As global markets become more complex, companies are increasingly pursuing collaboration to unlock value chain efficiency and agility. From joint demand planning to asset sharing, companies are seeking to unlock cross-firm economies of scale and scope. A key challenge preventing systematic collaboration
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The prolonged US recession and recent increase in income inequality has energized viewpoints challenging capitalism as a sustainable economic model.
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During the 16th century, Spain transformed from a modest European kingdom to a global hegemony. Spain’s success was driven by monetizing innovations in trans-ocean navigation and firearms to appropriate vast quantities of minerals
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Business is often compared to war and statecraft, as reflected in every-day management jargon (e.g. competitive positioning, stick vs. carrot, war-gamming, etc). If business is war then merger and acquisition (M&A) integration, also known as post merger integration (PMI), would be analogous to the capture and annexation of new principalities. In both scenarios, the acquirer…
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The mortgage CDO initiated market crash of 2008 has surprising similarities with the rail road induced market crash of 1873. Both are driven by greed induced risk taking
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