Acquisition Strategy and Implementation

Nancy Hubbard is a former lecturer at Oxford's School of Management in Organisational Behaviour and Human Resource Management. She also consults on acquisition issues and has worked on mergers/acquisitions ranging in size from GPB28 million to GPB21 billion transactions. She has lectured and consulted throughout the world on acquisition including at IES (Aix-en-Provence), Northwestern University, Wharton School of Management, and the Universities of Bath and Nottingham. Nancy has worked with executives from companies such as Unilever, Procter & Gamble, Kingfisher, Reed Elsevier, Williams plc, Anglo-American, P&O and Ford Motor Company. She has written acquisition related articles for the Financial Times, Accountancy Age, Acquisitions Monthly, Human Resource Magazine, Strategy, and Ambassador among others. She has contributed to and written four books on change and acquisition. Her latest book, Acquisition: Strategy and Implementation (Palgrave, 1999, 2000) was called 'essential reading' by both Director and People Management magazines. Nancy's four degrees include a Doctorate from Oxford examining acquisition implementation success factors.