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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. Dimon likely would not have approved of the bets if he had known they were occurring.

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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.