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Could a Four-Year-Old Do What Carl Icahn Does?

Harvard Business Review

billion in 2013, making him the fifth highest-paid fund manager in the land. In 2011 it was $2 billion , good for third place. After using borrowed money in the 1980s and 1990s, then opening up a hedge fund in 2004, he has since 2011 basically just been managing his own money. In 2012 it was $1.9 Why’s that?

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Should HSBC Stay or Should It Go?

Harvard Business Review

HBR Press, April 2011), very few firms are truly global in the sense that their business isn't concentrated in any one spot. He notes that as recently as 2004, less than one percent of all U.S. But as Pankaj Ghemawat points out in his forthcoming World 3.0 (HBR

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Great Companies Stay True to the Spirit of Their Founders

Harvard Business Review

That’s not just a hunch — among public companies since 1990, returns to shareholders were three times greater at firms where the founder is still part of the management team. Companies still run by their founders have a certain magic. This “spikiness” is the key to staying competitive, but it isn’t easy.