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How the Mulliez family built a thriving entrepreneurial ecosystem

43 minutes ago • by Peter Vogel, Anouk Lavoie Orlick in Family business • 8 min read

Antoine Mayaud, a shareholder and member of the Association Familiale Mulliez (AFM) behind Decathlon and Auchan, explains how the family embedded entrepreneurship into its culture and processes, creating a system that repeatedly...

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The ‘Magnificent Seven’ (M7): Assessing their contribution to the performance of US publicly listed firms

February 20, 2024 • by Camilla Erencin, Simon J. Evenett, Pierre Ledan, Felix Reitz in Crux of Capitalism • 5 min read

Data from the Crux of Capitalism finds that the ‘Magnificent Seven' “tech” stocks – Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Tesla – together accounted for 32% of the economic profit of...

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Navigating luxury in an era of economic uncertainty: Strategies for success

February 14, 2024 • by Stéphane J. G. Girod, Jana M. Arden, Barbara Rybka in Luxury • 8 min read

With the global economy facing its slowest growth in three decades, luxury brands are facing challenges from shifting consumer behaviors to geopolitical tensions. Navigating them requires innovative approaches to digitalization at scale....

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