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One Reason Mergers Fail: The Two Cultures Aren’t Compatible

Harvard Business Review

and scale up after its recent declines in sales and market share. Tight cultures have an efficient orderliness and reassuring predictability, but are less adaptable. Rooted firmly in the manufacturing industry, Amazon has defined processes to maximize its efficiency. Loose cultures are much more fluid.

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The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of the U.S. Antitrust Movement

Harvard Business Review

This approach was successfully exported after the War to Europe and Japan to help decentralize economic power and promote an effective competitive process. Market forces could naturally correct the episodic instances of market power, and could do so far better than the messes caused by government intervention. .” U.S.