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How to Pull Your Company Out of a Tailspin

Harvard Business Review

Think of Kodak, which in the 1990s was the apparently unassailable leader in its market, with 80% market share in its core film business. Founded in the 1930s, Lego developed a repeatable model that allowed it to grow for decades. But these forms of external turbulence tend to be the trigger of free fall, not the cause.

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How to Manage Multiple Partnerships

Harvard Business Review

Their exclusive agreement had been launched in the go-go year of 2000, but by 2004 it had landed in court. The long-standing exclusive arrangement between Xerox and Fuji Photo Film in Japan is one example; pharmaceutical licensing across markets is another. Then we learn a lot from the proceedings. It can work, but it's rare.