Even the greatest basketball teams often have one, and sometimes even two players who are barely better than mediocre. What matters in basketball is not how good your fifth player is, it's how good your super star is. I think the week strong link distinction is incredibly useful in making sense of certain kinds of problems. Upgrading a super star doesn't help as much as up grading the worst player.
In the early ’90s, Hank Rowan gave $100 million to a tiny public university in Glassboro, New Jersey: not Harvard, not Yale, not even to his alma mater, MIT. What was Rowan thinking? And why has it proven so difficult for other philanthropists to follow his lead?
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