Remove Balance Sheet Remove Culture Remove Journal Remove Strategy
article thumbnail

If You Think Downsizing Might Save Your Company, Think Again

Harvard Business

Proponents of downsizing argue that it is an effective strategy, with benefits such as increased performance and sales. In our recently published work in the Journal of Business Research , we tested the theory that downsizing could lead to a host of problems that eventually increases the likelihood of bankruptcy. based corporations.

Company 28
article thumbnail

Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job: Disruption and Activist Investors

Harvard Business

In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup. He doubled GE’s investment in R&D. Then it wasn’t.