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Strategies for Succeeding in Today’s Brazil

Harvard Business Review

By 2011, it had become apparent that Brazil’s recent prosperity depended too much on China’s appetite for commodities and on the Brazilian government’s ability to fuel consumer spending through direct transfers and credit expansion. times their earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA).

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Recommended Resources – An Interview with Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi, authors of The Essential Advantage

Strategy Driven

times EBITDA (compared to average multiples of 15 at the time). Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. Additional Insights… An Interview with Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi, authors of The Essential Advantage. It divested a number of personal care and confectionary lines (e.g., billion, or 20.6 All rights reserved.