Divestitures: Creating Value Through Strategy, Structure, and Implementation

One of today's best-known experts on the topic shows business leaders how to dramatically increase corporate value through smart, strategic divestiture

Divestitures are one of the most effective ways for increasing shareholder value--but how much do you know about this important business tool?

Based on Emilie Feldman's award-winning research, Divestitures: Creating Value through Strategy, Structure, and Implementation explains the ins and outs of how to use divestitures to benefit your organization. Written for business managers, board members, and other executives tasked with making the right divestiture decisions and implementing them in ways that create value for their companies, Divestitures is organized into three sections:

• Strategy: Remove problems, improve focus, reconfigure your portfolio, and address regulations
• Structure: Sales, spinoffs, equity carveouts, Reverse Morris Trusts, joint ventures, and tracking stocks
• Implementation: Separate and remove divested entities, reconfigure internal processes, and reshape external perceptions

Divestitures fills a major gap in the professional market, providing the only available rigorous, research-based treatment of this important strategic tool.