Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

A 2010 meta-analysis detailed many of the different issues that make divestiture so hard to evaluate consistently. The outsiders provide new blood in support functions such as finance, legal, or administration. In addition to sheer luck, three categories of factors could explain differences in the performance of divested businesses.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

For example, in 2010, Corelio and Concentra, two European media companies, established Coldset Printing Partners, a joint venture (JV) for their newspaper printing assets. But on the other hand, in order to safeguard the company’s future competitiveness, CEOs may have no other choice than to invest now.

Co-Opetition 8

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2011

Hence lots of the analytical, linear thinking at GM drove him to distraction; Product Planning analysts in particular: "a department composed of recycled finance types" as he calls them in the book. and those largely fixed costs were more painful and debilitating if GM shrank in the U.S. Outside the U.S.,

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