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Collaboration as an Intangible Asset

Harvard Business Review

Interestingly, intangible assets are all the rage these days on Wall Street. Most intangible assets are real but invisible, and the most important invisible ability is the ability (or, perhaps better said, the probability) to collaborate. So, the question is: What are the most critical intangible assets in your company?

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Why Family Businesses Come Roaring out of Recessions

Harvard Business Review

Of course, the National Bureau of Economic Research classified two (2001 and 2008) of those 10 years as recession years. We found that family businesses handily outperformed non-family companies during both the 2001 and 2008 recessions in terms of a key metric, Tobin’s q. Leadership Marketing' during the growth years to 0.8

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Why We Shouldn’t Worry About the Declining Number of Public Companies

Harvard Business Review

Our conclusion is supported by the fact that in each of the first three five-year intervals in the 21st century, 2001−2005, 2005−2010, and 2011−2015, the largest number of net delists, defined as the number of delisting firms minus the number of listing firms, occurred in software, electronics, and computer industry.

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The U.S. Needs Tax Reform, Not Tax Cuts

Harvard Business Review

presidential administration and congressional leadership have spent months talking about tax reform. Getting tax reform done requires strong political leadership, significant input from government staffers with technical expertise, and development of a public consensus of the need for change. The current U.S.