Making The Merger Work

Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are increasingly common in health and human services but it doesn’t mean that most of them are successful. Across all industries, between 70% and 90% of  M&A transactions fail (see The Big Idea: The New M&A Playbook). A more recent McKinsey & Company analysis found that 10% of M&A deals are cancelled after they are announced—11.7% in health care (see Done deal? Why many large transactions fail to cross the finish line). And the larger the deal, the less likely the success. Of the unsuccessful . . .