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How to Know If a Spin-Off Will Succeed

Harvard Business Review

The first category is exogenous factors over which the business has little control: the growth of the markets into which it sells; the competitive intensity and thus the average profitability of the industry in which it operates; or the fragmentation of its industry and thus the scope for a growth-by-acquisition approach.

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You Can’t Engage Employees by Copying How Other Companies Do It

Harvard Business Review

They must be consciously designed to your business’ values and cultural objectives. How to Be a Company That Employees Love. Whole Foods Market’s purpose is to promote healthier eating. Insight Center. Sponsored by Citrix GoToMeeting. It takes a careful mix of mission, management, and culture.

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Deciding to Fix or Kill a Problem Product

Harvard Business Review

The result: Market success for the product and the company was purchased by Google for $3.2 Situation Three: It Does Not Have Good Strategic Fit. Corporate indecision and misalignment of strategic objectives let promising products fall by the wayside. How does your product fit into it? Fix or kill?