How Leaks Changed the Game in a High-Profile Negotiation

Kraft Heinz’s offer to purchase Unilever ended in a rare public retreat for investor Warren Buffett—and generated useful business negotiation tips for the rest of us.

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Warren Buffet

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In the world of mergers and acquisitions, some acquirers try to improve the companies they purchase by expanding them and emphasizing innovation, while others choose to focus on cutting costs. Due in part to millennials’ lack of appetite for prepackaged food, consumer-goods companies lately have been focused more on slashing budgets than on innovating. Many

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