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LVMH, Hermès, and the Danger of Going 'A Little Bit Public'

Harvard Business Review

Academically, there are a multitude of studies which have found one superior to the other, in a variety of different markets, country, and controlling group cultures. However, as a result of pressure by some family members to cash out of the company in the early 1990s, the company listed 25% of its voting shares on the public market.

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Trust, Transparency and Value — How Google Is Working to Improve Online Advertising for Everyone - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM GOOGLE

Harvard Business Review

By Sridhar Ramaswamy, Senior Vice President of Ads & Commerce, Google. Advertising helps reduce the digital divide, empowers creative voices and spurs global economic opportunity. Advertising helps reduce the digital divide, empowers creative voices and spurs global economic opportunity. And we aren’t alone.