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

Harvard Business Review

Besides, both of these companies are publicly traded, and both are still largely controlled by a small investor group or influential leadership team. Professor Michael Moffett is Continental Grain Professor of Finance, and Professor Kannan Ramaswamy holds the William D. Both companies are managed by professionals.

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A New Framework for Customer Segmentation

Harvard Business Review

In one presentation, we were exuberant about Big Data and Little Data, and in the next, speaking what seemed to be 1960''s voodoo psychographic language. They just ignored them.