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Glamorous Celebrity Deaths and Minimal Taxes in 2010 :: Women on.

Women on Business

No, I bring this up because as we watch the shows that close out the year, as face after face of the celebrities who passed away are projected on our television screens, as tributes and speeches are made about the talent, beauty, genius and uniqueness of a particular dead celebrity or entrepreneur—I am thinking about their estates.

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How the Next Generation Is Approaching Society’s Biggest Problems

Harvard Business Review

Finally, innovation in the financial markets are funding novel approaches to address these problems. Kahn, 38 years old, graduated from MIT in 1998 and Harvard Business School in 2003. How did Sal Khan finance his venture? First, Sal Khan could have continued in finance and made far more money than he does in a nonprofit.

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What’s That You’re Calling a Bubble?

Harvard Business Review

Fama is convinced that financial bubbles don’t exist, and until the dot-com era he was able to keep most of his colleagues in academic finance from even using the word “bubble.” They’ve also characterized the San Francisco Bay area’s real estate market over a far longer period. Economy Finance Managing uncertainty'

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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

At the time, though, we were just in search of a new approach to building a sustainable business in that critical but often difficult market. In fact, you could say (and many did) that our previous attempts had failed, in that we hadn’t established a sustained market position. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point.

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IT Doesn't Matter (to CEOs)

Harvard Business Review

Even after more than 20 years of implementations, a study by Panorama shows that 53% of ERP projects still run over budget, 61% take longer to complete than anticipated, and more than 27% fail to produce the positive ROI expected. The senior leadership needs to become literate in technology. Accountability.

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