| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Why mergers in higher ed? -- Mergers in higher education : pursuing sustainability, breadth, and excellence through scale -- Why mergers now? -- Mergers as an organizational tactic -- Mergers in higher education : history and global experience -- Drivers and categories of mergers in higher education -- Success and failure : predictors and metrics -- Increasing the odds of merger success in higher ed -- The seven essential elements for merger success -- Evaluating the stakes when considering mergers -- Finding, evaluating, and choosing merger partners -- Negotiating the merger -- Increasing the odds of success: leadership, resources, and managing -- Opposition -- Effectively executing merges in higher ed -- Increasing the odds of success : leadership, resources, and managing opposition -- Merging organizational entities in a context-sensitive manner -- Managing institutional legal, corporate, and regulatory obligations in a -- Merger -- Project management ... as if your institution's future depended on it -- Creating and managing the brand : who do you want to be? -- Aftermath : as much a beginning as an end -- Looking to the future -- The role of mergers in institutional strategy |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 08, 2019) |
| Subject |
Universities and colleges -- United States -- Administration.
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Universities and colleges -- Mergers -- United States
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Universities and colleges -- Administration
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Universities and colleges -- Mergers
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hentschke, Guilbert C., author.
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Jacobs, Lloyd A., author
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Jacobs, Bonita C., 1949- author.
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| ISBN |
9781421432618 |
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1421432617 |
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