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Profit Is Less About Good Management than You Think

Harvard Business Review

.” Value investors like Graham and Buffett believe that the sources of sustainable returns on capital are not a company’s human assets but their so-called “economic moats,” structural, durable competitive advantages around revenues or costs. So is there something different about the managers who do succeed?

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On Creative Accounting: Two Creativity Myths

Harvard Business Review

Created by Robert Kaplan and David Norton in the 1990s, this system for assessing organizational performance builds on, but goes way beyond, traditional accounting methods. The Balanced Scorecard's primary form of novelty is that it takes into account the intangible assets that are so crucial for information-age companies.