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Calculating the Market Value of Leadership

Harvard Business Review

In recent years, investors have learned that defining the market value of a firm cannot just be based on finances. intellectual, emotional, social, physical, and ethical behaviors)? But recently, these financial outcomes have been found to predict only about 50% of a firm’s market value.

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How Merck Is Trying to Keep Disrupters at Bay

Harvard Business Review

EB operates Ilum as a separate business, while still drawing on Merck’s established corporate resources in IT, finance, privacy, compliance, and legal. EB plays the role of a venture capitalist or private-equity board with responsibility to sell, spin-out, or wind-down initiatives that, in practice, are found to be a poor strategic fit.

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Robo-Advisers Are Coming to Consulting and Corporate Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Further, venture capitalists are jumping in with both feet. $4 Companies in every industry can benefit from making more data and algorithm-based decisions in areas of internal operations and finance. It seems only logical that they would extend into corporate strategy and finance.