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Writing Your Résumé When Your Job Title Doesn’t Reflect Your Responsibilities

Harvard Business Review

This was Sasha’s summary: Department Administrator – Efficiency Expert – Staff Manager - Crisis Handler. Initiate whatever needed to ensure projects’ success. Described by faculty as “the Hope Diamond among the many gems on staff” when received 2016 and 2013 Staff Excellence Awards.

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Entrepreneurs Take On Manufacturing

Harvard Business Review

Examples of this trend include the Pebble , a Kickstarter-funded project that has now sold over one million smart watches (and which predated Google’s Android Wear smart watch and the Apple Watch). First, Kickstarter and other crowd-funding sources have opened up new options for initial finance.

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Scaling Up is a Problem of Both More and Less

Harvard Business Review

As an organization or project grows, and as its challenges change, it not only needs to recognize new priorities, it needs to delete or deemphasize old ones. Booth and Banks each invested $20,000 to start a company that could ship heavy home-improvement products more efficiently. Sales doubled in 2013.

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Africa’s Unique Opportunity to Promote Inclusive Growth

Harvard Business Review

.” Adesina competed for the AfDB presidency against several accomplished bankers and finance ministers. Later, as a project officer at the Rockefeller Foundation, he channeled resources to risk mitigation schemes that allowed banks to better serve small farmers.

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Why Those Guys Won the Economics Nobels

Harvard Business Review

He got his PhD at Yale under Shiller’s supervision in 1984, but since then he has also done a lot of work expanding on Fama’s ideas about risk and return, some of it co-authored with Fama’s son-in-law and University of Chicago finance colleague, John Cochrane. And that’s what these guys [the 2013 Nobel winners] did.

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Why Greece and Cyprus May Be Better Off Without the Euro

Harvard Business Review

Although the Eurozone’s 19 finance ministers recently threw Greece a much-needed economic lifeline , and the latter repaid the first of four loan installments that it owes the IMF in March 2015, there’s no long-term relief in sight for the troubled economy. in 2013; and by an estimated 2.8% in 2012; 5.4%

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