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Giving mergers a head start
1Dow's M&A Technology Center, Midland, Michigan, USA.
Harvard Business Review
|October 23, 2002
Abstract:
Mergers with substantial business overlap face a barrier to speedy integration: Antitrust regulations limit the information companies can share before a deal closes. But as Dow Chemical and Union Carbide found, premerger planning by "clean teams" of former employees can help merging companies hit the ground running.