M&As and Corporate Strategy
Institution
INSEAD
Location
Fontainebleau, France
Start Date
Nov 9.2026 & Mar 15,2027 & May 24,2027
Duration
5 days
Competencies developed
Strategic Thinking
Anticipating challenges and future opportunities, planning proactively, and investing resources to sustain a durable competitive advantage.
Business & Financial Acumen
Interpreting economic and financial data, contributing to business decisions, and building effective strategies that ensure continued outperformance.
Drive Change
Leading transformation with conviction, championing innovation, and navigating disruption to reshape how the organization operates.
Focus areas
Elm 4.0 strategic rationale
ENABLER: M&A + Initiative #8 — Directed by Prof. Laurence Capron (author of 'Build, Borrow, or Buy'). Especially valuable for Elm because the framework explicitly helps companies decide between organic growth (build), licensing/alliances (borrow), and M&A (buy) — exactly the choice Elm faces across each Initiative #1, #2, #6, and the four expansion plays in slide 18. Strong European business school for Elm's deal flow into EU.