Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

When all attributes are equal in a competition, the company who gets the contract has a personal connection. Utilizing strengths and the contacts I had made to write the book, I scaled my practice to service women in business—the companies that support them and the companies that they own. Being timid leads nowhere.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2011

But executives can hurt their careers when they care about something too much. So I worked hard to instead steer him to policy-research assignments and, after the campaign ended, he turned that into a career. Angela is a brilliant graphic designer who worked in-house for big companies before striking out on her own.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2014

has the world’s most sophisticated system of financing radical ideas, and the results have been impressive, from Google to Facebook to Twitter. For example, many, if not most, of the Chinese products we buy every day are produced by German-made machinery, and the companies that make them are thriving. But the fairy tale that the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2016

Kauffman continues to champion the evidence that company age, not size, matters for job creation , and economists based at the OECD have affirmed this across the rich world, explaining that job creation “is driven to a large extent by the entry of new startups as well as higher growth rates of young firms that survive.”

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

— and if your company doesn’t already have a women’s network , start one. A working paper by Lily Fang, an associate professor of finance at INSEAD, and Sterling Huang, a Ph.D. This could suggest that women need to have more advantages to even get into finance in the first place.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Ask them if they apply much else from else from economics in their actual business careers, and you’re likely to hear “not much.”. and other governments to help them design these often complicated auctions and by telecommunications companies trying to figure out the best strategies for bidding. Here a few notable examples.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

This describes lots of modern digital enterprises — think Google and Airbnb — as well as most traditional media companies, and has been discussed a lot already in this week’s coverage. Then, in 2006, came The Theory of Corporate Finance — not a field Tirole had really been known for. Corporate finance? Since when?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2015

Meeting new people committed to their careers and explaining your own goals and passions to them can help renew your sense of mission and expose you to aspects of your job that you may not have previously appreciated. The key is to take small actions, and to do so deliberately. Or offer to mentor or teach new colleagues.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

I tried to get Greenspan to talk me for my November HBR article on economics and finance since the crisis , but he said he’d promised his publisher to keep mum until the book was out, which was too late for my purposes. It was the form in which the asset was financed. I finally did pay a visit to his office in D.C.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

What most companies (and economies) dont do is to stop doing — and thats a self-defeating problem. The catch is that most companies dont know how to reflect. When many companies reflect, they choose to use third-, fourth-, or fifth-hand data. Our doing/reflecting ratio is wildly out of whack.

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