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Indiana University
Length: 10 pages
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Abstract
Companies enact defenses against hostile takeovers to protect their independence and current management initiatives or to help ensure that hostile bidders are pressured to present their best offers. The critical challenge for executives is to determine - in anticipation of attacks on their firm - which defense strategies best fortify stockholder investments. Reviews the motivations for hostile takeovers, discusses the effects of popular defenses, and showcases several high-profile takeover bids to provide executives with well-reasoned and empirically supported evaluations of the major strategies they can use to maximize shareholder wealth.
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Abstract
Companies enact defenses against hostile takeovers to protect their independence and current management initiatives or to help ensure that hostile bidders are pressured to present their best offers. The critical challenge for executives is to determine - in anticipation of attacks on their firm - which defense strategies best fortify stockholder investments. Reviews the motivations for hostile takeovers, discusses the effects of popular defenses, and showcases several high-profile takeover bids to provide executives with well-reasoned and empirically supported evaluations of the major strategies they can use to maximize shareholder wealth.