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What Not to Do When Business Sours

In the CEO Afterlife

This is a short-term aggravation, and though it may thrash earnings for the quarter or the year, it is not a restructuring of the marketplace. Having come out of a consumer goods background, I’ve seen many a case of cuts to the advertising budget. Yet, in cases where budgets are already small, there’s strategic risk to cutbacks.

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What Not to Do When Business Sours

LDRLB

This is a short-term aggravation, and though it may thrash earnings for the quarter or the year, it is not a restructuring of the marketplace. Having come out of a consumer goods background, I’ve seen many a case of cuts to the advertising budget. Yet, in cases where budgets are already small, there’s strategic risk to cutbacks.

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How the U.S., the EU, and Japan Are Trying to Rein in China’s State Capitalism

Harvard Business Review

Moreover, China’s subsidies are shielded by unpublished government budgets, internal instructions, oral directives, and a law that allows commercial information to be treated as “state secrets.” EU, and Japan have agreed to or are hammering out would represent a big step toward achieving that end. ” The U.S.,