Most mergers don't fail on strategy — they fail in the first 100 days when leaders avoid hard decisions around culture, ownership and what the new company will actually become.

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics 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 ...

An accretive acquisition increases the earnings per share (EPS) of the acquiring company. A company can use an accretive ...