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Review title: NOT Great Companies in the Study!
Product review: I got to page 7, where they listed the 11 'carefully selected' companies that the book's management theories are based off of. Circuit City - BANKRUPT. FANNIE MAE, you've just GOT to be kidding me! - This was a government sponsored entity to begin with, and since their HUGE contribution to the housing bubble, the government fully owns all of their debt!To be fair, this was written in 2001, and the study was done over the 5 years before that. But these failed "Great Companies" seem to add much discredit to the study and the theories. There were several reviews about the poor study methods, and it seems that to put a government-sponsored entity as 1 of the 11 companies in the study is definitely a flawed approach.
