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The Complexity of Business Communication

CoachStation

They are all very useful tips that can make a sustained difference to how your teams perform. Compare Michael Porter’s competitive advantage definition: “Competitive advantage, sustainable or not, exists when a company makes economic rents, that is, their earnings exceed their costs (including cost of capital).”

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Case Study: A Short-Seller Crashes the Party

Harvard Business Review

But of course Hughes’s presentation was a tipping point. With the company’s share price sinking and its cost of capital rising, those deals might have to be put on hold. But when his marketing chief got a tip that a global snack industry website was about to publish an interview with Hughes about Terranola, A.J.