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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. The bottom 10% destroy roughly as much economic value as the superstar firms create. But this is also mirrored by firms in the bottom 10%, which account for 1.5 Superstar firms create 1.6 times more economic loss today than 20 years ago.