Professor Mitchell Marks quoted about integrating companies after a merger

Professor of Management Mitchell Marks was quoted for a Nov. 30 Wall Street Journal article about integrating companies after a merger or acquisition.

Executives impatient with lengthy mergers usually are "looking to the next deal and lose oversight. They drop the integration into operating people's lap, thinking, '...that is a distraction to what I think is real work,'" Marks said. But "sometimes buyers know what they're going to do, they bring teams together to study opportunities."