A Giant Cow-Tipping by Savages: The Boom, Bust, and Boom Culture of M&A, Close, John Weir

from ceg045

I received "A Giant Cow-Tipping by Savages" as part of a Goodreads giveaway.Having been born in the mid-to-late 1980s, my big accomplishment of the decade was potty training. Having been a history major and later a non-profit/museum professional, the world of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) was no...

from mattries37315

Beginning in 1981, the business of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) started to change the American and later the world economy. In his book A Giant-Cow Tipping by Savages, John Weir Close attempts to tell the history and the larger-than-life personalities that dominated the M&A industry. However, t...

from loafhunter13

A Giant-Cow-Tipping by Savages is a personal, detailed, inside-ish look at the rise and semi-fall of the Merger and Acquisitions world in corporate America. It covers a lot of ground but the basic idea seems to be to lay the ground work for why this type of business practice became de rigeur in t...

from Judiex

What do some people do when they have so much money, or access to so much money, that they can't buy enough things - houses, jewelry, art, etc.- to make a dent in their capital? In many cases, they buy companies, even if the companies really don't want to be bought. It's like a game of monopoly b...

from ridgeclub

Mr. Close gives a good account of the development of the merger and acquisition industry as it evolved, deal by deal, from the eighties through the present. The deals follow a similar pattern: an offer is made, based on some strategic or financial objective for the buyer; an auction ensues as o...