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The UK must refocus its efforts to attract investment post-Brexit, but here’s why it’s still ‘open for business’.
To complete his deal, Elon Musk now needs the nod from a majority of Twitter’s shareholders and US corporate regulators.
Twitter adopted a so-called poison pill to make it much harder for Musk to take over the company.
Big mergers are hugely complex, and not always popular with shareholders.
A handful of banks now dominate the US financial sector. This consolidation has resulted in higher costs for consumers and small businesses and put the economy at greater risk of a financial crisis.
Plus a new technique to protect birds from predators – using fake smells. Listen to episode 10 of The Conversation Weekly podcast.
Combine years of ludicrous leverage and the pandemic collapse, and many companies are living on borrowed time.
The T-Mobile-Sprint merger is the latest example of weakened enforcement of antitrust laws, which reduces competition and exacerbates already-record levels of inequality.
Research shows how decision making by investors is affected by the one-hour clock change.
Competition policy in Australia is undermined by not knowing if it is right to let the vast majority of corporate mergers go ahead.
Sainsbury’s faces tough times ahead following the blocking of its merger with Asda.
It’s a bold move from outgoing Pepsico CEO Indra Nooyi.
Australian companies have been employing many and varied takeover defences this year, including some that defy convention.
Papa John’s is hoping to use the corporate strategy to prevent founder John Schnatter from taking back control over the pizza chain.
Comcast and Disney’s bidding war for Sky can only be justified by the outside threat of Amazon and Netflix.
A scholar of the media business tries to make sense of the flurry of merger news lately, and why the contested tie-up between AT&T and Time Warner will profoundly reshape the American media landscape.
Facing stiff competition, the obvious solution is for Sainsbury’s and Asda to grow their customer base and revenues, while cutting their margins, through a merger.
In 2017 the US retail giant Amazon spent nearly $14 billion to acquire the Whole Foods Market grocery chain. What are the motivations behind this acquisition and who will be the winners and losers?
Labels for boutique beers made by giant corporations may give the impression that a tiny craft brewery slapped them on the bottles. That confusion is by design.
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Professor of Practice, Associate Dean, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
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Emeritus Professor of Accounting, University of Essex, University of Essex
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Associate Professor of Finance, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Bayes Business School, City, University of London
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Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Associate Dean (Teaching), Director of the Glendonbrook Institute for Enterprise Development, Loughborough University
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Professor of Finance, International Institute for Management Development (IMD)
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Professor, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne
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ARC Future Fellow 2012-2016, School of Business, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Banking and Finance, Monash University
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Associate Professor, College of Business and Economics, Australian National University
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Lecturer, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor, Corporate Law, University of Sydney Business School, University of Sydney
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ARC Research Fellow, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor in Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Strategy, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor, UNSW Sydney
