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Title: Outdated; should not be sold anymore
Review: I don't think this is a bad collection of articles. However, its contents are no longer relevant today. The book opens with the announced merger of AOL and Time Warner, hailing it as a great development. We now know how spectacularly that deal collapsed. The article then continues with a discussion of how M&A; is 'different' in the internet age, and how this justifies ever larger takeover sums. Worldcom is then given as an example; another icon of the excesses of the internet boom that imploded. Participant in the opening discussion is Dennis Kozlowski, who is now serving eight to twenty-five years in prison for his role in the Tyco scandals.I admit, all of this is entertaining enough from a historical perspective. However, it should be beneath Harvard Business Review to keep on milking no longer relevant content for a few extra dollars profit at airports, college bookstores etc.
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