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A business exit strategy is a plan that a business owner or entrepreneur establishes to sell their ownership in a company to investors or another company, or to cease operations entirely. An effective ...

An HBR Executive Masterclass with Roger L. Martin. Planning and strategy are two fundamentally different actions—and conflating them undermines performance. Planning is about allocating resources and ...