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Why Was Goldman Sachs Having Trouble Recruiting the Best and Brightest

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Why was Goldman Sachs having trouble recruiting the best and brightest MBAs, finding itself competing for talent with high tech firms like Amazon, Google, and Facebook? What lessons can be learned about how culture impacts the strategy execution effort?


Definitions:

Economic Profit

The difference between total revenue and total costs, including both explicit and implicit costs, indicating the financial performance and profitability from an economic standpoint beyond just accounting profit.

Purely Competitive

A market structure characterized by a large number of sellers and buyers where each has a negligible impact on market price and outcomes.

Profit-maximizing Level

The point at which a firm achieves the highest possible profit, where marginal revenue equals marginal cost.

Average Variable Cost

The total variable costs (costs that change with the level of output) of a firm divided by the quantity of output produced.

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