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

Harvard Business Review

The current cohort of acquisitions goes well beyond the typical defensive, synergy-driven, horizontal integration that marked previous M&A spurts. They’re doing it because, strategically, they have to – if they want to survive over the medium to long term. No operational integration is necessary.