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Recommended Resources – An Interview with Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi, authors of The Essential Advantage

Strategy Driven

The Essential Advantage : How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy. This, in turn, increases the company’s leverage with suppliers and allows it to be extraordinarily efficient in moving inventory and managing working capital. by Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi. Purell) consistent with its chosen way to play.

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Why Multinationals Are Doubling Down on Russia

Harvard Business Review

As a result, my company Frontier Strategy Group has forecasted Russia’s economy to grow at an average of around 1% YOY during the next three years (lower than its 3% YOY growth between 2006 and 2014) — not the rapid bounce-back companies are hoping for. How to create growth in a stagnating market.