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Creating Breakthrough Innovation During a Pharmaceutical Merger or Acquistion

Overview With industry challenges climbing, pharmaceutical companies are finding it difficult to sustain desired or expected revenue growth rates. Although Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) offer several avenues for achieving growth, results are often short-lived. To develop capabilities that fuel growth over the long term, pharmaceutical firms should exploit M&A transactions as a potential way to dramatically improve Research and Development (R&D) productivity.

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Publisher	IBM	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	July 2002	Downloads	462
Format	White Papers
Topics	Engineering / R&D, Business Management

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