Amit singh sisodiya edited 2005 mergers and acquisitions strategies and insights the icfai university press, hyderabad. A glance at any business newspaper or business news web page will indicate that mergers and acquisitions are big business and are taking place all the time. G zaltman of harvard business school wrote many books regarding consumers from mkt 500 at northcentral university. His research interests focus on customer behavior and marketing strategy. Essential insights into the mind of the market how customers. Anyone focused on consumer neuroscience and neuromarketing should read it. They know that people interpret the same data differently, so products appeal equally to people with different points of view. There thus seems to be a rather contradictory view of how customers are affected by a merger or acquisition, if they are affected at all. How customers think essential insights into the mind of the market bygerald zaltman a summary of the original text. How to unlock the hidden 95 per cent of the customer s mind that traditional marketing methods.
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