This IR staple was originally published in 2001 and is intended for those new to investor relations and companies looking to establish a sound IR program.

Canadian Investor Relations Institute and PrecisionIR announce the results of an Investor Survey.

This book reviews mergers who looked good on paper but failed because the human factors were ignored. It demonstrates how to address the human side of a merger, revealing pitfalls to avoid as well as best practices to pursue.

This book is a professional and managerial guide to conducting mergers and acquisitions, featuring a collection of articles from leading business scholars. The topics covered include friendly acquisition, integration managers, trade-offs in acquisitions, and who stays and who goes.

This book describes in a practical and concise manner the complexity of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act for non-financial managers and directors, and gives a pathway model to develop an efficient control environment of businesses.

In Eats Shoots & Leaves, Lynne Truss dares to say that, with our system of punctuation patently endangered, it is time to look at our commas and semicolons and see them for the wonderful and necessary things they are. If there are only pedants left who care, then so be it. "Sticklers unite" is her rallying cry. "You have nothing to lose but your sense of proportion--and arguably you didn't have much of that to begin with."

The New Investor Relations provides a wealth of both strategic and tactical advice on how best to manage IR in the twenty-first century. This volume is a critical resource for top executives and IR professionals who face the tough challenge of restoring investor confidence in today's highly charged and demanding corporate atmosphere.

This is a definitive guide for CEOs, CFOs, and executives of newly public companies. It helps fledgling public company officers and directors prepare for the unique business task of convincing investors of their company's value.

M&A Integration provides a practical, straightforward framework for seamlessly integrating companies and for creating significant value for investors while at the same time producing a strong, supercompetitive organization for employees and other stakeholders. It reviews all of the management and human resource aspects of integration, explaining how to master each in the process.

This book explains how each form of restructuring works and the laws governing them, as well as insights on which form of restructuring is most beneficial, illustrated with numerous case studies examining mergers within the United States and internationally.

This book is a complete guide to planning and executing successful mergers and acquisitions.

This book is for anyone interested in learning about mergers and acquisitions, and understanding the mindset of those that enact the world's greatest financial transaction. An insightful and mesmerizing read for any strategic thinker.

World-class organizations, those with the most effective investor relations, provide the financial community with information that is candid, open, specific, timely,and future oriented. Higgins selects the best of these companies and finds that the benefits of open disclosure include lower cost of capital, improved liquidity, a larger and better informed analyst following, and more "patient" investors. His contributing authors, all in high places at topflight organizations, provide state-of-the-art approaches to strategic financial communication and give first hand-poofs that open disclosure truly works.

Explaining how crisis management can prevent or reduce the threats of a crisis, this book provides guidelines for how best to act and react in an emergency situation. Drawing on firsthand experience in crisis management, Coombs provides detailed explanations about preparing for crisis, detecting crises, and preventing crisis.

This book is designed to provide guidance in determining whether an IPO is the right move for your company and addresses the major leadership challenges that CEOs face. It describes how to plan your IPO journey and chart your business strategy, focusing on the steps you must take to succeed during and after the IPO event.

This book is the leading answer guide in today's fast-changing, enormously complex merger world. Written in a handy, easy-reference Q&A format, this no-nonsense handbook covers everything from the early stages of locating a suitable target--or finding that you are a target--through the postmerger trials of turning multiple companies into one. Synopses of nearly three dozen landmark cases give real life insights into legal rulings from previous high profile mergers.

This book is a vital resource to maximize the potential benefits of any merger or acquisition. This is a hands-on guide that helps managers identify and realize the sales and marketing synergies attainable in corporate mergers and acquisitions. It provides detailed guidance on evaluating M&A target companies from the standpoint of strategic sales and marketing criteria. The book also details strategies to effect postmerger integration of disparate, culturally dissimilar sales and marketing units.