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Design Can Drive Exceptional Returns for Shareholders

Harvard Business Review

The index was constructed in the same fashion as other indexes that seek to isolate an industry sector (banking, biotech), geography (China), or size (large cap), for example. In Interbrand’s 2013 list of the World’s most valuable brands , Nike ranks 24 th , two slots up from the prior year and a 13% increase in value to $17.085 billion.

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Could a Four-Year-Old Do What Carl Icahn Does?

Harvard Business Review

billion in 2013, making him the fifth highest-paid fund manager in the land. And now, just after passing the average life expectancy for an American male , he seems to be in the midst of the best run of his career. But Icahn’s campaign to get eBay to spin off PayPal succeeded last month. Then Andreessen quit the board. Why’s that?

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The Great Leap Generation F Needs to Make

Harvard Business Review

I’ve suggested for many years that we are living through a zombieconomy – where the economy seems to stagger forward in a lifelike fashion, but it’s really just a reanimated corpse. We can’t get jobs—much less careers. Consider the following: 1. The global economy is broken. Think again. The jobs we can get are awful.