• msbeta1421@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    It usually doesn’t benefit the shareholders either. Something like 80% of all M&A activity is considered a general failure.

    Projected “synergies” never come to fruition because employees on both sides are handled poorly in the transaction. A firm’s capabilities only exist because of its employees; when they all leave, most of the value goes with them.