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Harvard Business Review on Mergers & Acquisitions
by Dennis Carey, Robert J. Aiello, Michael D. Watkins, Robert G. Eccles, Alfred Rappaport
from Harvard Business School Press
Customer Reviews:
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Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 
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Outdated; should not be sold anymore 
I don't think this is a bad collection of articles. However, its contents are no longer relevant today. The book opens with the announced merger of AOL and Time Warner, hailing it as a great development. We now know how spectacularly that deal collapsed. The article then continues with a discussion of how M&A is 'different' in the internet age, and how this justifies ever larger takeover sums. Worldcom is then given as an example; another icon of the excesses of the internet boom that imploded.... more info
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Useful 
A good review of some old classics. The articles are helpful in building a strong foundation in the subject.
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Next best thing . . .
. . . to hanging around with a bunch of practicioners swapping war stories and advise/wisedom/opinion. As the other reviewer said, the advise is at times contradictory, which is exactly what you get from talking to the professionals who do this all the time. There are some thing which everyone agrees on, and much of the rest is personal style.
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Good insights - lacks continuity - falls short 
This book has a a few very informative articles/chapters. It virtually covers the entire M&A continuum from deal strategy through post merger integration. It has a fatal flaw however due to its format and that is a lack of consistency from one section to the next. By jumping from one author to another, the reader is subjected to guidance that is often contradicted or not considered a few chapters later by another author. That is why I prefer books offering guidance on the subject from a thoughtleader or... more info
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