How to Know If a Spin-Off Will Succeed
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 24, 2015
A 2010 meta-analysis detailed many of the different issues that make divestiture so hard to evaluate consistently. In parallel, it reduced its fixed costs by restructuring its industrial footprint and overhead structure; increasing sales, marketing, and R&D expenditures in targeted areas; and dramatically reducing working capital.
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