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        organizational culture (cont)    production (cont)
         risk management see risk          planned obsolescence  324–25
          management                       process simplification  296–99  R
          Shamrock Organization theory       product quality and customer
          77                               loyalty  265–67
          tolerant  74–75                  product superiority and        R&D
          visual aspects  108              technological change  36,        applying and testing ideas  310–11
          see also equity and performance;   37–38                          big data analysis  316–17
          leadership; management;          quality products and design       and differentiation strategy  181–82,
          shareholders                     320–23                           183
                                           simultaneous engineering         and market research  310–11
                                           326–27                           multidisciplinary aspect  311
        P                                  time-based management  326–27    reinvesting profits  301
                                           see also waste reduction
                                                                            see also innovation
                                         profit levels                     Ratners  238
                                           and business ethics  122–23    Reeves, Rosser  29, 31
        Paccar  215                        multinationals and profit shifting     risk management  40–41, 157
        Page, Larry  174                   222                              bankruptcy, protection against 141–42
        Pears soap  273                    price-fixing and competitiveness      black swan events and future
        performance, and equity see equity   222–23, 239                    forecasting  198
          and performance                  pushing to highest feasible point       capability maturity model  218–19
        Peters, Tom  55, 221, 298, 307,    121                              contingency planning  210
          338                              quality and premium prices       diversification  257
        Pixar  83                          266–67                           employees, and firm failures  142–43
        Ponzi schemes  153                 reinvesting profits  301          equity and performance  142–43,
        Porter, Michael  180–82, 184, 197,     shareholders and profit       156–57
          212–15, 218–19                   maximization  124–25, 237–38     executives and CEOs  143–44
        Post-it Notes  42, 165             stock management  294–95         feedback, relevance of  109
        Prahalad, C. K.  171, 256, 338     versus cash flow  152–53          and financial crises  151, 154
        price-fixing, and competitiveness      see also financial strategy    financial risk and other people’s
          222–23, 239                    Progressive Corp.  316–17          money  140–45
        Primark  136–37                                                     and income inequality  145
        Procter and Gamble  38–39, 72–73,                                   and learning organization  207
          89, 233, 260, 273                                                 leverage and debt levels  150–51
        production                       Q                                  micropreneurism  63
          Business Process Reengineering                                    off-balance-sheet risk  154
          (BPR) programs  308–09                                           organizational culture see
          cash cow and product assessment    quality                        organizational culture
          252–55                           circles and teamwork  305–06,      pre-pack administration  141–42
          custom production  298           308                              return on equity (ROE), maximizing
          direct-selling  298–99           and premium prices  266–67       155
          distribution system  239         product quality and customer loyalty      sales forecasting  278–79
          growth-share matrix and product   265–67                          scenario planning  211
          portfolio  253–55                product superiority and technological    shareholders  140–41, 144, 145
          improvement and innovation       change  36, 37–38                start-ups  20–21, 41
          296–99                           products and design  320–23      taxpayer bailouts and too-big-to-fail
          lean production  290–93,         products and value analysis  323  firms  144–45
          307–08                           provision and customer service      unconsolidated subsidiaries  154
          mass production  297–98          322–23                           see also complacency avoidance;
          new features, promotion of  325    Total Quality Management  56   strategic management
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