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Sears Has Come Back from the Brink Before

Harvard Business Review

Concerns that it wouldn’t have enough cash to finance its holiday stock has apparently led to the company to sell real estate, spin off its Lands’ End brand, and raise $625 million in unsecured loans and equity warrants. Worthy pointed out in the book, The Shaping an American Institution: Robert E.

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The Big Picture of Business – Achieving the Best by Preparing for the Worst: Lessons Learned from High-Profile Crises, part 2 of 4

Strategy Driven

Along the way, many defective tires hit the market, subsequently causing SUV rollovers, damage and, in some cases, deaths. Real estate consultants are not business strategists, but the retail system gives them the say-so in establishing community presence. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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