3 reviews for M&A Step 2 — M&A Strategy & Board-Ready Report
Course Content
📖 SECTION 1: Introduction – Understanding M&A Strategy
3. Overview of the End-to-End M&A Strategy Workflow
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📖 Section 2: Strategic Context & Growth Gap Analysis
4. Diagnosing the Strategic Context
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5. Organic Trajectory vs Strategic Ambition
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6. Quantifying the Growth Gap
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7. The Strategic Implications of Doing Nothing
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📖 Section 3: Build vs. Buy Assessment
8. Diagnosing the Deficit: Mapping Capability Gaps
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9. Build vs Buy vs Partner: Comparing Three Paths
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10. Why M&A Accelerates Strategic Change
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📖 Section 4. M&A Focus Themes and Deal Patterns
11. Set Your Investment Themes
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12. Horizontal Scale Deals
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13. Vertical Chain Control Deals
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14. Diversification Deals: Managing Portfolio Risk and Volatility
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15. Adjacent Expansion Deals
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16. Technology and Talent Acquisition Deals
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17. Geographic Entry Deals
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18. Customer Base Expansion Deals
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📖 Section 5. Target Screening and Capital Guardrails
19. Aligning Targets to Your Investment Themes
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JC Academy
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This module does not stop at strategic concepts. It teaches how to frame rationale, evaluate fit, and present conclusions in a board-ready report that supports real corporate decision-making.
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This module was built around the deliverable that corp dev teams actually produce, a board-ready strategic rationale that frames market thesis, target fit, and risk before any financial work begins.
It trains the discipline needed to translate M&A ideas into decision-ready material.
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Writing the board report makes you justify every strategic assumption, and you quickly realize that “it is a strong growth market” is not a rationale the board will accept.