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The power of goodbye: How carve-outs can unleash value
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Separations can be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to create value for the remaining and separated companies. The secret? Get granular about support costs and personal about talent.
On Portfolio Management
Article - McKinsey Quarterly
Why you’ve got to put your portfolio on the move
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We analyzed hundreds of companies, worldwide, across a decade-long business cycle. The conclusion? Winners change their business mix, year after year. Laggards sit still.
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Active portfolio management: Interview with Andy West
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Senior partner Andy West discusses the latest trends in M&A in light of several recent high-profile divestitures.
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Understanding how US tax reform will affect divestitures
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Lower rates will motivate companies to consider selling assets that lack scale for spinning off, and will make some complex deal structures less attractive.
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Should assessing financial similarity be part of your corporate portfolio strategy?
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Businesses with different financial profiles can tax managers and put performance at risk. When divesting isn’t an option, here’s how to manage the conflicts.
On Deciding to Divest
Article - McKinsey Quarterly
The power of goodbye: How carve-outs can unleash value
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Separations can be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to create value for the remaining and separated companies. The secret? Get granular about support costs and personal about talent.
Article - McKinsey Quarterly
When bigger isn’t always better
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The recent spate of spin-off announcements reveals the limits of diversification as well as some of the potential value-creating benefits of separations.
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Divesting with agility
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Research shows that active, efficient reallocation of resources creates better returns for companies than simply standing pat does. Here’s how to make portfolio decisions faster.
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What’s keeping you from divesting?
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Active portfolio management can create significant competitive advantages. Still, executives routinely shy away from separations. Here are six common roadblocks and some tips for breaking through.
On Executing Divestitures
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Fix them first: Executing regulation-driven separations
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A better understanding of the remedies that antitrust regulators may hand down in a large merger or acquisition could help executives improve their management of such deals.
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Achieving win-win spin-offs
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By acknowledging and addressing four factors relating to execution and operations, ParentCo can separate from SpinCo in a way that creates value for both.
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Three degrees of separation: How to successfully execute divestitures
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The seller’s focus on three key interrelated activities—defining, marketing, and disentangling—can help expedite the transfer of divested assets and increase total deal value.
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Through a different lens: A McKinsey perspective on separations
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To succeed, companies need to view divestitures in a way that goes beyond the traditional M&A approaches.