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How to Pull Your Company Out of a Tailspin

Harvard Business Review

Think of Kodak, which in the 1990s was the apparently unassailable leader in its market, with 80% market share in its core film business. Founded in the 1930s, Lego developed a repeatable model that allowed it to grow for decades. Enter Andreas Kaufmann, an Austrian investor who acquired a controlling stake in Leica in 2006.

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What Gamers Can Teach Us About Fraud

Harvard Business Review

Valve Corporation's game platform, Steam , developed an anti-cheat solution in 2006 after it detected 10,000 cheating attempts in a single week. As of 2012, it had terminated more than 1.5 This allowed the game developer to immediately freeze accounts for those advancing too quickly — thereby plugging the revenue hole.