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Telecom's Competitive Solution: Outsourcing?

Harvard Business Review

Skype , for example, competes with fixed-line carriers by offering free mobile Skype calls. Google has its own contender in the market, Google Voice. Due to huge capital requirements, these investments could exert considerable pressure on the working capital of the carrier company. In the U.S.,

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How to Know If a Spin-Off Will Succeed

Harvard Business Review

The first category is exogenous factors over which the business has little control: the growth of the markets into which it sells; the competitive intensity and thus the average profitability of the industry in which it operates; or the fragmentation of its industry and thus the scope for a growth-by-acquisition approach.

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We Can’t Study Short-Termism Without the Right Metrics

Harvard Business Review

However, higher accruals can reflect either innocuous aspects of certain business models, such as in the construction industry, where the time lag between earning income and realizing cash is long, or that growing firms retain higher working capital to meet greater current and future customer demand. Are all share repurchases myopic?

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