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Keeping It Professional When You Work in a Family Business

Harvard Business Review

Case Study #1: Work elsewhere before climbing the family ladder. Toby Bozzutto’s father, Tom, never asked him if he wanted to work in the family real estate management company. “I had to get a master’s degree in real estate development. Completely meld work and family. It always ends badly.

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Early Lessons from India’s Demonetization Experiment

Harvard Business Review

As I said at the time, it was a case study in poor policy and even poorer execution. The existence of this parallel economy is a substantial drag on the Indian economy: According to recently released data , only about 1% of Indians paid taxes on their earnings in 2013. Overnight, 86% of cash in circulation was voided.

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India’s Botched War on Cash

Harvard Business Review

Supply chain transactions, real estate deals, and even weddings and funerals have been frozen. According to a 2013 Mastercard study , India was in the “Inception” category of both absolute level of cashlessness and the trajectory of change. Unfortunately, it is also the poor that bear the greatest burden.