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Five Questions Companies Should Ask Before Making an Innovation-Driven Acquisition

Harvard Business Review

billion to acquire the webOS operating system, Hewlett-Packard discontinued its webOS-based series of smartphones and line of Touchpad tablets — losing its bet on a webOS-everywhere future. Interestingly, Dominic Caruso also came with the deal for that small biotech company, and he is now the pharma giant's CFO.