Description: From PepsiCo and General Motors to ITT, AT&T, and countless others, big companies are splitting up in record numbers. With the market value of these transactions set to hit $100 billion in the United States this year, break-ups are bringing unprecedented investment and career opportunities to the marketplace.

Using landmark cases from the United States and Europe, the authors zero in on the driving forces behind break-ups, and pinpoint the internal frictions that decrease and can even destroy the value of a multi-business company's portfolio.

Managers and CEOs will learn how to tell if break-up belongs on their agenda, how to negotiate the break-up process to offset value destruction and boost performance, and how to get the most profit from a breakup. The authors have analyzed the Fortune 100 and offer their opinion as to which corporate giants have the most to gain from breaking up. The results may surprise you. Break-Up! flies in the face of risk-spreading, balance, bigger-is-better, and other favorite business fallacies, and will revolutionize management thinking for the turbulent years ahead.

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