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Know Your History, Purpose and Direction

CoachStation

Understanding your purpose, what motivates you and most importantly using this knowledge to advantage is key to your success, both professionally and personally. in 2010 and started full time work in the business in 2012. I recognise it is not for everyone, however. How do you stay motivated to continue to do your best?

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No, the Best Science Students Aren’t Becoming Financiers

Harvard Business Review

Since the 2008 financial crisis, policy makers, professors, politicians, and others have expressed concern over America’s best and brightest minds electing to work in finance instead of pursuing potentially more socially valuable careers in science, medicine, and engineering. of MIT graduates taking jobs in finance after graduation.

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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.

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Midsize Cities Are Entrepreneurship’s Real Test

Harvard Business Review

Located in the heart of Colombia’s coffee region, in 2012 Manizales was a good place to grow up and get an education, and an even better place to retire, safe and surrounded by beautiful scenery. However, during their prime working years, most Manizalenos would move to Bogota (7 million people) or Medellin (2.5 strategic hires).

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Funders Can Give More than Money

Harvard Business Review

In 2012 the world's problems grew more complex, but America's top 400 charities saw very little growth in their resources to address them. A forecast issued late in the year by The Chronicle on Philanthropy projected their collective growth at just 1 percent.

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Big Companies Should Collaborate with Startups

Harvard Business Review

Campbell, the food company best known for its soups, is investing $125 million in a venture fund to help finance food startups, according to the Wall Street Journal. They share a motive: Growth is increasingly hard to come by, so large companies are increasingly looking to entrepreneurs to help them find it.

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What Big Companies Can Learn from the Success of the Unicorns

Harvard Business Review

billion, which has experienced incredible growth, with the total number of users having practically doubled each year since 2012. HelloFresh has also had impressive growth rates, with revenues reaching about $300 million in 2015, a huge increase from its $3 million in 2012. Financed by VC firms.