In a recent post on Harvard Business Review bloggers network, we discuss the extreme focus business model of Germany’s famed Mittlestand:
Quick test: name one company that does one thing and does it very well. The companies that occupy the limelight are typically diversified giants that achieve growth through constant expansion into new markets and the introduction of additional product lines (just think P&G, GE, and Microsoft).… Read more
Permanent link to this article: http://blog.insead.edu/2013/02/extreme-focus-and-the-success-of-germanys-mittelstand/
As I am preparing for a teaching session in a couple of weeks in Moscow, I realized that we had not written about one of the older but even more relevant today innovation. Some months back I blogged about a very cool startup Diapers.com which was founded by my former students in 2005 and which was recently acquired by Amazon.com.… Read more
Permanent link to this article: http://blog.insead.edu/2012/01/changing-the-way-people-give/
