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Are Your Paying Too to a great degree for That Acquisition?
Robert G Eccle - Advisory Capital Partners; Kersten L Lanes - PricewaterhouseCoopers;
Thomas C Wilson - PricewaterhouseCoopers (United Kingdom)

Despite 30 years of evidence demonstrating that mostly acquisitions
don't create value for the acquiring company's shareholders, executives
continue to make more deals, and bigger deals, each year. Recent
research point outs that acquisitions in the 1990 have just as poor a
record as they did in the 1970 There are fertility of reasons for this
poor performance: irrational exuberance

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