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Kodak’s Downfall Wasn’t About Technology

Harvard Business

Maybe in 2010 it would have lured a young engineer from Google named Kevin Systrom to create a mobile version of the site. After all, they have many capabilities that entrants are racing to replicate, such as access to markets, technologies, and healthy balance sheets. Approach new growth with appropriate humility.

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Stop Focusing on Profitability and Go for Growth

Harvard Business

Bain & Company’s Macro Trends Group carefully analyzed the global balance sheet and found that the world is awash in money. Global capital balances more than doubled between 1990 and 2010 — from $220 trillion (about 6.5 Bain recently completed research on workforce productivity. times global GDP).

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Research Shows That Smaller M&A Deals Work Out Better

Harvard Business

This is one of the findings from a recently completed study based on publicly available information on the world’s 2,393 largest corporations for the time period 2010–2014. Walter Thompson Company for $566 million in 1987 and Ogilvy for $864 million in 1989 — big acquisitions that stretched the company’s balance sheet.