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Thoughts That Make You Go Hmmm … on “Good Company”

The Practical Leader

” “… studies find that primary contributors to employee commitment include : management concern for employees and customers. “ Structural cohesion is an employee-generated synergy — essentially a close-knit, high-energy culture — that propels the company forward.”

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Startup Accelerators Have Become More Popular in Emerging Markets — and They’re Working

Harvard Business Review

For decades, we have heard that emerging markets are poised for huge growth that will yield even greater prosperity. Much like their famed Silicon Valley counterparts, emerging market accelerators aim to boost startups’ potential for raising growth capital.

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Venture Capitalists Get Paid Well to Lose Money

Harvard Business Review

Booming public equities and a recovered IPO market generated record portfolio company exits and distributions from VC funds. A VC firm is, first and foremost, an investment vehicle created to generate returns for investors that exceed those available in the fully liquid, low cost public equity markets.

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The Most Innovative Companies Have Long-Term Leadership

Harvard Business Review

The M&A markets are frothy, corporations are investing in Silicon Valley labs, and even PhDs looking for jobs in business schools are finding it tough to find homes without “innovation” somewhere in their background. But it’s an idea that demands attention, investment, and a long view of the market.

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The Best Companies Invest Aggressively in These 3 Areas

Harvard Business Review

We were reminded of this a few years ago, when we studied a major European conglomerate with more than 50 distinct businesses spread across dozens of markets. “Talent management is easily over a third of all executive time when you count it all,” one long-standing company employee told us about how the company is run.

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Startups Can’t Revolve Around Their Founders If They Want to Succeed

Harvard Business Review

To borrow an analogy from our Harvard Business School colleague Shikhar Ghosh, their firms aren’t murdered by the market; they commit suicide because the founders can’t or won’t adapt to the organizations’ changing needs. Also, there is a difference between managing scale and getting to scale.

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?Numbers Show Apple Shareholders Have Already Gotten Plenty

Harvard Business Review

Icahn later reduced his buyback request to $50 billion, and in April 2014 Apple’s board approved a $30 billion program to be carried out by repurchasing its shares on the open market — either by just buying shares outright or doing it indirectly via accelerated share repurchases.