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When giants stumble / Robert Sobel.

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Internet Archive)
Main Author:	Sobel, Robert, 1931 February 19-1999
Other title:	Subtitle on jacket: Classic business blunders and how to avoid them.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Paramus, N.J. : Prentice Hall, ©1999.
Subjects:	Business failures > United States > Case studies. Success in business > United States > Case studies. Business failures. Success in business. United States. Case studies.

Table of Contents:

Osborne Computer: the blunder of ineptitude
E.J. Korvette: the blunder of hubris
Kaiser-Frazer: the blunder of ignorance
RCA: the blunder of nepotism
W.R. Grace: the blunder of nonstrategic expansion
Packard: the blunder of downward brand extension
Schlitz and Pabst: the blunder of cutting corners
James Ling: the blunder of fighting the government
Drexel Burnham Lambert: the blunder of isolation
The Penn Central: the blunder of the mismatch
Pan American World Airways: the blunder of dependency
Montgomery Ward: the blunder of the stopped clock
American tobacco: the blunder of standing pat
The New York Stock Exchange: the blunder of the narrow view
Schwinn: multiple blunders.