Investigating Role of Optimism on M&A Outcome

Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures cause annual capital flow of trillions of dollars across national borders. They are high stakes & high emotion events for employees and all leaders associated with transaction. Research shows over 70% of M&A fail in primary objective of wealth creation. High failure rate is intriguing given all existing knowledge is applied from diligence to integration. We unearth a major gap in current body of knowledge, role of psychological capital. We investigate the impact of employee optimism and explanatory style on M&A outcome. We use deep learning to separate successful M&A from failed initiatives. This is first study globally that measures Positive Psychology variables and uses Deep Learning algorithms to predict M&A outcome. Our work is optimism audit and deep learning can presciently forecast M&A outcome. By measuring and influencing explanatory style & optimism ,leaders can increase M&A success probability from 30% to 92%. Our work fills major process gap from M&A due diligence to integration.

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Dr. Aashish Juneja is Positive Psychology Futurist and Founder of SuccessNeurons. His work is confluence of Positive Psychology and Artificial Intelligence in context of Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestitures. His purpose is to enable both Individuals & Corporations flower to their potential by developing their psychological capital.

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Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures cause annual capital flow of trillions of dollars across national borders. They are high stakes & high emotion events for employees and all leaders associated with transaction. Research shows over 70% of M&A fail in primary objective of wealth creation. High failure rate is intriguing given all existing knowledge is applied from diligence to integration. We unearth a major gap in current body of knowledge, role of psychological capital. We investigate the impact of employee optimism and explanatory style on M&A outcome. We use deep learning to separate successful M&A from failed initiatives. This is first study globally that measures Positive Psychology variables and uses Deep Learning algorithms to predict M&A outcome. Our work is optimism audit and deep learning can presciently forecast M&A outcome. By measuring and influencing explanatory style & optimism ,leaders can increase M&A success probability from 30% to 92%. Our work fills major process gap from M&A due diligence to integration.