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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.". One fine day, he wrote, three princes from Serendip (modern-day Sri Lanka ) were sent by their father on a prolonged journey to acquire practical experience as part of their training. Merton and Elinor Barber.).

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