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The Coherent Conglomerate

Harvard Business Review

Every successful conglomerate we know of — GE, Honeywell, Tata and United Technologies Corporation among them — has prospered by doing two things. Of course, the very diversity that defines a conglomerate makes it hard to enforce the discipline of coherence. But that probably won't work. There is no universal answer.

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