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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

Academics have been writing about the Resource-Based View (RBV) — a theory of how companies can gain competitive advantage from their unique and valuable resources — since the 1980s, though the idea has been around for longer.

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