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How to Pull Your Company Out of a Tailspin

Harvard Business

By now everyone knows the story: Kodak went into a free fall that led to bankruptcy in 2012 because it failed to respond to the disruption of digital technology — even though one of its own engineers invented a technology for capturing a digital image in 1975. Other companies can do the same. Build a Re-Founding Team.

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Reflecting on David Garvin’s Imprint on Management

Harvard Business

Garvin was a generalist more than a specialist, perhaps because he came of age at HBS during the 1980s, when the school’s primary focus was the development of skilled general managers. Pair it with “The Hidden Traps in Decision Making” (2006), by John S. That quality made him (arguably) the quintessential HBR author.