Discover how horizontal integration can grow your business through mergers, acquisitions, and expansions to increase market share and competitive advantage within the same industry.

We develop a search-based theory of mergers and acquisitions with heterogeneous firms and endogenous search complementarities. We use this model to understand how merger incentives and the firm size ...

Cross-market mergers — transactions between health systems operating in separate geographic regions — are becoming a more prominent trend in hospital consolidation as organizations continue to shift ...

Most mergers are engineered for efficiency. Systems are aligned, redundancies eliminated, and structures combined. Yet despite careful planning, most mergers fail to deliver on their strategic promise ...

Honda and Nissan have taken the first formal step towards this transformative alliance by signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). This agreement initiates six months of in-depth discussions and ...

A stock-for-stock merger occurs when shares of one company are traded for another during an acquisition. Shareholders can trade the shares of the target company for shares in the acquiring firm's ...