Look at the survival rate for marriages. I'd strongly theorize that the inability to predict the outcome of a merger is not limited to arrogant businessmen and

Look at the survival rate for marriages. I'd strongly theorize that the inability to predict the outcome of a merger is not limited to arrogant businessmen and somewhat less strongly I propose that the general public don't seem to do much better or worse than businessmen. I wonder if there is any way to train people to design better mergers. It would seem that MBA schools and pre-marital counselors both are not terribly good at it. That means you could sell them a checkbox to help them out. Insert stereotypical "sounds like a really difficult job in other words the perfect crazy startup idea". Maybe gamified somehow, either entirely or some component? It might just be a lack of empathy, surely that can be trained? Or lack of critical analysis skills? Good luck with this startup idea. I'm sure that some liberal arts degrees have considerable research on this general topic, although I'd ignore the religious studies and b-school documentation for purely pragmatic reasons.