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Strategic Choices Need to Be Made Simultaneously, Not Sequentially

Harvard Business Review

And Capabilities and Management Systems act as a reality check on the Where to Play and How to Win choice. If you can’t identify a set of Capabilities and Management Systems that you currently have, or can reasonably build, to make the Where to Play and How to Win choice come to fruition, it is a fantasy, not a strategy.

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Why We Shouldn’t Worry About the Declining Number of Public Companies

Harvard Business Review

Such acquisitions become more lucrative with rising first-mover advantages, pace of technological development, and network externality. The aggregate market capitalization of listed companies keeps increasing , unemployment remains manageable, and U.S. retains its leadership in technological progress.

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