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The Economist annual Innovation Award (1of 8) goes to Reckitt Benckiser. Explore some of the reasons why!

December 27th, 2009

Reckitt Benckiser (RB) was awarded The Economist’s very prestigious annual Innovation Award on October 29th, 2009, for its “innovative and entrepreneurial corporate culture”. W&P sets out to parse RB’s culture and we get about 50% done based on the information which we can access. Perhaps others can help? You can download a copy - from […]

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GE - the decision to off load its media assets

December 2nd, 2009

It should come as no surprise that GE is off loading its media assets. Why? One major reason is that the culture of GE is dramatically different from the media business and, over the long term, just does not fit. GE thinks long term, its initiatives are based on an understanding of R&D spending, and the company […]

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