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Centralized Decision Making Helps Kill Bad Products

Harvard Business

What proves trickier is to yank lackluster offerings with sales that mildly disappoint — products that perform poorly but are not clear-cut cases for withdrawal. Vertical hierarchies are much more efficient at processing information. In such cases, managers often hang on in the hope of an eventual uptake.

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How Blockchain Will Accelerate Business Performance and Power the Smart Economy - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM MICROSOFT

Harvard Business

Automated blockchain triggers and enforcements might have even helped entire nations avoid humanitarian disasters caused by economic transactions, such as the milk scandal of 2008 which claimed 300,000 victims, dis-incenting the use of forced child labor, or managing recent threats from ISIS to poison the European food supply.