The Journal reports that companies that choose to downsize often find that "profits are hurt, customers and suppliers lost, employees miffed." The story looks at mistakes that Kodak, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., Continental Airlines and Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance have made in their efforts to save money.
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