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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 9224520" data-attributes="member: 58197">I'm not a fan of big umbrella corps like Hasbro, period. They're a recipe for dysfunction.Companies generally run a lot better when the executives have a deep understanding of the company's operations. When the company's operations are oriented to a single product or line, it's possible to have this. (Not that you always do have it, sadly, but at least you can have it.)But when you have a giant conglomerate spanning everything from manufacturing board games to designing TTRPGs to creating computer games to making movies, no human being could ever have a deep understanding of them all. The best you can do is hire a good person with domain knowledge of each division to run that division, and manage them all with a light touch... but how do you pick those people? When you yourself lack domain knowledge, you have limited ability to assess the quality of your hires in that domain.And that's the best case, where the executive wants to run the company well over the long term and is self-aware enough to know their limitations. If the executive is mainly interested in financial engineering and justifying their own continued presence to the board, you get stuff like this.</blockquote>