Valeant's New Strategic Direction: Clean Break Or Simply A Paint Job?
Executive Summary
Trying to get out from under the shadow of ongoing investigations into its pricing and questionable business practices, which have led to its shares diving 90% in the past year, Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc. laid out its strategy for becoming a "new" company. But one analyst questioned whether the changes being made were simply "new paint on the same old shed."
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