Stephan's Friday Picks

• Welcome to pricing hell (The Atlantic)
• Bayer, Nestle, Unilever, and other multinationals cut back in Africa (Bloomberg)
• Five truths (and one lie) about corporate transformations (BCG)
• Inside Amazon's secret operation to gather intel on rivals (WSJ)
• From the archives (1997): Despite rebound by Amazon, more internet rivalry is ahead (WSJ)