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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. Successful spin-offs tend to have a management team that comprises both insiders and outsiders. In addition to sheer luck, three categories of factors could explain differences in the performance of divested businesses.

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To Grow, Social Enterprises Must Play by Business Rules

Harvard Business Review

It's an example of an organization seeking to meet this challenge of scale by providing top-tier, in-kind expertise and working capital to promising social enterprises. Since it started its work in December 2010, SBT has invested in five social enterprises, which have since collectively increased their revenues by 77%.

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Telecom's Competitive Solution: Outsourcing?

Harvard Business Review

Already, the popularity of the iPhone app store and the iPhone device itself has given credence to a purchasing phenomenon and the clout a device company can have on a telecom carrier's success. Due to huge capital requirements, these investments could exert considerable pressure on the working capital of the carrier company.

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Interview with Sramana Mitra on 1M/1M Program

Rajesh Setty

Through the spring of 2010, we released four volumes of EJ books and continued to experiment with the roundtables, which became increasingly popular. Meanwhile, in January 2010 my New Year’s resolution was published. By April 2010, the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) global initiative had been formally named.