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Make Your Work Resolutions Stick

Harvard Business Review

” At the beginning of 2013, she decided it was finally time. Susan has grown revenue over 100% CAGR since she took over, and the company has nearly 400 employees. In fact, she wrote a manuscript for a leadership book back in 2007, but lost it because of a computer malfunction. “But over time it just kept gnawing at me.”

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Research Shows That Smaller M&A Deals Work Out Better

Harvard Business Review

WPP began the period in the middle of the pack, with an average economic profit of $8 million, but ended with a top-quintile-worthy $677 million and saw an 11% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) in total shareholder return over the decade. Axel Springer followed a similar path. Making M&A Part of a Combination Play.

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How We Think About Innovation at Cisco

Harvard Business Review

In the manufacturing sector alone, market intelligence firm IDC expects the IoT market to grow to about $100 billion by 2018, a five-year combined annual growth rate (CAGR) of 18%. Gartner predicts that there will be more than 6.4 To keep up, new standards, architectures, and infrastructures will have to develop at the same pace.

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3 Reasons Global Firms Should Keep Investing in India

Harvard Business Review

Amazon entered India in 2013 when two local Indian companies, Flipkart and Snapdeal, had already established themselves as market leaders in eCommerce – and still rose to become the #1 online retailer in India. The country has over 350 million smart phones and this number is growing 25% CAGR.