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September 10, 2019 Are Your Company's Strengths Really Weaknesses? By Adam Brandenburger An updated form of SWOT analysis can help you decide.

How Microsoft Builds a Sense of Community Among 144,000 Employees by Rasmus Hougaard, Jacqueline Carter, Kathleen Hogan It's partly about technology and partly about transparency. The Gap Between Large and Small Companies Is Growing. Why? by Vijay Govindarajan, Baruch Lev, Anup Srivastava, Luminita Enache For one thing, big firms are spending more and more on R&D. Ranking 42 Countries by Ease of Doing Digital Business by Bhaskar Chakravorti, Ravi Shankar Chaturvedi How easy is it for digital platforms to enter, operate, thrive, or exit in markets around the world? Why CEOs Surround M&A Announcements with Unrelated Good News by Daniel L. Gamache, Gerry McNamara, Scott D. Graffin, Jason T. Kiley, Jerayr Haleblian, Cynthia E. Devers It's a distraction tactic, according to one study.

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