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We Can't Agree to Disagree

Harvard Business Review

The Wal-Mart relationship: I want the lowest prices and Wal-Mart is committed to giving me the lowest prices. In a big company, you might be facing the tradeoffs of signing a major OEM deal that will obligate your engineering or channel management infrastructure or going for a direct sales model that will require putting people on payroll.

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How Multinationals Should Be Planning for Brexit

Harvard Business Review

This group should represent a variety functions within the organization exposed to Brexit: supply chain, channel managers, procurement, marketing, sales, public affairs, governance, and financial controlling, among others.