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A Program for Sharing Corporate Intelligence
Gary B. RoushLess and less financial information is publicly available today as more companies are being taken private, competitors are often subsidiaries of worldwide conglomerates, and joint…
Profiling Rival Decision Makers
Walter D. BarndtIf business can be looked on as a type of game, it is generally agreed that the idea is to outwit and out‐perform your competitors. If you do, then you may be rewarded with the…
A Recipe for Business Intelligence Success
Leonard FuldMuch of corporate America has accepted the concept of competitor or business intelligence. As evidence of this, many Fortune 500 companies have already established intelligence…
Negotiating a Business Venture in the Soviet Union
Peter J. PettiboneMore than at any time during the past seven decades, Western companies are cultivating commercial relationships in the Soviet Union. Western direct investment began nearly four…
Why Some Strategic Alliances Succeed and Others Fail
Peter Lorange, Johan RoosA key competitive precondition for any organization involved in any of today's multinational businesses is speed and pace in implementing strategies. Although one's organization…
Getting Ready for Japan: What Not to Do
Peter D. MillerForeign businessmen frequently carry preconceived ideas with them to Japan. Such ideas can result in disastrous consequences when applied to business in that country. If your…
A Prepackaged Bankruptcy Strategy
Thomas J. Salerno, Craig D. HansenWhat do the following businesses have in common—the nation's fifth‐largest hospital chain, based in Ohio; an oil company based in Louisiana; a historic destination resort hotel…
Innovation and Corporate Mergers
Kenneth M. DavidsonIt is common to identify cultural differences between the acquired and acquiring firms as the cause of the failure of individual mergers. For example, H. Ross Perot, the head of…
Making New Technologies Work
Robert O. Knorr, Edward F. ThiedeNew technologies have yielded astounding increases in quality, productivity, and customer satisfaction. Companies in manufacturing, service, and information industries have all…
Strategies for Creativity
Frank K. SonnenbergWhen was the last time that someone from your organization came up with a good idea? Do you reward innovation or stifle it with politics, protocol, and procrastination? Do you…
A Vision to Look Beyond Cost Control
Peter G. VajtaWhether driven by a desire to thwart the advances of unwanted investors playing the buyout game or driven by the pressure of new and global competitors, U.S. industry has embraced…
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