Making Mergers and Acquisitions Work: From Strategy and Target Selection to Post Merger Integration - Hardcover

Markus Venzin is Full Professor of Global Strategy at the Management and Technology Department of Bocconi University. He sharpened his international academic profile as well as his managerial leadership skills as the Founder and long-time Director of the Master of Science in International Management program at Bocconi University, where he has served as Director of the Strategy and Entrepreneurship Department and, subsequently, Director of the "Claudio Dematté" Research Division at SDA Bocconi. He participated in numerous international conferences and has held visiting positions and teaching assignments at the Università della Svizzera Italiana (Lugano), University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), Fudan University (Shanghai), Copenhagen Business School, Essec (Paris), ESADE (Barcelona), WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, University of St. Gallen, SMU (Singapore), FGV (Sao Paulo), Stockholm School of Economics, USC (Columbia). Markus obtained his PhD in Strategy and Organization from the University of St. Gallen and has since worked as a strategist in the manufacturing industry. He also founded his own consulting firm, and serves as a member of supervisory and advisory boards of several multinational firms.

Matteo Vizzaccaro serves as SDA Bocconi Assistant Professor – Accounting, Control, Corporate and Real Estate Finance Department. Prior to joining SDA Bocconi, he worked as a consultant in an accounting firm, mainly dealing with themes related to M&A, firm evaluation and business planning. He was Research Fellow at CReSV (Center for Sustainability and Value Creation of Università Commerciale L. Bocconi). He has published on M&A, internationalization, business restructuring and entrepreneurship in Italy. Matteo also teaches Financial Markets and Institutions at Bocconi University. He is obtaining his PhD in Management and Innovation from Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan.