Word: wriston
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...frenzied stock exchanges drove the price of diversified firms higher than that of the separated parts--the opposite of what happens today. "Investors came to overvalue growth by acquisition," says Walter Wriston, former chairman of Citibank. "That was because of this idea that a good manager could make two plus two equal five...