Sally and Anderson looked at the top socker clubs in europe. They found that if teams upgraded their poorest players instead of their best, they would score more goals and win more games. Sally: Socker is a weaklink game. Yes, having a better super star was, of course better. But actually having a better end of the bench, or eleventh guy on the pitch was actually more influential too whether you won matches or not.
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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