Rovit, Sam; Harding, David; Lemire, Catherine - In: Strategy & Leadership 32 (2004) 5, pp. 18-24
To discern what makes some acquirers more successful than others, Bain & Co. performed a 15‐year longitudinal study of 1,600+ companies in the US, the UK, France, Germany, Italy and Japan doing 11,000+ deals plus interviews with senior executives. Bain’s analysis of the companies that...