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Just How Risky Is Entrepreneurship, Really?

Harvard Business Review

Steve Jobs , Mark Zuckerberg, and Michael Dell make fine fodder for commencement speeches, but when parents and career counselors thrust graduates into the job market, the default isn't entrepreneurship, it's corporate serfdom.

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How CFOs Can Take the Long-Term View in a Short-Term Economy

Harvard Business Review

In 2010, when Mark Bertolini, CEO of Aetna, began articulating a strategy to invest billions to transform from a health insurance company to a health care company, analysts grumbled. In 2012, John Deere CEO Samuel Allen began releasing long-term, aspirational revenue targets for 2018. “Then get out of our stock.”

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Political Ideology Affects How CEOs Behave

The Horizons Tracker

” Higher risk When venturing into new markets, acquisitions carry a higher level of risk compared to alliances, but they offer a greater degree of control. Influencing strategy Subsequently, the researchers analyzed how these ideological inclinations influenced the international strategies pursued by these firms between 2010 and 2018.