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Front Line Leadership: The Keys To Managing Millenials, Part 1

Terry Starbucker

He also has previous leadership experience at other prominent companies. His primary focuses have been talent selection, employee engagement, and leadership development. Recently a survey was conducted that asked preteens about their long term career aspirations - the top three were sports star, pop star and actor.

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Private Equity Can Make Firms More Innovative

Harvard Business Review

If you ask someone who works in finance (as I had to) about PE and innovation, he or she will likely tell you that PE sponsors aren’t looking for the next big thing—they’re looking for companies that are dominant in a market, aren’t risky, and have a predictable and steady stream of cash to pay back debt.

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How Women of Color Get to Senior Management

Harvard Business Review

Developing a diverse leadership pipeline can benefit companies in all sectors. To increase diversity at senior executive levels, more must be known about one group in particular: women of color in midlevel leadership, who successfully developed and progressed beyond individual contributor and first-line management.

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The Global Rise of Female Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business Review

That''s 224 million women impacting the global economy — and this survey counts only 67 of the 188 countries recognized by the World Bank. Job creation: Beyond their own incomes, 112 million of the GEM surveyed entrepreneurs employ one or more people. That''s 72 million jobs just from this small sample. And in the U.S.,

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Scientists Working Outside Their Fields Are More Likely to Become Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business Review

In our research paper , which was published in Organization Science, we used survey data collected by the National Science Foundation and analyzed the responses from more than 25,000 U.S. We found that over 10% of the people in our sample reported working in a job field that did not match their field of education.

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What Private Equity Investors Think They Do for the Companies They Buy

Harvard Business Review

In a survey of 79 PE firms managing more than $750 billion in capital, we provide granular information on PE managers’ practices and how firms’ strategies relate to the characteristics of their founders. the notion that debt financing can be “cheap” at certain times). Our research seeks to fill that gap.

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Small and Young Businesses Are Especially Vulnerable to Extreme Weather

Harvard Business Review

To better understand businesses’ financial preparation for and management of disasters, my colleagues and I partnered with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to survey firms in the New York area one year after Hurricane Sandy. Firms applied for credit to finance recovery. Challenge risk financing conventions.