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Innovations in Control: Do you have the right cost of capital for today’s environment?

By John Julius Sviokla | Published July 9, 2010

This post is co-author Joseph Calandro, Jr., author of Applied Value Investing (NY: McGraw-Hill, 2009). One of the most important and overlooked innovations in business are the innovations in internal controls and measurement.  The duPont company famously invented their duPont formula which helped their.

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Speed Selling & Innovation: Lessons from the master

By John Julius Sviokla | Published June 6, 2010

I want to post some additional thoughts about Gordon Bell’s comments on my previous post on speed selling and innovation.  For those of use who know Gordon, he is a person who defies categorization.  (He is also one of our Diamond Fellows.)  He is.

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