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How to Know If a Spin-Off Will Succeed

Harvard Business Review

A 2010 meta-analysis detailed many of the different issues that make divestiture so hard to evaluate consistently. And while luck plays a much bigger role in explaining business success than managers like to believe, as Daniel Kahneman points out, the examples here clearly demonstrate that you can always give luck a helping hand.