For Non-Profits, M&A Activities Have Different Standards For Success

A few days ago and as part of my briefing, Make M&A Work For Your Organization, I cited a couple studies that have shown mergers fail somewhere between 50% and 90% of the time. We received some great OPEN MINDS Circle reader feedback on that piece, including an important clarification from J. Kevin Fee, the president of Angler West Consultants Inc.

Mr. Fee’s point: There are differences in how M&A success is measured for investor-owned vs. non-profit transactions. He offered this important distinction between typical non-profit mergers and acquisitions and for-profit . . .