There's certainly nothing wrong with acquisition in itself, but making it your ultimate goal from the beginning is short-sighted.
What goes wrong with acquisitions?
"KeySpan's case is not the first or last time something went wrong in an acquisition".
HHM provides a framework to integrate the perceptions by managers and analysts of what could go wrong in the acquisition.
"There is a graveyard filled with software acquisitions gone wrong".
Clearly we can see examples of executives that have got it wrong, by overpaying for acquisitions or by recklessly leveraging the bank's balance sheet.
His writing is lucid, with a strong folksy streak, often borrowed from the lyrics of country music: "A line from a country song expresses our feeling about new ventures, turnarounds, or auction-like sales: 'When the phone don't ring, you'll know it's me.' " Or, on acquisitions gone wrong: "How can I miss you when you won't go away?" He can be mordant, too.
Depending on the size of the imaged object, however, this assumption may be wrong, and especially in 3-D acquisition mode there is a considerable amount of scatter in the edge bins.
Acquisitions often go wrong, too: Daiichi Sankyo must surely regret paying so much for Ranbaxy.
I also did not notice, and no one on set noticed that "acquisitions" is spelled wrong on the business card.
