Change Your Shoes initiated this shoe company assessment to get a snapshot of where the shoe industry stands in regard to social sustainability and to provide a resource for consumers on which brands are doing more and which are doing less to combat problems occurring throughout the global...

Introduction -- Getting started -- Working with advisers -- Financial due diligence -- Legal due diligence -- Commercial due diligence -- Human resources due diligence -- Management due diligence -- Pensions due diligence -- Tax due diligence -- Pensions due diligence -- It due diligence --...

With the unchanging high failure rate of M&As, recent research is putting an increasing emphasis on Cultural Due Diligence (CDD) and socio-cultural Post-Merger Integration (PMI) Management. Nevertheless, the state of the art on CDD is still rare, leading to the fact that its actual value for a...

This publication explores the option of outsourcing the procurement function to specialized agencies. Through selected case studies, it discusses the various benefits and issues surrounding two major approaches, namely a market-based system and a centralized procurement agency model. In...

Preface -- Acknowledgments -- About the author -- Processes and procedures -- What is a hedge fund? -- Defining operational issues -- Structures for investment in alternatives -- Appendix A Index of case studies by investment manager -- Appendix B UK serious fraud office hedge fund investor...

"This book specifically provides the reader with the methodologies necessary to create a successful life sciences start-up from initiation to exit. The readers gain an appreciation for the necessary data, partnership, and skills to be acquired and the constituencies that must be satisfied, along...