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Sears Has Come Back from the Brink Before

Harvard Business Review

With the coming of the automobile and national radio advertising, James C. In a pattern that would become familiar to today’s innovation thinkers, Worthy reports, “the then managements of Sears and Wards alike failed to grasp the significance of these new developments.”. But then “Sears found the answer first,” Worthy reports, in 1924.

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