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Stephanie Cohen – The Evolution of M&A and Corporate Strategy - [Invest Like the Best, EP.131]
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My guest this week is Stephanie Cohen, who is the chief strategy officer for Goldman Sachs and a member of their management committee. Prior to her current role, she spent the majority of her career in the investment banking and M&A divisions at Goldman.
We discuss lessons learned from her career in M&A and the many initiatives she now leads at the firm. I really enjoyed her perspective on how a big, established firm like Goldman can balance innovation with improving existing businesses. Please enjoy our conversation.
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Show Notes
(First Question) – Motives on both sides for doing M&A
– Most difficult deal she worked on
– Biggest value add she brought from her seat on the Fiat deal
– Biggest changes since she started to today
– Smartest ways for companies who want to be acquired to be prepared
– Best M&A banker she’s seen
– What should businesses looking to make an acquisition be thinking about
– What does a strategy from her perspective mean
– Tension between innovation and change
– Difference between bottom-up and top-down components of strategy
– Exploration vs exploitation
– Submission process within accelerate
– Next step after you see a good idea
– Her take on FinTech and Industrials and their collision
– Lessons from elite early stage investors
– The origins of the LAUNCH program
– Important pieces beyond just the capital
– How they market to women starting business
– Lessons that she has learned about narrative and communications
– How she handles developing talent internally
– Managing her time
– Biggest concerns about OKR’s?
– Kindest thing anyone has done for Stephanie
– Kids in the area of competing
Learn More
For more episodes go to InvestorFieldGuide.com/podcast.
Sign up for the book club, where you’ll get a full investor curriculum and then 3-4 suggestions every month at InvestorFieldGuide.com/bookclub
Follow Patrick on twitter at @patrick_oshag
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