Core Insights: Strategy
After the success of 'Leading Through COVID-19' and the dedicated channel to Behavioural Science Warwick Business School's Core Insights editorial team bring expert advice and knowhow on Strategy to help businesses and organisations. Bringing you the leading academics from Warwick Business School, this podcast series will reveal the latest research and thinking from world-class Professors detailing how Apple do strategy, how to exploit luck, the new open strategy vogue and more.
Core Insights: Strategy
How to transform a corporation through mergers and acquisitions
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Warwick Business School
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Season 2
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Episode 3
In 1999 Dow Chemical decided to embark on one of the most ambitious transformations in US corporate history. It decided to pivot from low-margin chemicals into high-margin speciality chemicals and embarked on the acquisition of 138 companies, enter 122 joint ventures and unravel 156 divestitures. Koen Heimeriks, Professor of Strategy, has studied the journey and reveals to Core Insights host Trevor Barnes the lessons learned and the tools needed for others to transform their business successfully.
Read more on corporate transformation from Professor Heimeriks here.