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Starfish vs Spiders

LDRLB

Morgan (2005) uses a great image of a spider-plant to describe the decentralization trend. Handy’s (1998) shamrock organization might provide the right blend of centralization and decentralization to make it worthwhile for for-profit companies. This is where the starfish could reside (Brafman & Beckstrom, 2006).

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Why Adding More Products Isn’t Always the Best Way to Grow

Harvard Business Review

Back in 2006, McDonald’s saw its growth stall. The trick is, growth strategies have to fit the company’s current context, especially its brand promise and its target market. There it had become the market leader for e-commerce payment processing, but by 2015 it had some formidable rivals. Justin Case/Getty Images.

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Class-Action Lawsuits: Not The Answer for Workplace Gender Discrimination

Harvard Business Review

2006) for a discussion of the requirements for certification of a class action. That practice is supposedly a central policy of decentralized decision-making, in other words, that the company has decided to leave the substance of pay and promotion decisions to individual managers. 3d 24 (2d Cir.

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One Reason Mergers Fail: The Two Cultures Aren’t Compatible

Harvard Business Review

and scale up after its recent declines in sales and market share. ” Such decentralization and lack of structure, however, might have ultimately contributed to company-wide inefficiencies that drove up prices. Meanwhile, Whole Foods could lower its prices (organic avocados for just $1.69!)

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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

At the time, though, we were just in search of a new approach to building a sustainable business in that critical but often difficult market. In fact, you could say (and many did) that our previous attempts had failed, in that we hadn’t established a sustained market position. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point.

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Marketing Success | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Those of you familiar with this blog know that I’m generally a strong marketing advocate. Those of you familiar with this blog know that I’m generally a strong marketing advocate. with the only outcomes being failed initiatives and splintered management teams.

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Using Supply Chains to Grow Your Business

Harvard Business Review

He is poised to become the leader in this segment of a multi-billion dollar market. Global supply chains can cut across many “cultures”: national, industry, technology, market segment, and more. “By serving as GE’s and other equipment makers’ supply partner, the whole world is now my scope.