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Jun 2024
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210. Transformation and new business bui...

McKinsey & Company
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We discuss the challenges and opportunities of building new businesses within an organization during a transformation. How should business leaders balance the need for transformation with pursuing new business ventures? What is the role of strategy in business reinvention? What evidence is there that optimizing the core business and building new businesses translates into higher performance? 

Our guests are senior partner Chris Hagedorn and partners Matt Banholzer, and Ryan Nguyen.


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