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Eugene A. Fitzgerald: An interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

He received a BS degree in Materials Science and Engineering in 1985 from MIT and his PhD in the same discipline from Cornell University in 1989. Fitzgerald was born in Springfield, MA, USA.

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CEOs Don’t Care Enough About Capital Allocation

Harvard Business Review

It’s been more than 50 years since Nobel prizewinners Franco Modigliani and Merton Miller identified return on investments as a major component of value creation (and value destruction). This failure to even mention return on capital seems perverse. It is, in fact, the salt in the value recipe.

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Make Serendipity Work for You

Harvard Business Review

Google outgoing CEO Eric Schmidt liked to think of his online search tool as a "serendipity engine.". Merton and Elinor Barber.). All the above discoveries were serendipitous, yet much less lucky than popularly believed. The princes did far more than make chance observations.

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What an Economist Brings to a Business Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Google generates most of its revenue through an auction-based system of selling ads that was developed by two engineers but validated by its chief economist, Hal Varian, a former consultant to the company who was also the first Dean of the School of Information Sciences at the University of California at Berkeley.