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Recommended Resources – Freakonomics

Strategy Driven

Levitt and. Levitt and Stephen J. You just finished reading Recommended Resources - Freakonomics ! Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. The post Recommended Resources – Freakonomics appeared first on StrategyDriven. Recommended Resources – The Complete Executive. by Steven D.

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Coronavirus Crisis: Reasons for Hope During These Dark Times

The Practical Leader

When Nobel Laureate, Michael Levitt, first analyzed Chinese infection rates, he tracked an increase of 30% per day in Hubei province. Stock markets should bounce back more quickly than the six years it took the Dow Jones Average from 2007 to 2013 to recover. ” Sources and More Resources.

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Can Chinese Smartphone Darling Xiaomi Compete in Western Markets?

Harvard Business Review

With a business model of at-cost hardware and software up-selling, it recently raised its 2013 sales targets from 15 million smartphones to 20 million, and is now gazing abroad. In the words of Harvard Business School marketing professor Theodore Levitt, “ People don’t want to buy a quarter-inch drill. They want a quarter-inch hole! ”.