Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Why mergers in higher ed?
  • Mergers in higher education : pursuing sustainability, breadth, and excellence through scale
  • Why mergers now?
  • Mergers as an organizational tactic
  • Mergers in higher education : history and global experience
  • Drivers and categories of mergers in higher education
  • Success and failure : predictors and metrics
  • Increasing the odds of merger success in higher ed
  • The seven essential elements for merger success
  • Evaluating the stakes when considering mergers
  • Finding, evaluating, and choosing merger partners
  • Negotiating the merger
  • Increasing the odds of success: leadership, resources, and managing
  • Opposition
  • Effectively executing merges in higher ed
  • Increasing the odds of success : leadership, resources, and managing opposition
  • Merging organizational entities in a context-sensitive manner
  • Managing institutional legal, corporate, and regulatory obligations in a
  • Merger
  • Project management ... as if your institution's future depended on it
  • Creating and managing the brand : who do you want to be?
  • Aftermath : as much a beginning as an end
  • Looking to the future
  • The role of mergers in institutional strategy.