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When Does the Buck Stop?

Harvard Business Review

But how realistic is this, really, in a huge company? Weldon is CEO of Johnson&Johnson (J&J), which firmly established itself as one of the world's most trusted companies following the famous Tylenol scare in the 1980s. And the company has been a blue-chip stock for years. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation , the U.S.'s

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Three Traps Facing New Global Leaders

Harvard Business Review

They rendered the global power of the company useless because they could no longer leverage Nestle's massive supply chain or brands. They lost their scalable reach, but their overhead still reflected their reality of being part of a big global company - which caused their profits to drop. Which one is most common in your company today?