Mergers and Acquisitions: Creating Value from Start to Finish
Institution
Northwestern Kellogg
Location
Chicago, USA
Start Date
Oct 6-11,2026
Duration
6 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 — Kellogg's 'Merger Week' has been running for 40+ years. Strong on culture-gap management and post-merger integration — critical for Elm given that any acquisition will involve integrating a company with a different culture from Elm's GovTech-anchored DNA. Faculty includes Harry Kraemer (former CEO of Baxter, executive partner at Madison Dearborn) — practical PE/M&A perspective.