Integration

Prof. Duncan Angwin and Prof. Stephen Cummings
Required Core Course
Spring -- 0.5 credit
 
The objectives for this integration session are for students to experience the entire M&A process. In attempting to deal with the task, they will need to draw upon most aspects of their MBA studies. In this way the course is integrative of the MBA program.

Topics to be discussed include deal origination, planning, due diligence, valuation, contract drafting, negotiation, business integration, team skills, leadership and interaction analysis.

Mergers and acquisitions is a rich interdisciplinary area and a very useful topic for an integration session. To follow the M&A process is to engage in most classical parts of an MBA program such as finance, economics, law, organisational behaviour, operations management, psychology. In this integration session, participants will act as investment bankers charged with purchasing a company for a large client. As this is the first deal of this kind for the client, they give the investment bank carte blanche in transacting this deal. The quality of the deal is therefore down to the skill shown by the participants in this simulation.

NB: This course is not open to exchange students.