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How to Know If a Spin-Off Will Succeed

Harvard Business Review

The first category is exogenous factors over which the business has little control: the growth of the markets into which it sells; the competitive intensity and thus the average profitability of the industry in which it operates; or the fragmentation of its industry and thus the scope for a growth-by-acquisition approach.

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You Can’t Engage Employees by Copying How Other Companies Do It

Harvard Business Review

Barry-Wehmiller’s purpose is to enable all team members to have meaningful and fulfilling jobs. As CEO of Campbell Soup between 2000 and 2010, Doug Conant employed quarterly engagement surveys to assess and develop high commitment in the company’s multiple business and operating units. Culture is, however, very fragile.

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The Right Kind of Conflict Leads to Better Products

Harvard Business Review

” Members from each partner organization rate the alliance in areas related to strategic fit, operational fit, and cultural fit. We see similar findings in research looking at individual work teams. Lilly’s research shows these same effects can happen between members of alliance innovation teams.