Corporate Strategy IG

Certain owner-manager competences help firms experience growth — but family dynamics can hinder the ability to leverage those elements

Just last month, McKinsey reported on a slower growth period for private markets. “As private market managers look to boost performance in this new era of investing,” the authors wrote,…

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SMJ: Study Highlights How New Establishments of Parent Firms Outperform Spinouts

Spinouts, or new ventures started by employees leaving a parent firm, often outperform other types of new firms. But a new study published in Strategic Management Journal finds that when parent firms identify and…

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SMJ: New Study Shows Drug Manufacturers Actually Increased Opioid Marketing after Kentucky’s Purdue Pharma Lawsuit

Kentucky’s 2007 lawsuit against Purdue Pharma marked a major turn in the opioid crisis. It was the first time a member of the Sackler family, who owned Purdue, was deposed…

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Strategic Management Journal article “Innovation and profitability following antitrust intervention against a dominant platform: The wild, wild west?”

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Corporate Strategy Masterclass on M&As

Join the SMS Corporate Strategy Interest Group for their seventh Masterclass. Professors Laurence Capron (INSEAD) and Melissa Graebner (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) discuss the topic of Mergers & Acquisitions…

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GSJ Video Abstract | Making Birkinshaw and Hood’s framework actionable

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Corporate Strategy Interest Group

The Corporate Strategy Interest Group considers the actions associated with changing the firm’s scope and profile of business lines including vertical integration, mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, corporate diversification strategy/organization, implementation, and performance.

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Don’t Trap Your Customers

by Niloofar Abolfathi Industry changes that lower customer frictions can be surprisingly beneficial for companies. Building on the global telecommunications industry, we document how a reduction in customer switching costs…

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Why Should Managers Care About Their Alliance Partner’s Acquisitions?

by Dovev Lavie, Randy Lunnan, and Binh Minh T. Truong Managers consider alliances and acquisitions as alternative choices for creating value, yet a recent study reveals that the value of…

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Can Established Companies Adapt From Product Strategies to Ecosystem Strategies?

By J Katherine Bahr The largest and fastest growing companies of the 21st century almost unilaterally seem to leverage an ecosystem strategy: putting themselves at the center of a platform…

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