Untangling Skill and Luck
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 7, 2011
Take, for instance, a group of companies that currently have high returns on invested capital (ROIC). If you follow that group over time, you would see their ROICs revert back toward the cost of capital. As important, the rate of reversion to the mean is a function of the relative contribution of luck.
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