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Summary: J Neely, Vice President at Booz & Company, discusses the execution-related risks inherent in all transactions - the nine deadly sins of mergers. More than two-thirds of the transactions that fail do so at the execution stage. The keys to avoiding this fate are understanding the nine deadly sins and establishing a program integration team early in the merger process that can address them.