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What Amazing Bosses Do Differently

Harvard Business Review

And when it comes to promotion, look past rigid competency models and career ladders for growth opportunities tailored to the ambitions, talents, and capacities of each person. A 2013 Society for Human Resource Management survey of managers in the U.S. Be available and accessible for one-on-one conversations. ” Just 2%!

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Research: Objective Performance Metrics Are Not Enough to Overcome Gender Bias

Harvard Business Review

” We collected data from a private online knowledge-sharing platform where buy-side (hedge fund, mutual fund) investment professionals (analysts, portfolio managers) share their investment recommendations to buy and sell a given security, along with the analysis supporting their position, with other members of this platform. .”

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

Harvard Business Review

billion in 2013, making him the fifth highest-paid fund manager in the land. And now, just after passing the average life expectancy for an American male , he seems to be in the midst of the best run of his career. But Icahn’s campaign to get eBay to spin off PayPal succeeded last month. Then Andreessen quit the board. Why’s that?

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Design Can Drive Exceptional Returns for Shareholders

Harvard Business Review

In Interbrand’s 2013 list of the World’s most valuable brands , Nike ranks 24 th , two slots up from the prior year and a 13% increase in value to $17.085 billion. Neither hedge fund managers, nor venture capitalists, nor mutual fund managers came anywhere close to these results. The returns in our Design Value Index were 2.28

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Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Pricing Lessons from the Rolling Stones

Harvard Business Review

Earlier this month the Rolling Stones kicked off a brief 2013 tour celebrating their 50th anniversary. Guitarist Keith Richards could casually drop in an interview that this may very well likely be the band''s last tour (the "hedge" in the wording is intentional). Or, as the band did at its opening gig in L.A. Marketing'

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The Great Leap Generation F Needs to Make

Harvard Business Review

We can’t get jobs—much less careers. It’s roughly one in five in Europe, and it’s getting worse , not better: youth unemployment rates reached record highs in 2013 in Greece ( 65% ) and Spain ( 56.1% ). Think again. Opportunities for young people in many nations are somewhere between LOL and nonexistent. The jobs we can get are awful.

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What It Will Take to Change the Culture of Wall Street

Harvard Business Review

As I reflected upon my career at Goldman Sachs, though, what stood out was the importance of its organizational structure. The dissertation became a book, titled What Happened to Goldman Sachs: An Insider’s Story of Organizational Drift and Its Unintended Consequences (HBR Press, 2013). I now have a Ph.D.