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States mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity produces notoriously mixed results but that some companies do very well using M&A to grow shareholder returns at a phenomenal rate. Records that M&A, long seen as the domain of finance and strategy, is becoming something to be managed across all management disciplines. Spotlights a table that gives many basic choices with regard to M&A.
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