Chrysler's strength demonstrates that even a North American legacy auto company can achieve durable success by coming up with a continual stream of new or improved vehicles--the Jeep division has great new products on line and in the pipeline--and by paying painstaking attention to costs.

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Because it's so hot right now, Apple is able to take a go-it-alone approach to product releases, summoning the world's tech media to the Bay Area for press conferences that focus only on its new products and bottom line.

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Still in charge, the Lauder family has managed to roll out lucrative new products and make smart acquisitions around its core products line while keeping a lid on overhead.

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While its original daily deals focused on services offered by third parties, its new business line sells products directly from Groupon.

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