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Anything Worth Having Is Worth Waiting For: The Myth of Instant Gratification

Ask shoppers what they want and you’ll find they want it all — good quality products, wide selection, low prices — and they want it all now. That is the reason that Amazon.com gives every other retailer fits because in the first of those three wants, Amazon pretty well beats all comers. On the last, instant gratification, […]

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What Went Wrong at PIRCH

There is a myth in business that after a company rises to the top in the business press with cover stories in Forbes, Fortune, and Business Week that it’s headed for a fall. Called the “Fortune Cover Curse,” Gawker’s Owen Thomas reports there is statistical evidence behind the curse. “Headlines from featured stories in Business […]