Today's Best Companies are Horizontally Integrated
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 14, 2012
The pendulum has swung from Henry Ford's buying ships and railroads—and even a rubber plantation in Brazil to ensure his supply of tires—to Boeing's radical outsourcing of Dreamliner components, and more recently, back to greater ownership of upstream and downstream assets by companies as different as Pepsi and Oracle.
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