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Exclusive: Jim Collins on ‘Thriving In Chaos’

Chief Executive

But they had this march, which was doubling components at affordable cost every 18 to 24 months, no matter what, like clockwork. It speaks to figuring out what that one key metric is that moves your business, and committing to it over and over. We systematically studied luck events and studied the role of luck: good luck, bad luck.

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4 Types of Activist Investors and How to Spot Them

Harvard Business Review

Based on my work studying activist strategies, I’ve outlined four hypothetical scenarios below (based on actual events) that demonstrate the different strategies an activist could pursue. However, free cash flow per share remained impressive at both companies, and fixed cost ratios remained somewhat intact.

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The U.S. Media’s Problems Are Much Bigger than Fake News and Filter Bubbles

Harvard Business Review

Critics across the political spectrum have said that fake news and cyberattacks played a big role in determining the course of events. But in the last two contests in which Hillary Clinton has participated, the 2008 primary and the 2016 election, she won on most of these metrics — and lost the elections. Spillovers.

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