HBR on managing the downturn

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I see Harvard Business Review has got out a section on ‘Unconventional Wisdom in a Downturn‘ from their team of bloggers. It offers some good pointers, but not all, so be careful!  

‘Protect Strategic Expenditures’ say Robert Kaplan and David Norton

Yes of course it’s foolish to kill efforts and investments that are important to medium- to long-term performance, assuming you can survive in the meantime! But during good times, many organisations raced after all kinds of exciting opportunities like children grabbing more ...

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Another couple of gems from SMS

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Another really insightful piece – unpublished as yet … Feldstad, Gao and Burkay of BI Norwegian School of Management on how come Google and eBay – mega powerful global players in their sectors – both got killed by local rivals in China [in eBay’s case, in spite of acquiring a strong local player]? In both cases, it seems, they got the ‘value network model’ wrong – well worth a visit to www.alibaba.com who saw off eBay. Here’s a summary, which will feature in ...

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