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In the wake of American Home Products' friendly bid for Warner-Lambert and Pfizer's $80 billion (or $74 billion, depending on who's counting) hostile counter-offer (click here to read an "Explainer" on hostile takeovers), expectations are growing that we're going to see a wave of mergers in the pharmaceutical industry.
Most scholarly studies of hostile takeovers show they have little or no impact on productivity, profitability, or on the acquiring company's long-term stock price.
If a company's management hasn't done right by its shareholders, takeovers are an appropriate remedy.
One of the first lessons I learned in journalism school was the old phrase "there is nothing new under the sun," and I suspect that in five years an exciting new topic will be fascinating us in the same way that the Internet is now and the takeovers of the 1980s did then.
Even allowing for the fact that companies trying to resist hostile takeovers will say and do almost anything to make their would-be acquirers look bad, the German reaction to the Vodafone offer has been striking for its vehemence and the nakedness of its nationalism.