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  1. How to Merge Corporate Cultures
    Inc. Magazine

    Culture clash is too often a scapegoat when mergers go wrong, says Joe Aberger, the president of Pritchett, a strategy firm that specializes in mergers and corporate culture and is headquartered in Dallas. Factoring it into the preparations for the merger helps avoid scapegoating.

    http://www.inc.com/guides/201105/how-to-merge-corporate-cultures.html

     

  2. Google's Motorola Breakup Fee

    Breakup fees are standard with mergers and acquisitions to protect the target company in case the deal falls off the table, says Joe Aberger, president of Pritchett, a Dallas-based mergers and acquisitions advisory firm.

    http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/583355/201108311527/Google-Breakup-Fee-Near-Record.aspx

     

  3. As Change Accelerates, Include Employees in the Overall Change Management Process 

    It starts with executives. They have to let the workforce know that change is coming or is already here, says Price Pritchett, CEO of Dallas-based consulting firm PRITCHETT  and author of more than 25 books on organizational change.

    http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3495/is_5_52/ai_n19170722/

     

  4. DPL Unlikely to be Ready for Shareholder Vote in Mid-July

    “Public utilities are a highly regulated industry, which tends to make the whole deal process move more sluggishly,” said Price Pritchett, a Dallas consultant on mergers who has advised energy companies and others involved in corporate unions.

    http://www.daytondailynews.com/business/experts-say-dpl-unlikely-to-be-ready-for-shareholder-vote-in-mid-july-1186422.html

     

  5. How to Deal with Change – An Interview with Dr Price Pritchett, CEO of PRITCHETT

    Price Pritchett, PhD has spent nearly 30 years as an advisor on merger and integration strategies to senior management in Fortune 500 companies and other organizations and is the author of the best-selling Employee Guide to Mergers and Acquisitions. Dr Pritchett talks about change in the workplace, and how to successfully deal with change.

    http://acscareers.wordpress.com/2010/04/04/how-to-deal-with-change-an-interview-with-dr-price-pritchett/

     

  6. Mergers and Acquisition Work Explodes

    A variety of factors are contributing to the boost, which Dallas- based Pritchett LP President Joe Aberger said is up globally over this time last year by about 25 percent, both in volume and in deal amount. Pritchett LP specializes in integrating companies' operations post-merger.

    "There's a lot of cash on the sidelines right now," Aberger said. "The 1,000 largest companies have about $3 trillion in cash."

    http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4180/is_20101020/ai_n56126452/

     

  7. M&As: Then and Now

    If the saying holds true that the past is prologue, we should expect deal-making to come in waves throughout the 21st century. The economy, as always, will have its ups and downs. Major shocks will hit the business world, and some of these myriad disruptions will produce bursts of M&A activity. As the surges gradually subside, they will in turn be followed by lulls in deal-making.

    http://www.thehumanfactor.in/01092011/storyd.asp?sid=1396&pageno=1