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What’s Driving Superstar Companies, Industries, and Cities

Harvard Business Review

These firms make up two thirds of global corporate pretax earnings (EBTDA) and revenues. To analyze the superstar dynamics of firms, our metric was economic profit, a measure of a firm’s profit above and beyond opportunity cost. (To The bottom 10% destroy roughly as much economic value as the superstar firms create.