ed.].
Publisher: Warner Books
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 927
ISBN-13: 9780446675215
Description: "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.".

"Wasserstein 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, Wasserstein makes a persuasive argument that the explosion of corporate alliances will have an effect as dramatic as the industrial revolution."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Hardcover ed. published under title: Big deal : 2000 and beyond.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 896-901) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1.; title: The Battle for Paramount -- -- 2.; title: History's Shadow -- -- 3.; title: The Rise and Fall of the Conglomerate -- -- 4.; title: The Deal Decade: Early Years -- -- 5.; title: Troubled Years -- -- 6.; title: The Merits of Mergers: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly -- -- 7.; title: The Strategic Dilemma -- -- 8.; title: The Energy Wars -- -- 9.; title: Metamorphosis: Conglomerates Transformed -- -- 10.; title: Financial Services in the Digital Age -- -- 11.; title: The Telco Revolution -- -- 12.; title: Racing Toward Cyberspace: The Media and the Message -- -- 13.; title: The Tumultuous World of Health Care -- -- 14.; title: A Guide to the Players -- -- 15.; title: The Price -- -- 16.; title: Structuring the Deal -- -- 17.; title: Implementing the Deal-- -- 18.; title: Offense: Battlefield Tactics -- -- 19.; title: Defense: Fight or Sell? -- -- 20.; title: Defense: Building the Battlements-- -- 21.; title: Defense: Battlefield Tactics -- -- 22.; title: The Government Intervenes.