Not everyone is sitting on piles and piles of cash because of ghost projects. (Oh, yes, we haven’t forgotten.) Not all of us are nepo babies with corrupt daddies who are happy to be our “ATM machines.

Who says there’s no such thing as easy money? These people would beg to differ!

It’s a remarkable paradox: Studies show that the number of corporate alliances increases by some 25% a year and that those alliances account for nearly a third of many companies’ revenue and value—yet ...