Author(s): Wayne Holland, Cass Business School, Alzira Salama, Cavendish College
The case study describes and explains the successful integration strategy designed and implemented by a German bank's top executives when an American Bank was acquired in 1999.
Updated: 06/09/2010 | Comments: 0 | Rating: Not yet rated | Views: 444
Author(s): Professor Joe Lampel is interviewed by Dr Ajay Bhalla
Joseph Lampel, is Professor of Strategy at, and one of the "leading stars" of, Cass Business School. Senior Lecturer in Information and Knowledge Management. This is a video Q and A with Professor Joe Lampel conducted by Dr Ajay Bhalla. Both are Cass Experts. Inculded is the transcript and a summary of the key points.
Updated: 05/09/2010 | Comments: 0 | Rating: 4/5 | Total ratings: 5 | Views: 1137 | 
Author(s): Roger Steare, Visiting Professor of Organisational Ethics, Cass Business School
Roger Steare is Visiting Professor of Organisational Ethics at Cass. In this multimedia presentation he introduces the ethicability® framework.
Updated: 04/09/2010 | Comments: 0 | Rating: 3/5 | Total ratings: 2 | Views: 641
As recently as twenty years ago, partnership was the pre-eminent form of governance in most major professional sectors. But in the 1980s the incidence of partnership began to decline in areas such as accounting, management consulting, actuarial consulting, and investment banking, to the extent that most major consulting firms and almost all investment banks are now organised as privately-held or publicly-quoted corporations.
Updated: 01/09/2010 | Comments: 0 | Rating: Not yet rated | Views: 191
Mergers and acquisitions are supposed to create value. For professional service firms (PSFs), which are knowledge-based organizations, this value is created through gaining access to and making effective use of new sources of knowledge. It can be the technical knowledge needed to deliver a professional service or the client knowledge required to tailor that service to a client’s needs – and ideally it should be both.
Updated: 06/09/2010 | Comments: 0 | Rating: Not yet rated | Views: 217
