Competition Quote by James B. Stewart

Divestitures have long been the preferred remedy for horizontal mergers, where there's an overlap between the two companies. Airlines, for example, may have to…

— James B. Stewart

Our obligation is to preserve competition and make sure that mergers are not unlawfully lessening competition.

— Lina Khan

What the Commission is seeking cuts the heart out of the strategic rationale of our deal.

— Jack Welch

We've identified not just one merger, but a whole string of mergers that some of these large companies made that we believe were illegal,…

— Lina Khan

One of the tangible benefits of the merger is that we are not vying with each other for work. We can now focus on…

— Gabrielle Carteris

A merger is hard to pull off under any circumstances. It's harder when everybody is against you.

— Carly Fiorina

“The process contains serious flaws. First, it’s conducted annually, so it doesn’t help executives respond swiftly to threats and opportunities (a new competitor, a…

— Harvard Business School Press

In any merger, the biggest challenge is always integration of human resources because the people who are coming in have a lot of apprehension.

— Arundhati Bhattacharya

Why should antitrust laws be used to block mergers that the market, by the existence of willing buyers and sellers, shows to be desirable?

— Henry Manne

Congress asked us to enforce the merger laws and that is necessarily a predictive exercise. As a result, the inquiry that we undertake is…

— Lina Khan

Multiple mergers can be challenging because people come from different backgrounds.

— Arundhati Bhattacharya

The standard formulation on remedy is that it ought to cure past violations and prevent their recurrence. That's what antitrust is all about.

— Charles James