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Second, “stars” who moved to new organizations in teams or “packs” performed better than those who moved individually, for their relationships with each other made it easier to replicate the conditions that had made them successful in the first place. Dr. Groysberg called such connections “relationship human capital.” And for Mr. DePodesta, 38, who regards “Moneyball” as a treatise not on how to evaluate athletic talent but on how to exploit “stagnant systems,
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First, those analysts who moved from “low-rated firms to high-rated firms” improved their performance, for they were surrounded in their new jobs by more plentiful and useful resources. The Mets,
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