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4 Failure Points that Can Undermine Your Business – Failure Point 4: Don’t Close Your Ears to Experts

Strategy Driven

I did not heed the advice of industry experts with superlative track records. In 2001, Ed earned Entrepreneur of the Year honors from Ernst & Young. Wyn has an MBA in finance and marketing from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a BA in economics from the University of California at Santa Barbara.

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The IRS Just Sent Me $160,000. Can I Keep It?

Harvard Business Review

Still, friends have offered conflicting advice on what I should do. Sure, I could probably contribute to economic growth more directly, by buying a better car (if they actually now make a better car than my 2001 Ford Windstar) and a bigger TV. I'm an editor, with an editor's salary. But again, the money's not really mine to spend.

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Hiring and Managing in Turbulent Times

Harvard Business Review

The second World War had left business slow and finances strained. Then came the September 11, 2001, attacks, followed by fully-fledged economic crises in the U.S. BCG’s advice was therefor similar to that of the HBS professors. But, with legions of great engineers streaming out of closing or soon-to-close U.S.

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What Alan Greenspan Has Learned Since 2008

Harvard Business Review

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. I was sitting there 18-and-a-half years, getting an extraordinary amount of advice from everybody under the sun.