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Corporate Inequality Is the Defining Fact of Business Today

Harvard Business Review

By ignoring the distribution, that statistic masks a more important trend: As the McKinsey Global Institute has documented , variance in corporate earnings has increased substantially as well. As McKinsey’s researchers write in their report : The most digitized sectors in the U.S. There’s Too Little Competition.

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What If Google Had a Hedge Fund?

Harvard Business Review

That's as true for a Walmart or a JCPenney as it is for a McKinsey & Co. The rising ability to identify, capture, and repurpose the data byproducts of an ongoing business is coming to rival the perceived "core competence" of the core business itself. or a PricewaterhouseCoopers.

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