Operational Platform and Growth: A Strategic Challenge

Elsborg, Jacob

doi:10.1057/9781137328878_23

Jacob Elsborg³

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The global financial crisis has been tough, and experts have varying views of future prospects. Some of the more optimistic analysts believe that the markets will surpass the 2007 levels in 2013 or 2014. The only possible conclusion to be drawn from comparing the various analyses is that the markets are not yet stable and that the higher level of volatility seen in the markets over the past couple of years will continue.

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ATP’s investment department, Italy
Jacob Elsborg (Head of Technology)

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Department of Information, Operations and Management Sciences at the Stern School of Business, New York University, USA
Michael Pinedo (Julius Schlesinger Professor of Operations Management and Chair) (Julius Schlesinger Professor of Operations Management and Chair)
New York University Stern School of Business, USA
Ingo Walter (President of SimCorpStrategyLab and the Seymour Milstein Professor of Finance, Corporate Governance and Ethics) (President of SimCorpStrategyLab and the Seymour Milstein Professor of Finance, Corporate Governance and Ethics)

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Elsborg, J. (2013). Operational Platform and Growth: A Strategic Challenge. In: Pinedo, M., Walter, I. (eds) Global Asset Management. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137328878_23

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