Profit From the Core 
Subtitle: Growth Strategy in an Era of Turbulence
Publisher: Harvard Business School Press
Published: February 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9781578512300
Subjects: Business strategy; Management - General; Corporate profits; Business/Economics; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Industrial management; Growth; Corporations; Corporate Finance; Entrepreneurship; Strategic Planning; Corporate & Business History - General
First sentence: Have you managed to grow your business profitably during the recent boom but find yourself running out of obvious paths to more and more profitable growth?
Description: "Ninety percent of companies worldwide failed to achieve sustained, profitable growth over the past decade. While current business wisdom calls for "new rules" for strategy and organization, a breakthrough book reveals that the answer to the growth dilemma actually lies in basic, enduring economic principles.

Based on a sweeping ten-year study of more than two thousand technology, service, and product companies in a variety of industries, Profit from the Core argues that most growth strategies fail to deliver value - or even destroy it - primarily because they wrongly diversify from the core business.

The authors contend that this timeless strategic precept - building market power in a well-defined core - remains the key source of competitive advantage and the most viable platform for successful expansion."--BOOK JACKET.