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Category Creation Is the Ultimate Growth Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Our analysis showed the top 20 firms in Fortune 's 2010 list of fastest-growing companies received $3.40 coffee sector revenue grew from $28 billion in the late 1990s to $47 billion in 2010. Much of Keurig's success comes from its superior brewer technology and wide variety of K-Cups. of revenue growth. Yet total U.S.

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How to Anticipate a Burning Platform

Harvard Business Review

The book retail platform was not yet burning. By 2010, it would have been too late to act, as we saw with the Border's bankruptcy. It's only this year, for the first time, that services revenue surpassed technology revenue. But the flames were about to rise. Consider how narrow B&N's window was. Look at profit margin trends.

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