For decades, innovative companies with disruptive ideas have achieved stunning stock market success by challenging tradition-bound industries that were unwilling or unable to adapt, writes Mark Baribeau, global head of equity at Jennison Associates.
For decades, innovative companies with disruptive ideas have achieved stunning stock market success by challenging tradition-bound industries that were unwilling or unable to adapt, writes Mark Baribeau, global head of equity at Jennison Associates. In the 1980s, pharmaceutical firms boosted research budgets to battle the planet's most deadly diseases. The digital revolution in the 1990s saw companies like Microsoft and Intel design software and hardware that powered the personal computer revolution. In the 2000s, upstarts such as Google and Amazon.com transformed the way people searc...
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