When a chief executive unveils a big merger, the fretting begins. Concerns about a repeat of disasters like AOL-Time Warner ...

Some of the biggest mergers in history, like AOL and Time Warner, have had varying levels of success. The $130 billion merger of Dow Chemical and DuPont created a focused business in agriculture ...

He has advised on many of the largest M&A deals of the past decade and a half, including AT&T’s buys of Time Warner ($109 ...

Mergers can look like a golden ticket to success. The idea of combining strengths, sharing resources, and dominating the ...

Richard Parsons, a former Time Warner CEO who was also instrumental in saving New York's Apollo Theater, died Thursday in ...

But next time the two met on the train they joked some more about a merger. Last week the merger was a reality. Engineered by clever Tom Dennehy, who became president of the new Sprague Warner ...

Parsons became CEO of AOL Time Warner in 2002, replacing Gerald Levin, who stepped aside two years after the media giant’s disastrous $165 billion merger with the upstart internet company.

Richard D. Parsons, a pioneering Black business executive who led Time Warner after its disastrous merger with AOL and had a hand in untangling some of the media industry’s knottiest dilemmas ...