M&as and Corporate Strategy

Build your growth capabilities

Building a successful company means knowing how to define your corporate strategy and choosing the best growth options. But it’s not easy. Growth can be hard to achieve, expensive, and can destroy value. You need to understand the challenges involved in driving growth through external means, such as alliances or acquisitions, and the strategies that will empower your firm to resolve these challenges.

The M&As and Corporate Strategy programme fully leverages the latest in faculty research and thought leadership. Together with next-generation teaching and learning methodologies, it delivers a solid understanding of portfolio growth and restructuring, M&As and divestitures, as well as alliances. You will explore the key issues through deep analysis and real-world case studies from a breadth of industries, including financial services, telecommunications and IT, chemicals and manufacturing.

How you benefit

• Portfolio examination. Define your optimal portfolio of businesses, as well as the right mix of internal and external growth
• Preparation for an M&A. Enhance your M&A capabilities through the development of a disciplined and holistic process for acquiring and integrating new resources and skills
• Post-M&A counseling. Design a post-M&A integration approach that fits strategic objectives, while also taking into account human constraints

Content Overview

The M&As and Corporate Strategy programme has been built on the thought leadership developed at INSEAD in corporate strategy and M&As. Through lectures, interactive case studies, small-group projects and experience-sharing workshops you will be equipped with a set of frameworks, practical tools and world-class peer contacts that will make you better prepared to tackle the critical issues concerning M&As and corporate strategy.

Evaluate your portfolio options

Evaluate your business portfolio and determine the appropriate businesses to acquire, restructure or divest.

Select the right acquisitions

Select acquisition targets that fill your capability gaps and fit with your corporate strategy.

Capture value in acquisitions

Evaluate acquisition opportunities by quantifying the value of the acquisition targets.

Manage acquisitions and alliances

Understand and choose different integration approaches for different acquisition targets.