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Growing Entrepreneurs And Entrepreneurship: Lessons From Estonia

The Horizons Tracker

Being able to effectively support entrepreneurship and entrepreneurs is increasingly important as more and more of us have taken the entrepreneurial career path during the pandemic. This helps both in terms of coming up with novel ideas for new businesses and also attracting the finance to help them to grow. An entrepreneurial nation.

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Serving on Boards Helps Executives Get Promoted

Harvard Business Review

More than 25 years ago, William Sahlman wrote the HBR article “Why Sane People Shouldn’t Serve on Public Boards,” in which he compared serving on a board to driving without a seatbelt, that it was just too risky—to their time, reputations, and finances—for too little reward. ” Similarly, Sempra CEO Debra L.

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To Close a Deal, Find a Champion

Harvard Business Review

These were all true of Charlie, a champion I met in 2004 just as the tech world was beginning to show signs of life after the dot com implosion. In many cases, it is more closely linked to getting the green light than even financing and business fundamentals. These champions strive to improve their own career prospects.

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How to Know If Joining a Startup Is Right for You

Harvard Business Review

You’re thinking about making a career change (or perhaps getting your first real job out of grad school), and you’re looking at different types of organizations. But in an age when Google and Facebook — founded in 1998 and 2004, respectively — are two of the biggest companies in the world, those days are over.

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What Apple Should Do with Its Massive Piles of Money

Harvard Business Review

Rather, I am an academic economist who, through in-depth studies of high-tech companies and industries, has come to the conclusion that stock buybacks are eroding the foundations of economic prosperity in the United States. Yet these careers and the returns that they can generate are not guaranteed. I disagree with this priority.