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How to Know If a Spin-Off Will Succeed

Harvard Business Review

The outsiders provide new blood in support functions such as finance, legal, or administration. Decisive actions are required to tackle the factors that prompted the spin-off in the first place, which in many cases are underperformance and/or a lack of strategic fit leading to chronic underinvestment in the development of the business.