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The curse of too much capital: Building businesses in large corporations

Driven by ever-increasing equity market valuations and growth challenges, many large corporations are bestirring themselves to build new enterprises that have the potential to grow much faster than their core businesses. Yet in doing so, senior managers at the parent companies often make the...

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