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When to Restructure | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

This is so much the case that some CEOs will avoid restructuring initiatives at all costs. There are even some business theorists that warn against undertaking complex restructurings because of the great risks involved. That is the question that many a business is forced to ask at some point during their life cycle.

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3 Ways to Motivate Employees During Times of Change :: Women on.

Women on Business

Washingtonians are not the only ones in transition; companies are reorganizing, restructuring, and adjusting their plans for 2009. Now DC workers are seeing a change in leadership across different agencies which may mean a new boss along with new systems and priorities.

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Interview: Rebel Brown

N2Growth Blog

For me businesses are as much or more about the people than they are about the products and markets …so those tough restructuring calls (or sometimes the shut it down calls) are the hardest things ever. Sometimes they aren’t happy calls – and that’s when it gets really hard.

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What Big Consumer Brands Can Do to Compete in a Digital Economy

Harvard Business Review

That’s why P&G has been restructuring for 20 years “ without much to show for it ,” according to one former finance manager. No matter how well P&G reorganizes itself, it can’t reverse the decline from $83 billion in sales in 2008 to $65 billion in 2017 without learning some new tricks.

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Private Equity Can Make Firms More Innovative

Harvard Business Review

To get a better picture of this trend, Stiebale, along with Kevin Amess from Nottingham University Business School and Mike Wright from Imperial College Business School, analyzed hundreds of PE-backed LBOs of UK companies from 1998 to 2008. For a refresher on how PE works, see The Strategic Secret of Private Equity.)

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How Chinese Subsidies Changed the World

Harvard Business Review

It is no coincidence that this upheaval in the Chinese solar industry is occurring at a time when the central government''s subsidies that had financed the industry''s explosive expansion have declined even as problems in the global solar-panel market have soared. Our research showed that without subsidies, these companies would be bankrupt.

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Corporate Inequality Is the Defining Fact of Business Today

Harvard Business Review

In 2008 Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson wrote about their research on U.S. economy — especially software-intensive sectors such as media, professional services, and finance — tend to be highly profitable as well. ” McAfee and Brynjolfsson report something similar in their 2008 HBR article.