Rita Gunther McGrath is quoted in the NJ.com article entitled Surviving a Merger by Joseph R. Perone:
“It is natural to go through an emotional sequence of events when confronted with a big change such as a merger,” said Rita Gunther McGrath, an associate professor at Columbia Business School and a resident of Princeton Junction. “A typical pattern is to feel shock, then denial that anything will really change, then sadness, sometimes anger and eventually acceptance and bargaining.”
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