Governance costs and vertical integration 2.0

Andrew Boysen
9 min readOct 12, 2023

Synergistic portfolio framework

This framework pulls together several previous concepts to better understand where business units or external business partners fit as part of a portfolio. Defining the characteristics of the synergies to be created, and whether they are one- or two-sided (asymmetric or symmetric) is critical for thinking about this framework…

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Andrew Boysen

Assistant professor @kenanflagler strategy and entrepreneurship.