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CEOs Don’t Care Enough About Capital Allocation

Harvard Business Review

” A quarter century later, not much seems to have changed: fewer than five out of the 100 CEOs on HBR’s 2014 list of best-performing CEOs even mention “return on capital” on their official biography — and none of those five lead companies listed in the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) or in the EuroStoxx50. .”

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Make Serendipity Work for You

Harvard Business Review

Google outgoing CEO Eric Schmidt liked to think of his online search tool as a "serendipity engine.". Merton and Elinor Barber.). If serendipity is a capability, then how is it developed, protected and sustained? All the above discoveries were serendipitous, yet much less lucky than popularly believed. Watson and Crick did.

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