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The Four Colors of Business Growth
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The Four Colors of Business Growth

by Anjan V. Thakor
August 2011
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
184 pages
5h 10m
English
Elsevier Science
Content preview from The Four Colors of Business Growth
Growth Strategies of Blue Companies 101
So mergers and acquisitions do create total value. And they are partic-
ularly valuable in cases in which the rm can use them to ll gaps in
its product portfolio. But acquirers lose on average. Target sharehold-
ers gain. This suggests that at least part of the problem is the division
of gains from the merger between the acquirer and the target. In fact,
Figure 8.4 indicates the main reasons why mergers don’t work well for
acquirers on average.
We have already discussed the issue of overestimating synergies and
paying too much for a target as a consequence. Quite often, the over-
payment comes
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