Harvard Business

JUNE 2, 2016

On Google’s earnings call for the first quarter of 2006 – more than a year before the iPhone was released and more than two years before the release of the first Android-operated smartphone – CEO Eric Schmidt went out of his way to talk about mobile. Did Yahoo’s leadership really miss the importance of smartphones?

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Free fall is a crisis of obsolescence and decline that can happen at any point in a company’s life cycle, but most often it affects maturing incumbents whose business model has come under competitive attack from insurgents or is no longer viable in a changing market. Other companies can do the same. Build a Re-Founding Team.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 13, 2017

Look closely, and you’ll find that most companies have stretched their brands and product portfolios to customers and markets in which they are undifferentiated and profits are weak. Companies with foresight will make this change before the market or an activist investor demands it. Consider the remarkable turnaround at Ford.

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