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...“We want our growth factors to stay pure, stable and active through the lifetime of the product,” she says....
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...The risks are so complex, says Richard Aboulafia, an analyst at Virginia-based Teal Group, an aerospace market research firm, that successful companies generally need a degree of luck....
...PPR, which owns Gucci Group, received a D, as did Swatch and Richmont, the Swiss watch and jewellery groups. The highest grade – a C+ – was awarded to Hermés, L’Oréal, and LVMH....
...However research on international strategic alliances highlights a substantial failure rate for such partnerships and a lack of knowledge about success factors for partner selection (Hitt et al., 2000)....
...A fortune can be made selling the “long tail” of other products. MAVERICKS AT WORK: Why the Most Original Minds in Business Win by William C Taylor and Polly G....
...THE WORLD IS FLAT by Thomas L....
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