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How to Know If a Spin-Off Will Succeed

Harvard Business Review

The first category is exogenous factors over which the business has little control: the growth of the markets into which it sells; the competitive intensity and thus the average profitability of the industry in which it operates; or the fragmentation of its industry and thus the scope for a growth-by-acquisition approach.

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How Could I Miss That? Jamie Dimon on the Hot Seat

Harvard Business Review

In 2011, the company dropped its requirement to exit investment positions when losses exceeded $20 million. At a meeting on April 8, Drew assured Dimon and the operating committee of JPMorgan that the trades were being well managed and would work out. housing market could collapse and trigger a global financial crisis.