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Divest With Care

Harvard Business Review

GE's expertise at building and marketing engineered products is legendary, but media and entertainment call for different skills. Pfizer divested its consumer health care business in 2006, selling it to J&J for more than 20x EBITDA. Pfizer Inc. Pfizer Consumer Healthcare. A spectacular move — or was it? Gillette-Duracell.

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The $300 House: The Urban Challenge

Harvard Business Review

A 60,000 square foot factory floor, employing about 200 reasonably skilled and trained people, equipped with many automated CNC machines, turners and robotic-welders can produce about 3,000 home units per month in a one-shift work modulus. Poverty has fallen from 22 percent of the population to 7 percent between 2003 and 2009.

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Women, Finance the World You Want

Harvard Business Review

While Isis Parenting educates new parents, RedStamp makes it easier for people to stay in touch, and Catchafire pairs professionally skilled volunteers with meaningful pro bono experiences. found that between 2000 and 2009, hedge funds managed by women produced almost twice the returns of those run by men.