Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2018

The trick is, growth strategies have to fit the company’s current context, especially its brand promise and its target market. Even when companies do want to expand their product offerings, internal preparation and sequencing can matter more than the innovation itself. The firm’s leaders, convinced the U.S.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Decentralization Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2018

and scale up after its recent declines in sales and market share. provided the founders with considerable latitude in introducing innovative and unorthodox management methods. ” Such decentralization and lack of structure, however, might have ultimately contributed to company-wide inefficiencies that drove up prices.

Price 13

Price Decentralization Long-term Self-aware 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

As the two markets homogenized into a general mass American market, focused mail-order retailers like Sears and Montgomery Ward saw sales and profits drop. Wood and Sears, Roebuck, excerpted in HBR in 1985, rural America was becoming less isolated and more like urban America.

Retail 9

Retail Quinn Real Estate Apparel 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2017

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.

Policies 8

Policies Politics Stephenson Industry 8