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How Merck Is Trying to Keep Disrupters at Bay

Harvard Business Review

EB plays the role of a venture capitalist or private-equity board with responsibility to sell, spin-out, or wind-down initiatives that, in practice, are found to be a poor strategic fit. As a great organizational scholar, James March, once noted, “ Leadership involves plumbing as well as poetry.”