Harvard Business Review on Mergers and Acquisitions.

• Author: Marshall, Jeffrey
• Position: Review - Brief Article

Harvard Business School Press, 220 pages. $19.95.

Look no farther for a highly readable and enlightening collection of articles and interviews about the merger process in all its various facets -- from planning and structuring the deal, to early integration issues, to deciding who to keep from the combined company. The book is part of a five-part management series that Harvard began issuing this summer; other volumes cover areas such as decision-making, organizational learning and innovation.

This slim paperback volume serves up a range of voices and themes, from the theoretical to the practical. There's a CEO roundtable in the opening chapter, drawing on the lessons of "master acquirers" such as Merrill Lynch's David Komansky, Tyco's Dennis Kozlowski, VF...