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Chapter 1
1. Most of the book’s references to risk address one or both of these two varieties. However, we will occasionally refer as well to financial, technological, or other kinds of risk. In general, we believe that by mitigating information and incentive-alignment risks, you can often improve your firm’s ability to tolerate these other risk categories.
2. Andrew Martin, “Car Sharing Catches On as Zipcar Sells to Avis,” New York Times, January 2, 2013.
3. Sumner Redstone, A Passion to Win (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001), 284.
4. J. H. Mortimer, “Vertical Contracts in the Video Rental Industry,” Review of Economic Studies 75 (2008): 165–199. Mortimer attributes a 20 percent boost in industry profits solely to revenue-sharing contracts. ...
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