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Why Companies Are Using M&A to Transform Themselves, Not Just to Grow

Harvard Business Review

Others note the diminishing number of attractive same-sector acquisition targets as industries consolidate, and as investors search for ways to put their growing cash reserves to work. The current cohort of acquisitions goes well beyond the typical defensive, synergy-driven, horizontal integration that marked previous M&A spurts.