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What If Google Had a Hedge Fund?

Harvard Business Review

With the company's retail insights into the browsing, shopping, and purchasing behaviors of its customers, its views into entrepreneurial investment through its Web Services offering, and its Kindle and Fire media consumption devices, Amazon is extraordinarily well-positioned to strategically invest in explicit companies or particular sectors.

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March 2013 Leadership Development Carnival

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

Welcome to the March 2013 Leadership Development Carnival! Thanks to those who contributed the many excellent posts on leadership practices, the workplace environment and personal mastery. And a special thanks to carnival leader Dan McCarthy at Great Leadership for the invitation to host this carnival.

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The Big Picture of Business – Business Lessons to be Learned from the Enron Scandal

Strategy Driven

These observations are intended to contextualize the Enron case studies in broader terms than were reported in the news media: Conditions Which Allowed It to Occur. It was a public and media curiosity, though becoming a good opportunity for the public to understand business better. Core Business. The News Media.