August 2001

Cash Flow Revisited; Why Hardly Any Successful Business is Just Snowboarding Anymore

Financial Management

I know it’s because of crossover, and the mainstreaming of action sports, and because we’re selling to parents as much as to kids. I know all that. Largely, I believe it. I just did my occasional and not nearly frequent enough sojourn into a bunch of local snowboard retail stores, big and small, and looked at what they’re […]

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A Good Snow Year Does Not Make Us Heroes of Management; A Minor Reality Check

Snowboarding, Strategy

1980- Michael Porter, the Harvard strategy Guru published Competitive Strategy.   In it, he discusses how industries change, and how companies have to change, as they transition from growth to maturity.  I want to look briefly at what Porter says stereotypically happens during this transition and see how it applies to the winter resort business. Like all

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