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Why the South Will Lead in the Global Tilt

Harvard Business Review

In 2011, for the third year in a row, the Euromonitor International market research firm ranked Haier as the top appliance brand in the world, calculated its retail volume share as 7.8 In 2008 he was ready to take yet another big bite, making a surprise purchase of Anheuser-Busch, to create AB Inbev, the world's largest brewer.

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An Activist Investor Lands in Your Boardroom — Now What?

Harvard Business Review

But Motorola’s markets were transforming in the mid-2000s, and chief executive Greg Brown and his board decided in March 2008 that the company should be split in two: Motorola Mobility would take its mobile phones and related devices, and Motorola Solutions its mission-critical data and communication products.

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Why the South Will Lead in the Global Tilt

Harvard Business Review

In 2011, for the third year in a row, the Euromonitor International market research firm ranked Haier as the top appliance brand in the world, calculated its retail volume share as 7.8 In 2008 he was ready to take yet another big bite, making a surprise purchase of Anheuser-Busch, to create AB Inbev, the world's largest brewer.