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What to Do When You’re Returning to a Company You Used to Work For

Harvard Business Review

Do: Project maturity by acting more formal and reserved in your first few weeks on the job to showcase how you’ve grown. “One of the most attractive aspects of returning was that the company had grown considerably while retaining most of the same senior leadership team I was familiar with,” she says.

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China Needs a New Generation of Dreamers (and New Dreams)

Harvard Business Review

Jack Ma, founder of Alibaba, the world’s largest online B2B global trading marketplace, is probably the most obvious choice. Searching for new ideas at Haier involves a competitive screening of business model proposals, open to all, out of which projects and project leaders are chosen. Can you name five?

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What Big Companies Can Learn from the Success of the Unicorns

Harvard Business Review

The term “unicorns,” coined, in 2013, by Aileen Lee, founder of Cowboy Ventures , is commonly used to identify venture-backed private companies valued at $1 billion or more. They attempted nearly 34 projects that failed before developing an iPhone app called Picaboo, which was subsequently rebranded as Snapchat.