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Anthony Y. Strike ’78 graduated from Harvard Business School in 1982, worked for Bain & Company in Boston and now is president of several companies that license technology to textile mills and garment manufacturers and franchise One Hour Martinizing Dry Cleaning stores. He lives in Cincinnati, Ohio with his wife Katie and their six children...
...their core competencies, those specific tasks and skills that a particular firm does better than anyone else. So let’s take a look at you guys and see what your core competencies are. Most people would suggest that consulting firms like McKinsey, Boston Consulting Group and Bain excel at offering critical, unbiased strategy advice to Fortune 500 companies. Similarly, the conventional wisdom holds that Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and J.P. Morgan sell shares of companies to the public, facilitate mergers and acquisitions, and help wealthy individuals stay wealthy...
...however, share some common traits, from good labor relations to contingency plans. Smart CEOs avoid across-the-board layoffs, instead making careful cuts that don't deplete their talent pool. And the savviest bosses stay aggressive, often using downturns to "become savvy acquirers," says Orit Gadiesh, chairman of Bain & Co., a Boston-based consulting firm. GE Capital, for instance, went on a buying binge during the Asian financial crisis a few years ago. Above all, while mediocre firms often flail around for a new strategy to deal with a downturn, the best companies just keep on doing well what they...
...many as 250 incubators sprang up around Europe in the dotcom boom. Through mergers or natural attrition, as few as 10 could go the distance in the next phase of the New Economy. Reinvention, it seems, is the key to survival: at bainlab, the incubator division of consultants Bain & Company, the focus has expanded from simply incubating small companies to include consulting work and due diligence for other venture capitalists looking to invest. The talk too is of corporate ventures - helping those strong Old Economy firms that have outlasted the first Internet wave find their feet online. Other incubators...
...course, all this caution has given rise to concern that, after the hype of the Internet's infancy in Europe, the pendulum has swung too far the other way. "Venture capital should be a risk-long business," says Nick Greenspan, a partner at Bain & Company and co-founder of bainlab. "Instead, it's become extremely risk-averse." Jerome Mol, founder and ceo of GorillaPark, says investors are judging European companies by American standards even though the U.S. market is larger and more advanced...