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How Good Was Steve Jobs, Really?

Harvard Business Review

Steve Jobs landed the number one spot in our ranking of the best CEOs in the world, published in HBR in January 2010. That's almost 14 years as CEO — a long time, considering that the average CEO tenure for large U.S. In our CEO ranking, we used three metrics to score a CEO ( see the January 2010 article for the methodology ).

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Big Bets vs. Little Bets and the future of HP

Harvard Business Review

Barnholt calls it the tyranny of large numbers, explaining that "there's a natural tendency to think in terms of bigger bets as you get to be bigger.". In 1972, HP's first calculator, the HP-35, would retail at $400 at a time when the market for scientific calculators did not yet exist. Are you currently making small bets?

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