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New MBAs Should Start Their Careers in Frontier Markets

Harvard Business Review

Most Western executives have limited exposure to a frontier market until they are relatively senior in their careers. Spending time early in your career in a frontier market has a lasting impact on all your subsequent management decisions. Since 2013, BizCorps has placed top MBAs in Columbia and Kenya.

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Could a Four-Year-Old Do What Carl Icahn Does?

Harvard Business Review

I do have a 15-year-old who could not in a million years be bothered to send Apple’s Tim Cook a letter urging him to “meaningfully accelerate and increase the magnitude of share repurchases.” If necessary, write another letter, or a few tweets. billion in 2013, making him the fifth highest-paid fund manager in the land.

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What Apple Should Do with Its Massive Piles of Money

Harvard Business Review

In this letter, I’d like to explain more fully why I view the $51 billion already spent by Apple on open market (including accelerated) share repurchases under your leadership as a major misallocation of resources for both the company and the U.S. Yet these careers and the returns that they can generate are not guaranteed.