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Debates over corporate scope–synergies v. focus–have become staples of the business pages. Activist investors keep turning up, demanding greater business focus and less sprawl across industries and activities. Management teams either acquiesce (Xerox, HP, DuPont-Dow) or resist, following their passion for synergy-seeking (Agrium, Siemens, Yahoo). Now we have an interesting meta-case of a university seeking greater synergy in business education, as Cornell’s top management group–president, provost, and board
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An overview article in the Wall Street Journal about President Obama’s foreign policy, apparently fueled by White House image-polishing sources (such as noted foreign policy expert David Axelrod), brings to mind what Richard Rumelt called “bad strategy” in his opus Good Strategy/Bad Strategy . (I would have preferred to call it “anti-strategy” or “pseudo-strategy” to distinguish it from actual strategies that are bad, but we go to war with the terminology we have.) For anyone with a passing acquaintance wit
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