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Your Whole Company Needs to Be Distinctive, Not Just Your Product

Harvard Business Review

Back in the 1980s, a company could set itself apart through scale, being the largest company in a category provided leverage over costs, back office processes, distribution, and marketing effectiveness. Consider, for example, the way many credit cards are marketed. When Procter & Gamble purchased it in 1999 for $2.3

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Why the U.S. Needs More Worker-Owned Companies

Harvard Business Review

And some companies with employee majority-owned stock programs, such as Publix Super Markets and outerwear maker W.L. Last year 400 members of IAM Maine Lobstering Union bought the wholesale operation of Trenton Bridge Lobster Pound and turned it into a worker-owned cooperative called Lobster 207.

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