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When a Spinoff Makes Strategic Sense

Harvard Business Review

Yet although the lay observer can understand the reasons for these corporate break-ups, the frameworks and ideas that underpin strategy theory are actually pretty unhelpful when considering whether or not to initiate a break-up. So how does RBV explain the decision to split the company into two?

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The More Experience You Have, the Worse You Are at Bootstrapping

Harvard Business Review

But a new study on Hollywood producers in the Strategic Management Journal reminds us that it’s not that simple. The researchers behind this new study point out that recent work on RBV has focused on managers as the ones generating the revenue from the company’s resources. Sounds logical, right?

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