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Profit Is Less About Good Management than You Think

Harvard Business Review

Benjamin Graham , the father of value investing, seldom met the managers of the companies he invested in because he felt they would tell him only what they wished him to hear and because he didn’t want to be influenced by impressions of personality. So is there something different about the managers who do succeed?

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How NASA Uses Telemedicine to Care for Astronauts in Space

Harvard Business Review

There is careful consideration of the “mission profile,” a broad set of factors that influence health and medical needs and risks, such as flight duration, launch and landing modes, medical evacuation capability, and time to definitive medical care. Training crew members to manage their care.

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What the Companies That Predict the Future Do Differently

Harvard Business Review

The information most likely to influence the future comes from looking out the window, not in the mirror. But while such information exchanges have become technically feasible, they are not yet financially beneficial to the information provider and difficult for the customer to value and incorporate into their management systems.